Razer Blade 16 (2025) review: ultra settings on an ultra-thin laptop for an ultra-high price

The Blade 16 remains 1 of the astir stylish gaming laptops, particularly if your benignant is all-black with a flash of RGB lights.

Few gaming laptops basal retired similar Razer’s Blades. They’ve agelong been the gaming alternate to the MacBook Pro: sleek, powerful, and grown-up looking, without the bulk and garish stylings of astir gaming laptops. But cramming almighty graphics cards into slim confines means Blade laptops person a inclination to run hot, get loud, and transportation ridiculous price tags.

So you’d beryllium excused for feeling anxious that the 2025 Blade 16, which offers Nvidia’s astir almighty laptop GPU, is 30 percent thinner and importantly lighter than its predecessor. In my archetypal testing, it lone seemed a small much powerful than the 4090 Blade it replaces.

But present I’ve utilized it overmuch much extensively. I’ve adjacent tested it against cheaper, thicker RTX 5080 laptops with much cooling capacity, which are the amended bargain if you’re focused squarely connected gaming performance. However, thing rather matches the Blade 16’s equilibrium of top-end specs, bladed chassis with all-black aesthetics, and a beauteous OLED surface I’d happily look astatine each day.

The 2025 Blade 16 is conscionable 0.69 inches astatine its thickest (0.59 inches astatine the front) and weighs 4.6 pounds. That isn’t conscionable thinner and lighter than past year’s 0.87-inch / …

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