The Razer Blade 15 (2021) Review: Amped Up With Ampere

The authentic Razer Blade examined the laptop computer waters for an organization extra identified for gaming peripherals akin to keyboards and mice, however the Blade lineup has remodeled into an entire gaming laptop computer suite. Today we’re having a look at our first Razer Blade laptop computer in a few generations, and for 2021, Razer has refreshed with the most recent NVIDIA Ampere-based laptop computer GPUs which ought to carry a few good bump in efficiency in any respect resolutions.

With Razer Blade laptops within the 13-inch, 15-inch, and 17-inch sizes, Razer affords a laptop computer that ought to match any life-style, and the corporate has now moved into productivity-focused designs such because the Razer Book as nicely. Razer has all the time been a premium model, and though they’ve dipped their toes into constructing extra inexpensive choices, the Blade lineup is definitely on the premium finish of the spectrum for pricing.

For their 2021 lineup, Razer is providing two fundamental fashions of the Blade 15, every with totally different choices accessible: the Razer Blade 15 Base mannequin, and the Blade 15 Advanced mannequin. The Base mannequin comes with a Core i7-10750H hex-core processor, 16 GB of DDR4 in dual-channel, and decisions of both a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 or RTX 3070 laptop computer GPU. The Advanced mannequin, in flip, bumps the CPU as much as the octo-core i7-10875H, and decisions of an RTX 3070, or RTX 3080 with 8/16 GB of VRAM. Each mannequin can accommodate as much as 64 GB of reminiscence through SO-DIMMs, and every comes with one M.2 SSD plus room for an additional.

Each mannequin additionally affords totally different show decisions. The Base mannequin begins with a 1920×1080 IPS panel with a 144 Hz most refresh price, and sRGB gamut assist. For people who need some extra pixels of their show, there may be additionally a 2560×1440 165 Hz choice with a P3-D65 gamut. The Advanced mannequin affords a 1920×1080 360 Hz sRGB panel as the usual choice, bumps the QHD choice up a 240 Hz G-SYNC sRGB panel, and likewise affords a UHD decision OLED, which caps out at 60 Hz whereas overlaying the P3-D65 gamut.

For this assessment, Razer despatched us the Blade 15 Base mannequin with the RTX 3070 laptop computer GPU and the QHD 165 Hz panel. Razer does assist NVIDIA’s Optimus know-how on the Blade 15, however the newer Advanced Optimus tech can solely be discovered on the QHD model of the Advanced mannequin, that means there isn’t any G-SYNC assist on the remainder of the lineup.