Razer Blade 14 stealth launched right now

Everyone wants desktop-replacement power, until they have to carry it on their shoulder for a trade show.  Razer has long focused on making the thinnest and most powerful laptops, constantly designing and redesigning in a chase for more efficient and convenient platforms. Their Razer Blade 16 and 18 are top-tier in the industry, but there’s one model that is conspicuously absent in the NVIDIA 5000-series configuration – the Razer Blade 14.  Until now.  

Recently we sat down with NVIDIA to talk about the improvements team Snek is bringing to their new iteration on the Razer Blade 14, and it turns out it’s far more than just a bump in GPU.  Sticking with team red for their Ryzen 9 processors, the upgrade to the 5060 laptop GPU is obvious, but the team also redesigned the cooling system, stacked up more RAM, and despite being even smaller than before, managed to add additional functionality. Let’s get under the hood: 

• Fully Redesigned: The new Razer Blade 14 is the thinnest 14-inch Razer gaming laptop, with a focus on portability and performance. Featuring Razer’s innovative thermal hood design for better heat management and airflow, the Blade 14 delivers maximum performance in a compact form factor.
• Powerful New Components: Equipped with up to an NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 5070 Laptop GPU and an AMD Ryzen™ AI 9 365 processor for unmatched gaming, productivity, and AI performance. 
• Stunning 3K OLED Display: The laptop boasts a 3K 120 Hz OLED display with a 0.2ms response time and NVIDIA G-SYNC®, providing a smooth and sharp visual experience.
• Expansive Connectivity and Superior Battery: Includes a large 72 Whr battery for up to 11 hours of on-screen time, UHS-II MicroSD card reader, two USB4™ Type-C ports, and a full-sized HDMI 2.1 port. The Blade 14 supports BT 5.4 and Wi-Fi 7 for fast and stable connections. 
• The Razer Blade Advantage: The Blade 14 is made from T6-grade aluminum and features a sand-blasted texture, anodized matte finish and focuses on environmental sustainability with plastic-free packaging.

Improvements across the board, let’s start at the bottom and work up.  Razer has long-used the single block of anodized aluminum, but this new 14” laptop is just 15.7mm at its slimmest point, with the tiny bump in size for the new thermal hood design.  This new design pushes ventilation and likely a fresh application of thermal pads to where they’d matter most – over the CPU and GPU.  This slimming equates to a whopping 11% reduction in size, making it the world’s thinnest laptop.  It’s also again 11% further reduced in weight, down from 4.05 lbs in previous gen to 3.59 lbs.  Pretty stellar engineering, given that the team didn’t compromise with a shift to plastic. 

I was surprised to see that the team, somehow, managed to squeeze in an extra port, despite the reduction in size.  I’d have much-preferred another USB4 Type-C port, but I’ll take a UHS-II MicroSD card reader as it goes nicely with devices like the ever-popular Osmo Pocket 3.  That brings the device to two USB-C ports, a full-sized HDMI 2.1 port, and the aforementioned UHS-II MicroSD card reader, backed by Bluetooth 5.4 and Wi-Fi 7 for connectivity – impressive, given that they also kept the same 72 Watt-hour battery as its larger brethren.  

The Razer Blade 14 is paired up with an RTX 5060 and 5070 laptop GPU.  This component drives the 3K display, which thankfully moves to an OLED at 3K resolution and 120 Hz (that’s roughly 2880x1800, for those playing the home game), and at 120 Hz and a 0.2ms response time.  It should make for a very crispy display with gorgeous color reproduction.   

Also under the hood is the AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 processor.  This pairs up team Red’s latest laptop CPU with 10 cores and 20 threads, clocking in at up to 5.0 Ghz.  This can be paired with either 16, 32, or 64 GB of LPDDR5X memory clocking in at 8000 MHz.  The CPU and GPU will deliver up to 115 W TGP in the 5070 model (That’s 100W + 15W dynamic boost), which should be a good balance of power versus weight.  It’s not going to replace your desktop but it should give you plenty of power for on-site work or a touch of gaming. 

Naturally, all the usual things you’d expect in a Razer device are present and accounted for.  Vapor chamber cooling, per-key RGB, six pre-tuned speakers, solid battery life, etc. are present and accounted for.  Reviews should drop soon on the devices, which are priced starting at $2299 and shipping today, so it won’t be long before we see what it’s capable of.  I will say this, however, the fact that it weighs about as much as my Steamdeck makes it pretty compelling. 

Let us know down in the comments - do you use ultra-portables like the Razer Blade 14, or are you rocking out something more powerful on the go?  One thing is for sure – there’s never been a better time for mobile gaming than right now.  

Razer ships a 14”, 16”, and 18” model of their Blade series, and you can configure one of your own at Razer.com.