quite a bit in producing some
incredibly smooth gameplay in the
latest games that support Nvidia’s
ray tracing dynamic lighting tech.
Both Battlefield 5 and Metro Exodus
play with nary a hiccup at Ultra
settings and with ray tracing active.Battery life
One of the biggest surprises is the
Blade’s battery life. Using the same
80Whr lithium ion battery as last
year, Razer has achieved an 87
percent improvement in its PCMark
8 Battery Life score, lasting three
hours and 54 minutes.
Likewise, the laptop lasted 98
percent longer in our Full HD video
test at five hours and 28 minutes.
These numbers bring the Blade
closer into line with competing thin
and light gaming laptops.
While you shouldn’t expect to
see those numbers while gaming
on battery, you are looking at a
laptop that can last long enough to
get real some work done on the go.Summary
The 2019 Blade is, by far, Razer’s
most improved gaming laptop yet.
Both raw graphical performance
and, surprisingly, battery life are
massively improved here.
It may be egregiously priced, but
the 2019 Razer Blade is also one of
the most complete gaming laptop
packages around, but every penny
you spend repays you double- with pleasure. Q
The 2019 Razer Blade may be
expensive, but it delivers
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Lastly, we’re glad to see Razer
finally bring Windows Hello facial
recognition to its Blade webcam.
Unfortunately, it’s not the fastest or
most elegant implementation of
the feature, being a little slower
than other flagship laptops we’ve
tested and blasting a garish red
light in our faces while scanning.
Display
Razer’s nailed it all over again with
the Blade’s display... because it’s
the same one as last year. That’s no
bad thing. With a matte coating
that’s surprisingly effective at
deflecting glare, this screen may
only be 1080p, but it certainly
makes the most of it.
Much of this comes down to the
screen’s 144Hz refresh rate, which
smooths out animations and
motion by outpacing the frame
rates that the GPU inside is capable
of. This is the best scenario for
Nvidia’s new ray tracing and deep
learning supersampling (DLSS)
techniques for rendering lighting in
games, with dips in frame rate due
to these intense features somewhat
being buoyed by this refresh rate.
Again, the 100 percent sRGB
colour gamut delivers impressive
accuracy and vibrancy. The screen
calibration – done by Razer on the
assembly line – helps here, too.
With this laptop costing almost
£3K+, you’d expect excellent
peformance with both games and
everyday tasks. The 2019 Blade
doesn’t disappoint.
Frame rates in Tota l Wa r :
Warhammer II at Ultra settings
increased by 22 percent over last
year’s model, whereas 3DMark Time
Spy results saw an impressive 45percent boost.
Of course, the straight processor
performance isn’t going to change
much year over year, as this laptop
uses the exact same Intel processor
as before. That’s no major issue, as
the hexa-core processor is more
than equipped enough to deal with
advanced workflows, like video
encoding and other intense tasks.
At this level of power, the Blade
easily works as both a creative pro
workstation and a gaming PC, but
it’s the machine’s Thunderbolt 3
and DisplayPort connectivity that
drive this point home. Even if this
version of the laptop doesn’t have a
4K display, it can drive one via
either option – or two with both.
As we’ve said before, the just-fine
1080p display helps the laptop“At this level of power, the Blade easily works as
both a creative pro workstation and a gaming PC”
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KEYFEATURES
Razer Blade 2019
Supplier http://www.razer.com/
CPU 2.2GHz Intel Core i7-8750H (hexa-
core, 9MB cache, up to 4.10GHz)
Graphics Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 (8GB
GDDR6; MaxQ); Intel UHD Graphics 630
RAM 16GB DDR4 (2,667MHz)
Display 15.6-inch FHD matte (1,920 x
1,080, 144Hz, IPS, 100% sRGB)
Storage 512GB SSD (NVMe PCIe 3.0 x4)
Connectivity Intel Wireless-AC 9560
(802.11ac); Bluetooth 5.0; 1x Thunderbolt
3; 3x USB 3.1; 1x mini DisplayPort 1.4; 1x
HDMI 2.0; 3.5mm headphone socket
Camera HD webcam with Windows
Hello (1MP; 720p)
Weight 2.10kg
Size 355x235x17.8mm