"Our reviewer Luke Larsen gave high marks to the 2025 revamp of the Razer Blade 16 (8/10, WIRED Recommends) largely thanks to its extremely thin footprint and excellent keyboard. Razer does a great job with little details, like the spacious glass touchpad that's nice and responsive, excellent fit and finish on the machined aluminum body, and the thin bezels that help the screen stand out. There's a reason the Razer Blade 16 recently moved to the top of our favorite gaming laptop list."
"The display varies depending on the version you choose. The 16-inch version that we reviewed has a 240Hz OLED screen that we really liked. with excellent contrast and color saturation, with a fast response time that made a big difference at those sky-high framerates. The larger Razer Blade has an IPS display instead of an OLED panel, but with a higher 3,840x2,400 resolution and the same 240Hz refresh rate."
"So what's the catch? In my opinion, the laptops that are discounted are a little awkward. For the Razer Blade 16, only the RTX 5060 and RTX 5070 versions are marked down, and both feature just 8GB of VRAM. We haven't had a chance to test out the mobile versions of these chips, but on the desktop end I found that little memory was a limiting factor for performance, especially at 1440p or higher."
Razer has reduced prices on several Razer Blade 16 and 18 configurations, generally around 14% off with some exclusions. The Razer Blade 16 received praise for its thin chassis, excellent keyboard, spacious glass touchpad, machined aluminum build, and thin bezels. Available 16-inch configurations include a 240Hz OLED panel with strong contrast, color saturation, and fast response; the 18-inch model uses an IPS panel at 3,840×2,400 and 240Hz. Discounted Blade 16 models are limited to RTX 5060 and RTX 5070 mobile GPUs with only 8GB VRAM, which may constrain performance at 1440p+. The RTX 5070 option upgrades RAM to 32GB.
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