The keyboard obtained some notable changes. The keys have a 1.5 mm travel distance, giving them a tactile and mechanical sensation. The actuation is heavy, although I like the precision it adds. Razer also added five macro keys on the right under the RVB “double LED” powerbag and backlight button. This means pressing and maintaining the function or shift keys will light the secondary function of each key that has one. It’s superfluous, yes, but I must admit that it is good. The vast glass touchpad is also great. I have had problems in the past with misdeeds and a palm rejection, but all of this was postponed.
Razer offered two display options, one of which was a 4K panel, but now there is only one option: a 240 Hz OLED screen with a resolution of 2,560 x 1,600 pixels. Interestingly, with the RTX 5090 on board, it looks like the first screen that could produce better image frequencies at this high resolution.
The OLED panel is fantastic in terms of image quality. It is impressive in terms of color saturation (100% SRGB, 94% Adubergb) and the precision of colors (Delta-E 0.42). At a maximum of 381 nits, this is not the brightest display in the world, but that’s what you get with OLED. The mini-affichages led by Razer previously offered were considerably brighter both in SDR and HDR, but the high contrast and the quick response times of the OLED make it unbeatable. I did not test it myself, but the 2025 version of the Rog Zephyrus G16 claims to have struck 500 nits with its OLED panel.
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My only complaint with the blade screen 16 is that it is extremely brilliant. I have often found myself increasing the brightness to overcome my own reflection. It can be distracting in bad lighting.
The six-speakers’ audio system is decent. At best, most of the other laptops of playing on the market, even by providing bass to the mixture, good enough to watch youtube videos or even a film. It is still not competitive with Apple’s MacBook Pro. And the 1080p webcam is enough for video calls, but that will not impress your colleagues. Even in decent lighting, I found the image quite noisy.
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My configuration of the RAZER 16 blade has a RTX 5090 laptop GPU inside, associated with an AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370. This will cost you $ 4,500. You read that right. Part of this sky price comes from the constraint of opting for 32 GB of RAM and 2 TB of storage. Razer no longer sells a 16 GB model. The starting configuration starts at $ 3,000, with the Ryzen AI 9 365, RTX 5070 TI, 32 GB of RAM and 1 TB of storage. The Blade series has never been cheap, but this price is difficult to swallow. You can always buy older models, but even those start at $ 2,400.
It is also the first time that Razer only has only offered DMA for the CPU on the blade 16. It is like a big problem. No one can say that Intel is the most premium option. It is not as strong as the “office replacement” chip used in the Intel model last year, but there is a lot of power here for your game needs.
