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Razer Blade 15 (2021)
from £1900 / razer.com
BLADE FUNNER
gaming, and even more impressive
when you’re getting that kind of
graphical output from a laptop that
could pass for something you’d
whip out for note-taking.OLet’s ask the panel
If you want the most portable
Blade you’ll be going for the one
with a 15in display, but there’s also
a 17in option. As for configuring
that panel, well, you have options.
The headline is what Razer is
calling the world’s first 1080p
display with a 360Hz refresh rate,
which affords you a 2ms response
time. For fast-paced games that
demand quick reactions, this is
quite exciting. But the Advancedmodel also offers a 1440p/240Hz
option, or a more casual 4K OLED
with a 60Hz refresh rate, while the
1440p QHD configuration also has
G-Sync tech for variable refresh
rates. Like we said, options.OIt’s a lot to process
Of course, none of the whizzbang
screen stuff will matter much if the
Blade isn’t powerful enough to run
the chuffing games... but there’s
no need to worry about that, with
the Blade 15 Advanced packing
a 10th-gen Intel Core i7 with eight
cores and up to 32GB of DDR
RAM, which can be upgraded to
64GB. Whatever happened to just
playing Lemmings?Razer’s compact gaming
machine doesn’t look very
different, but it’s all kicking
off under the hood...
OGraphics content warning
The latest Blade is one of the
many flagship gaming laptops
that will now ship with one of
Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 30 Series
GPUs, a version of the stonkingly
powerful chips that desktop
gamers have been enjoying for
a while now. This means improved
efficiency, zippier performance
and easily enough power to
handle ray-tracing in games
like Cyberpunk 2077. It’s a pretty
significant step up for on-the-go
RTX 30 SERIES
GRAPHICS
MEAN MORE
ZIP AND EASILY
ENOUGH
POWER FOR
RAY-TRACING
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