Razer Blade 14 (2024) review

pcgamer.com:

The Razer Blade 14 (2024) is a highly desirable gaming laptop. It's the sort-of laptop that feels almost like bragging to use openly in a public space. It's practically a status symbol. The competition hasn't been able to emit that same star quality. Yet Razer does face significantly sterner competition this year than it has ever before: namely from the ROG Zephyrus G14 (2024) and, to a lesser degree, the HP Omen Transcend 14. 

I'll be focusing on the more competitive Zephyrus G14 for comparison with the Blade 14 in this review. It's muscling in on Razer's airspace with a fantastic chassis design, premium materials and a gorgeous OLED screen—it feels more a laptop aimed at the high-end laptop market dominated by Razer today than the Transcend. More than that, however, I recently posted my Zephyrus G14 review, in which I look at a model of that laptop with nearly the same specifications as the Blade 14 before me now: an enviable combination of AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS and Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile.

So, why should you choose the Blade 14?

The obvious answer is for its performance. Razer is able to run the RTX 4070 within the Blade 14 at the maximum wattage available for the mobile GPU. That's 140 watts—a 115-watt base TGP plus the option for a 25-watt afterburner. That's significantly higher than the Zephyrus at 90 watts. That has a big impact on performance. On average the Blade 14 is 18% faster at 1080p and 13% faster at 1440p. 

CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS
GPU: Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 (140W)
Memory: 32GB DDR5-5600
Storage: 1TB NVMe SSD
Screen size: 14-inch IPS
Resolution: 2560 x 1600
Refresh rate: 240Hz
Battery: 68.1 Whr
Dimensions: 21.99 x 244  x 355 mm (0.87 x 9.61 x 13.98-inches)
Weight: 2.45 kg / 5.40 lbs
Price: $2,700 | £2,700

What's more is you'll feel an even bigger difference between the performance on the Blade 14 and the G14 at default settings, due to their different native resolutions. The Blade 14 comes with a 2560 x 1600 IPS display and the G14 a 2880 x