Unsurprisingly, Razer is adopting the latest generation of components for its Razer Blades at CES 2023. Whether it’s the most powerful 13th Gen Intel or the latest Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 cards, the power will be there.
Did you really think Razer only had a pillow that duplicates a speaker to offer at CES 2023? Even though Intel, one of its historical partners, has unveiled its latest generation of processors for PC gamers? It’s bad to know them, after all! Not “For Gamers By Gamers” wants!
The Razer Blade expands to 18 inches
Did you like the Razer Blade 17? You will love the Razer Blade 18, which effectively takes the place of its very slightly smaller sibling. The manufacturer is even very proud to take its first step into this diagonal category, which is not the busiest on the market, but is far from being abandoned. Here, we are clearly in front of a portable PC seeking to completely replace a desktop PC traditional.
The Razer Blade 18 is equipped with a IPS LCD panel of 18 inches supporting a definition 2560×1600 QuadHD+ pixels, since this is a 16:10 aspect ratio. Its NVIDIA G-Sync labeled refresh rate is 240Hzand the screen promises to provide a maximum brightness of 500 cd/m² in addition to cover 100% DCI-P3 space. The rest is usual for the manufacturer, with a very thin unibody design and a strong shimmering Chroma keyboard.
It is obviously on the configuration that we expect the most. Here, you will profit whatever the price of the Intel Core i9-13950HX freshly unveiled by Intel, coupled with a GPU of your choice between the RTX 4060 and up to the RTX 4090 from Nvidia. In short, we simply have the absolute best on the market coupled with 32 GB of DDR5-5600 RAM accessible for maintenance. Razer adds a 5 Mpix webcamTHX certified speakers and its own cooling system of course.
The Razer Blade 18 will be available in the first quarter of 2023 from $2899.99. The prices and the release date in France have not yet been communicated to us.
The 2023 Razer Blade 16 is no slouch
If you thought the previous configuration was made possible by the size of the device, think again. The Razer Blade 16 is also powered by theIntel Core i9-13950HX16 to 32 GB of DDR5-5600 RAM, and your preferred choice of Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 to RTX 4090. But it’s not really the highlight of the show for this configuration, which is all in all fairly agreed, keeping in mind the brand’s journey. We will pay particular attention to the heating of the device in our future test.
No, what is terribly interesting with this Razer Blade 16 is its screen. He is indeed equipped witha mini-LED panel which has a very important particularity: it can switch from one “Gamer” mode in Full HD+ definition native supporting a refresh rate of 240Hz at a “Creator” mode in UHD+ definition once again native supporting a refresh rate of 120 Hz. This panel HDR-capable is able to provide a rate of maximum brightness of 1000 cd/m² and still puts forward a response time of less than 3ms.
Yes: no rendering sacrifice to have one definition or the other. Here, you can spend your day creating on a 4K HDR compatible screen before spending your evening playing your favorite game with a panel optimized at 240Hz. An innovation that obviously has a costsince the Razer Blade 16 will be released during the first quarter of 2023 at a starting price of $2699.99. The prices and the release date in France will be communicated to us later. The relatively recently released Razer Blade 15 remains in the line-up as-is… perhaps awaiting a mid-term refresh.
