Razer Blade 16 announced at CES 2025 with an Nvidia RTX 5090 GPU – but Intel has been dumped
- Razer Blade 16 unveiled at CES 2025
- Comes with the latest Nvidia RTX 50 series laptop GPUs
- First Razer Blade for AMD, not Intel
At CES 2025, the massive technology show currently taking place in Las Vegas, Razer just announced the thinnest gaming laptop the company has ever made: the new Razer Blade 16.
I’ve always loved Razer’s Blade laptops because they helped challenge the idea that powerful gaming laptops have to be big and bulky. Instead, they’re thin, light and stylish, and the new Blade 16 looks to go one step further with a new design that’s just 0.59 inches at its thinnest point.
The biggest problem with ultra-thin gaming laptops is that the powerful components inside need to be kept cool, and that means they need a lot of airflow and fans, which can’t fit in slim cases.
However, the Razer Blade 16 now comes with a new vapor chamber cooling system that covers more of the motherboard. This comes with a dual fan design and 0.05mm exhausts, ensuring components are cooled and the warm air produced by the components is expelled, while allowing Razer to make the overall size of the laptop as thin as possible.
Big power, small size
The fact that the new Razer Blade 16 is so thin is especially impressive considering that it’s packed with incredibly powerful hardware. This includes a QHD+ 240Hz OLED display, plus an all-new keyboard (including the Copilot key, if anyone is desperate to open Windows 11’s AI app).
Most importantly (for a gaming laptop) it comes with Nvidia’s just-announced RTX 50 series laptop GPUs, with up to an RTX 5090 with 24GB of GDDR7 VRAM and up to 155W of power. This means you get an incredibly capable gaming laptop that can run the latest games for years to come – and that can also take advantage of new developments such as DLSS 4.
The new Razer Blade 16 also brings a big change to the product line, as for the first time it won’t be powered by an Intel processor, but will feature the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370. This is a huge step for AMD, and a big step forward. A blow for Intel, which has been suffering a series of such blows for some time.
Does this mean Razer’s love affair with Intel is coming to an end? If that were the case, it would be a big problem for Team Blue, which has had a difficult twelve months. That probably won’t be the case as I’m sure there will be future Razer products with Intel CPUs, but if we’re trying to make the thinnest gaming laptop possible it’s understandable that Razer might feel the need to go with a chip that offers many possibilities. power without producing too much heat, hence the move to AMD, as Intel struggles to keep its chips cool while performing at maximum capacity.
It’s certainly not what the company needs right now, but the new Razer Blade 16 is shaping up to be an incredible device. Will it make our way into our best gaming laptops list when it launches in the coming months (we’re only told it will be available in the first quarter of 2025)? You’ll have to wait for our full review to find out, but there’s one thing you can be sure of: this is going to be a pretty expensive laptop. It’s better to start saving now.
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