Razer Blade 14 Black Gaming Laptop, Ryzen 9-5900HX, 16GB RAM, 1TB M.2 PCIE SSD, 14inch QHD 165Hz, GeForce RTX 3080, WiFi 6E, BT 5.2, HD IR Webcam, 1.78kg, Win10 Home, 1x HDMI 2.1 Port, 2x USB-C Ports, 2x USB 3.2 Ports, Per key RGB Powered by Razer Chroma Backlit Keyboard
TGP = 100w
RRP was $4999 when released.
plus it cannot be upgraded makes it even more insulting haha
the engineering is what you're paying for. How many laptops this thin can fit a 3080? 14" at that, not 15 or 17.
So, it's good engineering to skimp on RAM? Do you think with the great engineering it might make it very attractive if you sell it with 32GB of RAM instead of 16GB? I mean would that not be good engineering and smart design?
the difference in RAM would not have added or subtracted much from the $5k figure. RAM is relatively cheap compared to engineering. See if they offer a higher SKU. You might add $200.
It’s a 100w 3080 8gb. Yes it’s pretty much the only 14’ laptop with a 3080. But other brands don’t make it because it doesn’t make sense as is a consumer trap making you pay more for less performance. A 100w 3080 8gb is a selling gimmick as its much worse than a full powered 3060 or 3070. Compared to the 100w 3070. You would expect low single digits of performance increase for an extra 1000$
If engineering if what you want to pay a premium for. The ROG x13 flow is a much better option. It’s a more compact option at only 13’, foldable, packs an 5980hs and 1650 inside. Before you say the gpu is much worse, it is bundled with an external 150w 3080 ‘egpu’. And compared to a traditional egpu, it’s very tiny, and uses a specially designed port that runs through pcie lanes directly connected to the cpu. Making it much faster than an traditional egpu through thunderbolt setup. Best thing? It cost the same as this on a sale.
Sorry but it is not an engineering feat to pack a 1650 into a 13" chasis. Whatever comes externally you can add yourself. That ROG x13 though external gpu though, I'm pretty sure it has a proprietary connectors, severely limiting its usefulness if you want to either use a different egpu or if you want to use that egpu on a different laptop.
If they sold the laptop separately from the egpu, I would not pay anywhere close to this price for the laptop on its own. Addons are not an engineering feat. If you are paying the same price as this, it's because you're getting a bonus egpu. If they were able to pack in that 150w 3080 into the 13" chasis, I would pay $6000 for it, because literally no one else has been able to achieve it.
@lostn: If an top end 150w 3080 16gb egpu that combines the power of what is essentially an thunderbolt dock with hdmi, dp, 4x usb 3.2, dc combo jack, sd card reader and rj 45 in one tiny box that measures only 20x16x3cm is not an enginneering feat for you. Then I dont know what to say. Yes it takes a special connector and port, but is there any other connector standards that can take this kind of data transfer rates? No, not really.
If you are so focused on packing a powerful gpu 'inside' the laptop, I failed to see how is the blade 14 any worth mentioning, sure it have a 3080, but its an 100w 3080, its literally no more diffifcult than packing an 100w 3060 or 3070 since thats all the cooling solution the laptop can handle and whether the gpu is a 3060 or a 3080 itself does not complex the engineering in any way or form.
For all your talk about 'engineering feat' I find it hard to believe that you can not appreciate the flow x13's engineering at all. It's literally 1.3kg a whole 600g lighter than the razer blade, is the size and weight of a surface book/yoga and can be used just like a convertible 2 in 1 yet have much more beefier specs.
Only 100W? This might not even be better than the 1080.
not a deal
Is this LHR 3080?
AFAIK mobile GPUs are not LHR but have power limits (TGP).
I wish I was rich.
Im sorry I had to neg but this is not a deal, not even gonna talk about its pitful 85w+15w 3080 with 8gb vram-at least you can justify that with the small form factor, having 16gb ram really does not have anything justification going for it, when it have a '5k' rrp. It literally have same specs-apart from the gpu-as the 3070 razer blade 14, but cost more than 1k extra for no more than single digits of gpu performance increase.
Speaking of RRP, if you have the cash to throw at this, you can afford to wait for CES2022-its literally in 2 days and 12th gen/6000 series + 30 series refresh will come out soon. As per the usual the higher end stuff will be released first so you dont have to wait long for a better machine than this. Sure, they wont have the discount like this one, but the older stuff will just get cheaper by time if you dont want to pay for the performance gains of newer machines.
Many of these laptop 3080s struggle to reach 60fps on AAA titles. MobileTech’s AW review showed only sub 60 fps on Cyberpunk on a 3080 at full settings.
Cyberpunk is a steaming pile of unoptimised shit. Nothing can run that properly.
what an impressive spec for a 14"
Plus whats the chance within 2 years, this will end up with a bloat battery?
My Razer Blade 14" had battery bloat after 2.5 yrs of ownership. Razer refused to fix the issue as it was outside of warranty, and ACL threats were shrugged off - the bloat also resulted in the trackpad malfunctioning so the system had some serious issues after 2 years of ownership. I wouldn't recommend the brand.
As expected from Razer, and this laptop asking for almost $3800 ! Better just stick with Lenovo or even Alienware will be much better choice and save a lot of $$$ too.
I removed the internal battery altogether otherwise my chassis would have been toast (was starting to bulge to the point of splitting).
That and BEFORE I HAD THAT MODEL, shipping back a unit 3 times because of freezing issues and they wouldn't give me a refund after all that only a credit then I went for this model that cost $1100 more. I still get occasional blue screens.
Asus before this and Dell after no issues at all.
I also say stay away from this brand.
16GB of RAM on a $5000 system. Razer is not thinking straight.