Best Razer laptops 2024

The latest Razer Blade 16 (2024) is a classy laptop and one of the company’s highest performers right now. But you’ll have to pay for the premium build quality, aluminum chassis, and OLED screen. When testing, we thought the display was fantastic, with deep blacks, high contrast, and vivid colors to make gameplay a gorgeous experience.

The laptop houses some serious specs, including a 24-core Intel Core i9 14900HX CPU – arguably overkill for gaming, but suitable for heavily multi-threaded work such as video encoding. You choose what GPU you want during purchase, and the GeForce RTX 4070 model held up well in our testing, even managing to play Cyberpunk 2077 at 74fps with the Ultra ray tracing preset at 2,560 x 1,600.

So what about the downsides? This 2024 version is more expensive than the Blade 16 (2023), the screen can be too reflective under bright light, and it makes substantial fan noise when working hard. But it’s the most stylish and powerful Razer gaming laptop if you have the budget and want the very best.

Read our Razer Blade 16 (2024) review.

If you’re looking for a powerful desktop replacement, the Razer Blade 18 is the best that money can buy. It’s surprisingly svelte (for 18 inches), but at 6.8 lbs you’re not likely to be carrying it much further than your house.

Despite excelling in its 64GB maximum RAM and graphics, the Blade 18 lacks the Mini LED technology of competitors like the Acer Predator Helios 18. That’s not going to affect gameplay or graphics directly, as the 4090 will handle the most demanding games you can throw at it. Similarly to the Blade 16, the display has a 16:10 aspect ratio so there is absolutely no wasted space.

Despite its size, the Blade 18 curiously doesn’t have a numpad which is commonplace amongst other 17 and 18-inch laptops. If you need performance, and a lot of it – you can’t do any better than the Razer Blade 18 in a semi-portable form factor.

Esports titles demand that players have high refresh rates to command an edge over others. The Blade 15 FHD 360Hz has Razer’s fastest panel and is well-optimized for titles like Counter-Strike, Apex Legends, and Valorant.

There is some wasted space at the bottom of the screen, as it’s a 16:9 panel as opposed to the latest generation of 16:10, but the high refresh rate is the standout feature here.

At 1080p, you might struggle a little to parse some details in the distance but again it’s the frames that are important here. It’s worth considering though and you may be better served with a 240Hz panel that is QHD.

If you want the taller display but don’t need the full power of the RTX 4080, the Razer Blade 16 with the RTX 4070 should serve you very well. Make no mistake, the 4070 is still a very capable card and will provide years of valuable service seeing as more and more titles are adopting technologies such as DLSS 2 and DLSS 3, the latter coming especially in clutch in CPU bound titles and the Crysis’ of the future come out.

We really cannot gush enough about how transformative 16:10 aspect ratio displays are, so we are going to again – it is truly unbelievable how much bigger a display feels when it fills in the bottom chin and lets you see more of everything, be it a sniper on the roof or extra rows of code.

The 4070 only has 8GB of VRAM available to it, which is a downside for running games that are either unoptimized. With the aforementioned DLSS and optimized settings, this laptop should see you through at least a few years of play, but it is certainly worth considering.

In the realm of reason, great deals can be had and the Razer Blade 17 is a good option for those who need extra screen real estate without entirely breaking the bank. Games and text alike will look crisp and sharp on the QHD panel with beautifully smooth motion owing to the 240Hz refresh rate.

Though not our absolute top pick for esports, the Blade 17 will shine here too as the 3070 Ti will easily max out the display with the right settings and while it may not do so in the latest demanding titles, G-Sync will save the day and shield us from any screen-tearing no matter the refresh rate.

Being larger than its siblings – the Blade 17 has an absolute plethora of useful ports on offer such as the two Thunderbolt 4 ports which provide Display Port functionality allowing for multiple displays for immersive gaming or massive productivity potential.

Being last-gen though we have to make do with some concessions such as the 16:9 screen meaning we will have a plastic chin under our display – though at 17 inches there is still plenty of space. The 3070 Ti also isn’t able to make use of DLSS 3 frame generation but DLSS 2 should keep you going for a good few years to come – especially when paired with sensible optimized settings.

The Razer Blade 14 is a pocket rocket, equipped with up to a whopping 3080 Ti. The version we have included here will be future-proofed for many years to come, owing to the graphical performance of the card and the 16GB of VRAM – which is only seen in the 4090 elsewhere in the Nvidia mobile stack.

The AMD Ryzen 6900HX is a beat of a CPU, which can chew through almost anything you throw at it, especially multithreaded tasks which Ryzen CPUs have been known to excel at for years now. The 6900HX also has a very capable iGPU in the form of the AMD Radeon 680M which is more powerful than what the Steam Deck offers. Whilst you might not be playing Cyperbunk 2077 with Overdrive ray tracing, it’s very handy for when you want to play some lighter or older games away from the wall or just to save on the energy bill.

The 680M is more than enough to power the display when watching YouTube and doing tasks such as light photo editing too so battery life is very good for a gaming laptop.

The dreaded 16:9 aspect ratio rears its ugly head and given the smaller screen, the chin effect is more pronounced here. The latest generation of the Blade 14 does have a 16:10 display but it is much more expensive and only tops out at a 4070 which only has 8GB of VRAM.

The Razer Blade Base 15 is proving to be a great value option now that they have been coming down in price in the wake of the new generation of Blades. The RTX 3060 is still a capable little card if you get your settings dialed in, and will serve you extremely well if you stick to older games or well-optimized esports titles.

The QHD 240Hz display and G-Sync ensure that games are running smoothly, while the DLSS 2 helps to eke out more performance as more demanding titles are released. CPU-wise, the i7-12800H is a reasonable inclusion at this price point. If you’re after a CPU performance champ for work and only want to play a few games in the evening then the balance between the 12800H and 3060 is ideal.

To increase the longevity of the Razer Blade Base 15 3060, you can upgrade the RAM up to 64GB to help draw out some extra performance too. One point of concern though is the 6GB of VRAM, and how viable it is at 1440P long-term. With DLSS, this is less of a problem, but soon you might feel like you are running out of performance.