The Razer Blade 16 (2023) Review

**The Razer Blade 16: A Beast of a Laptop**

I was able to get my hands on the new Razer Blade 16, and let me tell you, it's a beast of a laptop. The first thing that struck me about this device is its quiet operation. Over 53 decibels here makes this one of the quietest gaming laptops I've seen at least when it's running full out in gaming, a lot of other devices tend to hang around 50 decibels in balanced and can almost hit 60 decibels in their highest power mode.

I put that into context for you because disc blade 16 is running its components it almost the same power as the chunky heavy MSI gt7710 that I looked at recently but it gets similar temperatures and it puts out much much less noise that just points towards some great engineering on Razer smart so kudos to you guys for that but does that lead to great performance well let's pause right here in cinebench to set the stage a bit since you'll see two results for the blade 16 balanced and boost both get some interesting results while balanced cuts the 3950hxes to just 51 Watts it's still able to match or even beat some of the fastest laptops from last year running at 90 Watts or more that really shows how fast rotter Lake really is even at such a low TDP setting. Boost on the other hand gets performance levels that are up there with this year's gt77 Titan and Way Way Beyond anything from 2022.

**Performance in Cinebench**

Now since single core performance is in power limited the blade ties the MSI here since both laptops allow their processors to hit maximum turbo speeds the other real world apps that Focus purely on CPU performance basically repeat the original cinebench multi-core result with the blade 16 almost matching the Titan when boost mode is turned on while balanced equalizes some of the fastest laptops from 2022. even longer tests that favor better cooling show how well razors manage to design this laptop since the blade offers different levels of performance with its given modes it's easy to choose a setting that best suits what you're actually doing rather than having a one-size-fits-all solution of course there are still some hiccups like Photoshop but if you look at all the results together it's pretty obvious this is a program limitation rather than a hardware issue on the other hand both Intel and Nvidia need to look a bit closer at their output performance in Adobe Premiere Pro I mean it's good like really good but it could be better when you consider how much horsepower these new laptops have.

**Gaming Performance**

I mean look at what this blade can do in DaVinci Resolve it isn't even closed guys this thing is just so much better than anything from last year since it can Flex nvidia's dual and Bank engines for Crazy Fast export times next up we have gaming performance at 1080P 1440p and 4K and for that we use the same two modes so boost and balanced as before the only difference is the CPU is in boost mode and the GPU is set to its highest setting which is high in synapse so let's roll the results foreign thank you foreign I think the conclusion for this blade 16 is going to be pretty easy

**The Conclusion**

I never thought I was going to compare this to something like the MSI gt77 Titan but guys this laptop gets 90 of the performance as that MSI beast in a laptop that's just smaller more portable and quieter which also happens to run cooler it's also got a massive 16 inch fast bright and color accurate display and the build quality is just one of the best as you can find for a gaming laptop now when you bring pricing into the equation it's a really expensive investment but the thing you got to realize is that you're not losing performance like what you did with the blade 15 that was roughly the same price in fact this laptop is a thousand dollars less than the gt77 Titan that we're showing in the benchmarks and in my books that just goes to show that the blade 16 is an overall Superior laptop in almost every possible way and look I know there's going to be a lot of hate for Razer out there but there's no denying that the Blazing scene is a freaking impressive device on almost every level they took pretty much all of our critique from previous blades in the past and they've improved this one in almost every way and the end result is just a great overall gaming laptop so on that note thanks so much for watching I hope you're able to take away everything that you needed to know about the new Razer Blade 16.

**The Future of Gaming Laptops**

I'm excited to take a look at some of the other offerings from Rog Acer and Dell those laptops are looking pretty good as well so it will be an interesting rest of the year I would peace out

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enso this is the new Razer Blade 16. it got until shiny new 13 gen Raptor like CPU and the new 40 series GPU from Nvidia we got an early preview of this laptop back at CES this year but we finally have one here at the studio to run our tests and share our experience with you guys IVs is probably going to set the Benchmark for being the fastest 16-inch gaming laptop on the market for 2023. Razer basically took all of our feedback from last year with the blade 15. tweak the chassis a little bit to add some features and gave it more power and it's awesome but there's catch and you probably guessed it the price the price you see Razer is only offering two skews of the blade 16. I have the base model that comes with a core I9 3950 HX with 32 threads 32 gigs of RAM a terabyte SSD and RTX 4080 with 12 gigs of vram and a 16 inch Quad HD 240Hz display and it costs three thousand six hundred dollars the next queue goes for an insane four thousand three hundred dollars and with that you get twice the storage and an RTX 4090 laptop GPU along with that unique dual UHD full HD switch mini LED display 4 300 is a lot of money for gaming laptop if I had that kind of money I still wouldn't consider it because I know they're going to be some great bang for buck options coming from Rog Acer Lenovo and Dell that are going to cost a lot less with similar specs but you got to realize this laptop is strictly catered towards a niche audience one that values Superior build quality the overall fit and finish in a selfie design and more power that they could take with them everywhere they go now from the outside Razer hasn't really updated the design on the blade 16. it still comes in this matte black anodized aluminum chassis with the green Razer logo that's LED backlit at the front it's still a huge fingerprint magnet so I would recommend a microfiber cloth handy for the occasional wipe Downs in terms of build quality Razer hasn't cut any Corners since this still feels robust and as premium as their previous blades I did notice that the hinge to support this massive 16 inch screen has gotten better in terms of smoothness and overall rigidity doesn't exhibit a lot of wobble which is great and of course you can open it with one hand now if you're coming from the blade 15 the overall form factor has increased slightly so the length is the same coming in at 14 inches but the depth has increased from 9.25 inches to 9.61 inches to accommodate the 16 by 10 display but you know what the biggest difference you're going to notice right away is in the Z height of this laptop because it's sitting at 0.87 inches or 22 millimeters versus 0.67 inches or 16.9 millimeters that's 30 percent thicker compared to last year and that also naturally leads to more weight now supposedly Razer did revamp the cooling system inside to allow additional power to the new CPU and GPU so we'll find out if it's any good in terms of temperatures and performance so stick around for that the included 330 watt Gan power adapter is surprisingly compact in fact it's much smaller than the one that comes with the MSI gt77 Titan so bonus points to Razer for that but I am not a fan of this braided cable because it is extremely difficult to manage and the power connector is still at ancient 90 degree connector which is just super unconventional especially when you plug it into the laptop the other way around it blocks a USB port which doesn't make any sense Razer just please please please fix this I mean how difficult is it to design something that is just user friendly it's 2023 guys come on the interior space hasn't changed all that much they have brought the exact same layout from the blade 15 with the larger keycaps I do love this minimal and Sleek look of this keyboard if you know me I'm a huge advocate for anything matte black so this pretty much takes that box no problem the switches could use some work there isn't a whole lot of key travel to work with so if you're a hardcore typist you might want to look into something from Rog or even Legion because those laptop keyboards are just solid but regardless this is still a solid keyboard that gets a job done I will say that chroma Lighting on this laptop is absolutely gorgeous Razer still has one of the best RGB setups and you can play around with a ton of effects through synapse you won't notice any color bleed with the lighting and I really hope other laptop manufacturers adapt this the trackpad is Mass and awesome it is a Precision Glass surface so navigating within Windows is a breeze with gestures and the port setup Remains the Same just like the blade 15. so on the left hand side you get power in two USB 3.2 Gen 2 type A ports a 3.2 Gen 2 type c port with 100 watts of PD charging support and an audio jack switching over to the right hand side you get a Kensington lock HDMI 2.1 another type A ports and a thunderbolt 4 port and you also get a full-size SD card reader which if you're a Creator You're Gonna Love it's also a really fast one too so I was quickly able to transfer raw 4K footage to my camera and start editing on this laptop right away so this is what the webcam looks like on the new blade 16. now the quality has improved compared to the blade 15 because Razer is using a 1080p sensor and the microphone sounds really good there is better depth to my voice there's very less noise so it's perfect for Skype and zoom meetings and of course I think you can also use it for gaming as well which is great another cool feature that razer's added to the blade 16 is a physical shutter right above the sensor so here's someone who values privacy this is an excellent feature Razer bonus points for including this the two front-facing speakers on the blade 16 sound great they've actually added two subwoofers at the bottom to sort of add a little bit of bass response to the overall sound signature and it sounds pretty good I wouldn't say it's noticeably better compared to the blade 15 but still it offers that well-balanced audio experience so if you do listen to music while you're in your bedroom or your private space then this is fine but yeah I would still take this setup over anything that's bottom facing shifting gears to the display and this thing is equipped with a 16 inch 16x10 aspect ratio display it was just a matter of time for Razer to implement a larger screen that we've all been asking for the taller aspect ratio is just great for filling up the screen with content it comes in clutch especially when you're editing videos because you do get that extra room for your timeline which is great I do have fact that comes in QHD at 240 hertz which honestly is perfect for this form factor I had no issues with window scaling set to 125 it's sharp and color accurate as it covers 100 srgb 89 Adobe RGB and 100 P3 if you're a Creator You're Gonna Love editing on this display and gaming on it was a fantastic experience guys it's just an overall impressive combination of resolution speed and color reproduction now keep in mind that this has the ability to dynamically switch between 120 to 240 hertz as well as 60 to 120 hertz if you're looking to preserve some battery life when you're on the go this is a very very bright panel our sample was able to sustain a peak level of around 500 nits so outdoor visibility shouldn't be an issue getting underneath the hood you have quick access to two Ram modules a maximum support capacity is 64 gigabytes the primary NVM SSD is actually hidden underneath this bracket and the drive speeds are about the same compared to the blade 15 from last year we got around 7 gigabytes per second on read and 5 gigabytes per second on rights you can also expand the storage by adding another m.2 drive but once again keep in mind that just like the blade 15 because of this latest setup you're only limited to a single-sided m.2 drive so what that means is you can't install drives that have chips on both sides so Razer has packed the blade 16 with a 95.2 watt hour battery which seems pretty generous for a laptop this size and you'd expect the blade 16 to get some amazing battery life away from the plug well not really and there's a couple reasons for that first of all for whatever reason raptorlex performance course just don't seem to hand light tasks off to the efficiency course like they should after that the faster 204 Hertz refresh rate display along with the core I9 CPU and the blade can only pull off for about six hours here it does start climbing the charts a bit more when it's used for watching video videos but it's still far behind where we'd like it to be but it does get over an hour in our heavy load test and that's not too bad at first glance but you also have to remember it's in one of the lowest power States here in Balance mode now I need to hit the pause button here and talk about a little pet peeve that I've had with Razer blades in the past and that's limiting CPU and GPU power way too much so last year they launched one with an RTX 30dtin 81290 Rich which sounded good on paper but it was not so fast because both were so power limited the blade 15 cost like five grand and it got beaten by laptops that cost less than half as much the problem was the blade 15's ability to actually cool down those high-end components basically Razer was trying to cram ridiculous amount of specs into a compact chassis and that man's sacrifices had to be made somewhere so instead of going down the path of screaming lot fans or insanely hot temperatures they dialed back performance but with the blade 16 it's a completely different story since there's a massive update to the cooling design that also has a lot more airflow and that gives just a lot more flexibility so overall there are two general power modes on this laptop silent and balanced are presets that can be toggled with the flip of a switch but there's also more customization since the CPU has four more levels along with a boost setting and the GPU gets three power modes so this is what razer's power modes look like and you can pause it here if you need more time with it since there is a lot to take in first of all in the standard balance mode the CPU runs at Intel's defaults while the RTX 4080 in this laptop gets capped at 135 Watts but shift over to the custom modes and that's we're going to notice things to get a little interesting the GPU can go as far as 175 Watts while in low nvidia's whisper mode gets enabled alongside a peak power of 135 Watts which is actually still a lot compared to last generation the 3958 hex goes from 35 watts in low mode but it can hit 90 Watts if if there's a load detected on the graphics card but if the GPU is idling it can gobble back up to 130 Watts but let's check out how razer's claims actually line up with reality now to double check that I'm going to be using the silent and balanced speed sense along with the Boost CPU mode and the high GP mode so from the power side balanced and Silent directly aligned with the medium and low custom settings while boost is getting above 100 watts and we even saw situations where it hit over 115 Watts but check out those temperatures guys nothing got above 87 degrees and that's pretty mind-blowing when you consider boost has this laptop running over 100 Watts the only thing you need to be aware of is balanced also cuts down clock speeds by a whole lot the GPU gets a lot of love with a constant 155 Watts along with super impressive temperatures for such a thin laptop the most impressive thing though is the noise levels I was expecting this thing to be ridiculously loud but it isn't just over 53 decibels here makes this one of the quietest gaming laptops I've seen at least when it's running full out in gaming a lot of other devices tend to hang around 50 decibels in balanced and can almost hit 60 decibels in their highest power mode and let me put that into context for you because disc blade 16 is running its components it almost the same power as the chunky heavy MSI gt7710 that I looked at recently but it gets similar temperatures and it puts out much much less noise that just points towards some great engineering on Razer smart so kudos to you guys for that but does that lead to great performance well let's pause right here in cinebench to set the stage a bit since you'll see two results for the blade 16 balanced and boost both get some interesting results while balanced cuts the 3950hxes to just 51 Watts it's still able to match or even beat some of the fastest laptops from last year running at 90 Watts or more that really shows how fast rotter Lake really is even at such a low TDP setting boost on the other hand gets performance levels that are up there with this year's gt77 Titan and Way Way Beyond anything from 2022. now since single core performance is in power limited the blade ties the MSI here since both laptops allow their processors to hit maximum turbo speeds the other real world apps that Focus purely on CPU performance basically repeat the original cinebench multi-core result with the blade 16 almost matching the Titan when boost mode is turned on while balanced equalizes some of the fastest laptops from 2022. even longer tests that favor better cooling show how well razors manage to design this laptop since the blade offers different levels of performance with its given modes it's easy to choose a setting that best suits what you're actually doing rather than having a one-size-fits-all solution of course there are still some hiccups like Photoshop but if you look at all the results together it's pretty obvious this is a program limitation rather than a hardware issue on the other hand both Intel and Nvidia need to look a bit closer at their output performance in Adobe Premiere Pro I mean it's good like really good but it could be better when you consider how much horsepower these new laptops have I mean look at what this blade can do in DaVinci Resolve it isn't even closed guys this thing is just so much better than anything from last year since it can Flex nvidia's dual and Bank engines for Crazy Fast export times next up we have gaming performance at 1080P 1440p and 4K and for that we use the same two modes so boost and balanced as before the only difference is the CPU is in boost mode and the GPU is set to its highest setting which is high in synapse so let's roll the results foreign thank you foreign I think the conclusion for this blade 16 is going to be pretty easy I never thought I was going to compare this to something like the MSI gt77 Titan but guys this laptop gets 90 of the performance as that MSI beast in a laptop that's just smaller more portable and quieter which also happens to run cooler it's also got a massive 16 inch fast bright and color accurate display and the build quality is just one of the best as you can find for a gaming laptop now when you bring pricing into the equation it's a really expensive investment but the thing you got to realize is that you're not losing performance like what you did with the blade 15 that was roughly the same price in fact this laptop is a thousand dollars less than the gt77 Titan that we're showing in the benchmarks and in my books that just goes to show that the blade 16 is an overall Superior laptop in almost every possible way and look I know there's going to be a lot of hate for Razer out there but there's no denying that the Blazing scene is a freaking impressive device on almost every level they took pretty much all of our critique from previous blades in the past and they've improved this one in almost every way and the end result is just a great overall gaming laptop so on that note thanks so much for watching I hope you're able to take away everything that you needed to know about the new Razer Blade 16. let us know what you guys think about in the comments about the performance and if you are looking to pick up one of the fastest laptops for 2023 would this be on the top of your list but I also have to mention that I'm excited to take a look at some of the other offerings from Rog Acer and Dell and Legion those laptops are looking pretty good as well so it will be an interesting rest of the year I would peace out and don't forget to spend responsibly my friendsso this is the new Razer Blade 16. it got until shiny new 13 gen Raptor like CPU and the new 40 series GPU from Nvidia we got an early preview of this laptop back at CES this year but we finally have one here at the studio to run our tests and share our experience with you guys IVs is probably going to set the Benchmark for being the fastest 16-inch gaming laptop on the market for 2023. Razer basically took all of our feedback from last year with the blade 15. tweak the chassis a little bit to add some features and gave it more power and it's awesome but there's catch and you probably guessed it the price the price you see Razer is only offering two skews of the blade 16. I have the base model that comes with a core I9 3950 HX with 32 threads 32 gigs of RAM a terabyte SSD and RTX 4080 with 12 gigs of vram and a 16 inch Quad HD 240Hz display and it costs three thousand six hundred dollars the next queue goes for an insane four thousand three hundred dollars and with that you get twice the storage and an RTX 4090 laptop GPU along with that unique dual UHD full HD switch mini LED display 4 300 is a lot of money for gaming laptop if I had that kind of money I still wouldn't consider it because I know they're going to be some great bang for buck options coming from Rog Acer Lenovo and Dell that are going to cost a lot less with similar specs but you got to realize this laptop is strictly catered towards a niche audience one that values Superior build quality the overall fit and finish in a selfie design and more power that they could take with them everywhere they go now from the outside Razer hasn't really updated the design on the blade 16. it still comes in this matte black anodized aluminum chassis with the green Razer logo that's LED backlit at the front it's still a huge fingerprint magnet so I would recommend a microfiber cloth handy for the occasional wipe Downs in terms of build quality Razer hasn't cut any Corners since this still feels robust and as premium as their previous blades I did notice that the hinge to support this massive 16 inch screen has gotten better in terms of smoothness and overall rigidity doesn't exhibit a lot of wobble which is great and of course you can open it with one hand now if you're coming from the blade 15 the overall form factor has increased slightly so the length is the same coming in at 14 inches but the depth has increased from 9.25 inches to 9.61 inches to accommodate the 16 by 10 display but you know what the biggest difference you're going to notice right away is in the Z height of this laptop because it's sitting at 0.87 inches or 22 millimeters versus 0.67 inches or 16.9 millimeters that's 30 percent thicker compared to last year and that also naturally leads to more weight now supposedly Razer did revamp the cooling system inside to allow additional power to the new CPU and GPU so we'll find out if it's any good in terms of temperatures and performance so stick around for that the included 330 watt Gan power adapter is surprisingly compact in fact it's much smaller than the one that comes with the MSI gt77 Titan so bonus points to Razer for that but I am not a fan of this braided cable because it is extremely difficult to manage and the power connector is still at ancient 90 degree connector which is just super unconventional especially when you plug it into the laptop the other way around it blocks a USB port which doesn't make any sense Razer just please please please fix this I mean how difficult is it to design something that is just user friendly it's 2023 guys come on the interior space hasn't changed all that much they have brought the exact same layout from the blade 15 with the larger keycaps I do love this minimal and Sleek look of this keyboard if you know me I'm a huge advocate for anything matte black so this pretty much takes that box no problem the switches could use some work there isn't a whole lot of key travel to work with so if you're a hardcore typist you might want to look into something from Rog or even Legion because those laptop keyboards are just solid but regardless this is still a solid keyboard that gets a job done I will say that chroma Lighting on this laptop is absolutely gorgeous Razer still has one of the best RGB setups and you can play around with a ton of effects through synapse you won't notice any color bleed with the lighting and I really hope other laptop manufacturers adapt this the trackpad is Mass and awesome it is a Precision Glass surface so navigating within Windows is a breeze with gestures and the port setup Remains the Same just like the blade 15. so on the left hand side you get power in two USB 3.2 Gen 2 type A ports a 3.2 Gen 2 type c port with 100 watts of PD charging support and an audio jack switching over to the right hand side you get a Kensington lock HDMI 2.1 another type A ports and a thunderbolt 4 port and you also get a full-size SD card reader which if you're a Creator You're Gonna Love it's also a really fast one too so I was quickly able to transfer raw 4K footage to my camera and start editing on this laptop right away so this is what the webcam looks like on the new blade 16. now the quality has improved compared to the blade 15 because Razer is using a 1080p sensor and the microphone sounds really good there is better depth to my voice there's very less noise so it's perfect for Skype and zoom meetings and of course I think you can also use it for gaming as well which is great another cool feature that razer's added to the blade 16 is a physical shutter right above the sensor so here's someone who values privacy this is an excellent feature Razer bonus points for including this the two front-facing speakers on the blade 16 sound great they've actually added two subwoofers at the bottom to sort of add a little bit of bass response to the overall sound signature and it sounds pretty good I wouldn't say it's noticeably better compared to the blade 15 but still it offers that well-balanced audio experience so if you do listen to music while you're in your bedroom or your private space then this is fine but yeah I would still take this setup over anything that's bottom facing shifting gears to the display and this thing is equipped with a 16 inch 16x10 aspect ratio display it was just a matter of time for Razer to implement a larger screen that we've all been asking for the taller aspect ratio is just great for filling up the screen with content it comes in clutch especially when you're editing videos because you do get that extra room for your timeline which is great I do have fact that comes in QHD at 240 hertz which honestly is perfect for this form factor I had no issues with window scaling set to 125 it's sharp and color accurate as it covers 100 srgb 89 Adobe RGB and 100 P3 if you're a Creator You're Gonna Love editing on this display and gaming on it was a fantastic experience guys it's just an overall impressive combination of resolution speed and color reproduction now keep in mind that this has the ability to dynamically switch between 120 to 240 hertz as well as 60 to 120 hertz if you're looking to preserve some battery life when you're on the go this is a very very bright panel our sample was able to sustain a peak level of around 500 nits so outdoor visibility shouldn't be an issue getting underneath the hood you have quick access to two Ram modules a maximum support capacity is 64 gigabytes the primary NVM SSD is actually hidden underneath this bracket and the drive speeds are about the same compared to the blade 15 from last year we got around 7 gigabytes per second on read and 5 gigabytes per second on rights you can also expand the storage by adding another m.2 drive but once again keep in mind that just like the blade 15 because of this latest setup you're only limited to a single-sided m.2 drive so what that means is you can't install drives that have chips on both sides so Razer has packed the blade 16 with a 95.2 watt hour battery which seems pretty generous for a laptop this size and you'd expect the blade 16 to get some amazing battery life away from the plug well not really and there's a couple reasons for that first of all for whatever reason raptorlex performance course just don't seem to hand light tasks off to the efficiency course like they should after that the faster 204 Hertz refresh rate display along with the core I9 CPU and the blade can only pull off for about six hours here it does start climbing the charts a bit more when it's used for watching video videos but it's still far behind where we'd like it to be but it does get over an hour in our heavy load test and that's not too bad at first glance but you also have to remember it's in one of the lowest power States here in Balance mode now I need to hit the pause button here and talk about a little pet peeve that I've had with Razer blades in the past and that's limiting CPU and GPU power way too much so last year they launched one with an RTX 30dtin 81290 Rich which sounded good on paper but it was not so fast because both were so power limited the blade 15 cost like five grand and it got beaten by laptops that cost less than half as much the problem was the blade 15's ability to actually cool down those high-end components basically Razer was trying to cram ridiculous amount of specs into a compact chassis and that man's sacrifices had to be made somewhere so instead of going down the path of screaming lot fans or insanely hot temperatures they dialed back performance but with the blade 16 it's a completely different story since there's a massive update to the cooling design that also has a lot more airflow and that gives just a lot more flexibility so overall there are two general power modes on this laptop silent and balanced are presets that can be toggled with the flip of a switch but there's also more customization since the CPU has four more levels along with a boost setting and the GPU gets three power modes so this is what razer's power modes look like and you can pause it here if you need more time with it since there is a lot to take in first of all in the standard balance mode the CPU runs at Intel's defaults while the RTX 4080 in this laptop gets capped at 135 Watts but shift over to the custom modes and that's we're going to notice things to get a little interesting the GPU can go as far as 175 Watts while in low nvidia's whisper mode gets enabled alongside a peak power of 135 Watts which is actually still a lot compared to last generation the 3958 hex goes from 35 watts in low mode but it can hit 90 Watts if if there's a load detected on the graphics card but if the GPU is idling it can gobble back up to 130 Watts but let's check out how razer's claims actually line up with reality now to double check that I'm going to be using the silent and balanced speed sense along with the Boost CPU mode and the high GP mode so from the power side balanced and Silent directly aligned with the medium and low custom settings while boost is getting above 100 watts and we even saw situations where it hit over 115 Watts but check out those temperatures guys nothing got above 87 degrees and that's pretty mind-blowing when you consider boost has this laptop running over 100 Watts the only thing you need to be aware of is balanced also cuts down clock speeds by a whole lot the GPU gets a lot of love with a constant 155 Watts along with super impressive temperatures for such a thin laptop the most impressive thing though is the noise levels I was expecting this thing to be ridiculously loud but it isn't just over 53 decibels here makes this one of the quietest gaming laptops I've seen at least when it's running full out in gaming a lot of other devices tend to hang around 50 decibels in balanced and can almost hit 60 decibels in their highest power mode and let me put that into context for you because disc blade 16 is running its components it almost the same power as the chunky heavy MSI gt7710 that I looked at recently but it gets similar temperatures and it puts out much much less noise that just points towards some great engineering on Razer smart so kudos to you guys for that but does that lead to great performance well let's pause right here in cinebench to set the stage a bit since you'll see two results for the blade 16 balanced and boost both get some interesting results while balanced cuts the 3950hxes to just 51 Watts it's still able to match or even beat some of the fastest laptops from last year running at 90 Watts or more that really shows how fast rotter Lake really is even at such a low TDP setting boost on the other hand gets performance levels that are up there with this year's gt77 Titan and Way Way Beyond anything from 2022. now since single core performance is in power limited the blade ties the MSI here since both laptops allow their processors to hit maximum turbo speeds the other real world apps that Focus purely on CPU performance basically repeat the original cinebench multi-core result with the blade 16 almost matching the Titan when boost mode is turned on while balanced equalizes some of the fastest laptops from 2022. even longer tests that favor better cooling show how well razors manage to design this laptop since the blade offers different levels of performance with its given modes it's easy to choose a setting that best suits what you're actually doing rather than having a one-size-fits-all solution of course there are still some hiccups like Photoshop but if you look at all the results together it's pretty obvious this is a program limitation rather than a hardware issue on the other hand both Intel and Nvidia need to look a bit closer at their output performance in Adobe Premiere Pro I mean it's good like really good but it could be better when you consider how much horsepower these new laptops have I mean look at what this blade can do in DaVinci Resolve it isn't even closed guys this thing is just so much better than anything from last year since it can Flex nvidia's dual and Bank engines for Crazy Fast export times next up we have gaming performance at 1080P 1440p and 4K and for that we use the same two modes so boost and balanced as before the only difference is the CPU is in boost mode and the GPU is set to its highest setting which is high in synapse so let's roll the results foreign thank you foreign I think the conclusion for this blade 16 is going to be pretty easy I never thought I was going to compare this to something like the MSI gt77 Titan but guys this laptop gets 90 of the performance as that MSI beast in a laptop that's just smaller more portable and quieter which also happens to run cooler it's also got a massive 16 inch fast bright and color accurate display and the build quality is just one of the best as you can find for a gaming laptop now when you bring pricing into the equation it's a really expensive investment but the thing you got to realize is that you're not losing performance like what you did with the blade 15 that was roughly the same price in fact this laptop is a thousand dollars less than the gt77 Titan that we're showing in the benchmarks and in my books that just goes to show that the blade 16 is an overall Superior laptop in almost every possible way and look I know there's going to be a lot of hate for Razer out there but there's no denying that the Blazing scene is a freaking impressive device on almost every level they took pretty much all of our critique from previous blades in the past and they've improved this one in almost every way and the end result is just a great overall gaming laptop so on that note thanks so much for watching I hope you're able to take away everything that you needed to know about the new Razer Blade 16. let us know what you guys think about in the comments about the performance and if you are looking to pick up one of the fastest laptops for 2023 would this be on the top of your list but I also have to mention that I'm excited to take a look at some of the other offerings from Rog Acer and Dell and Legion those laptops are looking pretty good as well so it will be an interesting rest of the year I would peace out and don't forget to spend responsibly my friends\n"