With CES 2025 in full swing, the tech-obsessed among us are currently being treated to a host of new and exciting product announcements with everything from new big-screen tellies to lifestyle gadgets and beyond.
Over on the gaming side of things, one of the major new reveals is this year’s updated flagship Razer gaming laptop, the Razer Blade 16, which not only benefits from the latest in NVIDIA RTX 50 series graphics but manages to improve the Razer Blade form factor even further – rather miraculously.
Yep, the 2025 Razer Blade 16 trims the machine’s profile down to a very slim 0.59” at its thinnest point, which happens to be a record for the company. Razer’s achieved this through some new thermal wizardry along with a unibody aluminium chassis to maintain the laptop’s sturdiness even at such a Razer-thin (sorry) and portable size.
Tucked away inside that gorgeous shell is a QHD+ 240Hz OLED display offering a ridiculous 0.2ms response time and vibrant OLED colours, along with a refreshed keyboard design and additional speakers.
The new keyboard offers a deeper 1.5mm travel distance and ~63g of actuation force to create a more responsive typing experience, and also features a row of five macro keys pre-configured for Razer’s (actually rather good) Synapse software and further customisable from there. The new 6-speaker audio system is similarly dialled into the Synapse ecosystem and powered by THX, with plenty of room to tweak to aural perfection.
Redesigned for truly superior portability, the Razer Blade 16 is the thinnest Blade ever, featuring a durable aluminum unibody design: https://t.co/jZcDmvRuTQ
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Powering this slender beast is the new generation in NVIDIA laptop graphics, with the Razer Blade 16 packing up to a GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop GPU. NVIDIA is, expectedly, making a lot of noise about the “AI” creativity capabilities of its new 50 series cards, but we can safely ignore most of that and focus on bleeding-edge performance and the already-ubiquitous AI features like DLSS 4 upscaling tech.
In another first, the Razer Blade 16 will feature AMD Ryzen brains, with the laptop sporting up to an AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 CPU. The name might already be a bit of a giveaway that AMD is also going hard on AI garbage with its new processors, but once again there’s still plenty of genuine performance to expect here, alongside blazing fast 8000 MHz LPDDR5X memory.
So far, so we got a press release from Razer marketing, but as someone who’s checked out and reviewed the company’s Blade laptop line before, this new iteration does sound like a genuine leap forward in overall design. When it comes to performance, we’ll need to get the unit into our own hands to see if this one is worth upgrading for current Blade owners, but the combination of new NVIDIA 50 series GPU and a move to AMD processors definitely makes this sound compelling.
The new Razer Blade 16 is poised to launch locally in Q1 2025, and we’ll bring you more information (including pricing) as it comes to light. You can find out more here.
What do you think of this new bit of gear from Razer? Are you prepared to pay a premium for top-notch performance in a super thin and sexy package? Let us know in the comments or over on our social media.
