Razer Blade 16 (2025) Review: Slim yet Powerful

The keyboard has gotten a fewer noteworthy changes. The keys person a 1.5 mm question distance, giving them a tactile and mechanical feel. The actuation feels heavy, though I similar the precision it adds. Razer has besides added 5 macro keys connected the close underneath the powerfulness fastener and “dual-LED” RGB backlighting. That means pressing and holding the Function oregon Shift keys volition airy up the secondary relation of each cardinal that has one. It’s superfluous, yes, but I person to admit it’s neat. The expansive, solid touchpad is large arsenic well. I’ve had problems successful the past with misclicks and thenar rejection, but that’s each been ironed out.

Razer utilized to connection 2 show options, 1 of which was a 4K panel, but present there’s conscionable 1 option: an OLED 240-Hz surface with a 2,560 x 1,600-pixel resolution. Interestingly, with the RTX 5090 onboard, this feels similar the archetypal show that could nutrient amended framework rates astatine that precocious resolution.

The OLED sheet is fantastic successful presumption of representation quality. It’s awesome successful presumption of colour saturation (100 percent sRGB, 94 percent AdobeRGB) and colour accuracy (Delta-E of 0.42). At a max of 381 nits, it’s not the brightest show successful the world, but that’s what you get with OLED. The mini-LED displays Razer formerly offered were considerably brighter some successful SDR and HDR, but the precocious opposition and accelerated effect times of OLED marque it unbeatable. I haven’t tested it myself, but the 2025 mentation of the ROG Zephyrus G16 claims to deed 500 nits with its OLED panel.

My lone ailment with the Blade 16’s surface is it’s highly glossy. I often recovered myself expanding the brightness to flooded my ain reflection. It tin beryllium distracting successful the incorrect lighting.

The six-speaker audio strategy is decent. It bests astir different gaming laptops connected the market, adjacent providing immoderate bass to the mix, bully capable for watching YouTube videos oregon adjacent a movie. It’s inactive not competitory with Apple's MacBook Pro. And the 1080p webcam suffices for video calls, but it won’t impressment your coworkers. Even successful decent lighting, I recovered the representation beauteous noisy.

Multi-Frame Generation

My configuration of the Razer Blade 16 has an RTX 5090 Laptop GPU inside, paired with an AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370. That’ll outgo you a chill $4,500. You work that right. Part of that sky-high terms comes from being forced to opt for 32 GB of RAM and 2 TB of storage. Razer isn’t selling a 16 GB exemplary astatine each anymore. The starting configuration starts astatine $3,000, with the Ryzen AI 9 365, RTX 5070 Ti, 32GB of RAM, and 1TB of storage. The Blade bid has ne'er been cheap, but that terms is pugnacious to swallow. You tin inactive bargain older models, but adjacent those commencement astatine $2,400.

This is besides the archetypal clip Razer has exclusively offered lone AMD for the CPU connected the Blade 16. That feels similar a large deal. No 1 tin reason anymore that Intel is the much premium option. It’s not arsenic beefy arsenic the “desktop replacement” spot utilized successful past year’s Intel model, but there’s plentifulness of powerfulness present for your gaming needs.