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- #SMALL GAMING LAPTOP ALUMINUM PORTABLE#
- #SMALL GAMING LAPTOP ALUMINUM WINDOWS#
Thankfully, if you find yourself craving better performance, it’s still possible to run games at 1080p and have them look great thanks to the slightly smaller screen.
#SMALL GAMING LAPTOP ALUMINUM WINDOWS#
Out of the box, icons on the desktop felt too small forcing me to increase scaling in Windows which doesn’t always translate well to individual apps. 1440p requires more graphical horsepower than FHD resulting in a moderate FPS drop in games. The added pixel density allows games to look more crisp and detailed, even on the Blade’s slightly smaller screen. The jump to 1440p has been long overdue for gaming laptops and is immediately noticeable in games. Each QHD model is rated to cover 100% of the DCI-P3 color space and the FHD version 100% of sRGB, making it a good fit for content creation.

The RTX 3060 version would struggle with 1440p gaming, so it ships with a 1080p IPS display running at 144Hz. Both the RTX 30 versions ship with 1440p high-refresh rate IPS screens clocked to 165Hz. Thankfully, Razer knows a thing or two about delivering excellent displays and has delivered an outstanding viewing experience.

Given the size of the laptop, the quality of the screen can make or break the experience. That said, pairing AMD graphics and processing can yield extremely competitive results for less money, so I would love to see Razer offer Radeon GPU configuration for an “all AMD” option. The RTX 3080 option is quite expensive but it’s the same card driving some of the highest-performance laptops on the market today, so it’s an expected premium to step up to that level of performance. The Blade 14 can be customized with either an RTX 3060 for $1799, RTX 3070 for $2199, or RTX 3080 for $2799, which our sample came equipped with. Razer pairs its high-powered CPU with equally impressive hardware throughout the machine and offers your choice of Nvidia 30-series graphics options. It’s also important to note that this CPU includes TPM 2.0 and should have no problem updating to Windows 11 later this year. For a compact laptop like the Blade 14, both of those are key considerations that impact both performance and longevity. The 5900HX is built on AMD’s Zen 3 architecture, which offers improved power efficiency for better battery life and less heat. The Blade 14 features a Ryzen 9 5900HX CPU, complete with 8-cores and 16-threads, perfect to expand beyond gaming into streaming and working with creative apps like Adobe Premiere Pro. It’s Razer’s first laptop to feature an AMD Ryzen CPU and it pulled no punches with the collaboration. It’s been a number of years since we’ve seen a 14-inch Blade laptop and this year’s model returns with a bang.
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#SMALL GAMING LAPTOP ALUMINUM PORTABLE#
The Razer Blade 14 is a machine built around portable power. Razer Blade 14 (2021) – Design and Features
