Razer Blade 16 (2024)
Best premium gaming laptop
GPU | Up to Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 |
CPU | Intel Core i9 14900HX |
RAM | Up to 64GB |
Storage | Up to 4TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSSTC SSD |
Display | 16-inch 240Hz OLED 2,560 x 1,440, or 16-inch dual UHD+FHD mini-LED |
Battery | 95.2WHrs |
Pros
- Excellent build quality
- Fantastic OLED display
- Decent gaming performance
Cons
- Glossy screen is very reflective
- Very expensive for specs
- Irritating fan noise
If you want the very best and are prepared to pay for it, the latest Razer Blade 16 is as classy as it gets. Its build quality is superb, and its aluminum chassis looks and feels like a premium product when you pick it up. You really see what you’ve paid for when you open it up and see the OLED screen, though. The display is fantastic, with deep blacks, high contrast, and vivid colors.
You get some seriously powerful specs too, with a 24-core Intel Core i9 14900HX CPU under the hood. This processor is arguably overkill for gaming, but it means you can do practically anything with this machine, including heavily multi-threaded work such as video encoding. There’s a choice of GPUs as well, and the GeForce RTX 4070 model held up well in our testing, even managing to play Cyberpunk 2077 at 74fps with the Ultra ray tracing preset at 2,560 x 1,600, thanks to some help from Nvidia’s DLSS 3 frame generation tech.
However, you pay a high price – even higher than the Blade 16 (2023). The base spec will set you back $2,999 and only comes with a 1TB SSD and 16GB of RAM. We also found that the Blade 16’s screen can be overly reflective under bright light, making lots of fan noise when working hard. If that’s not an issue and you have the money, this is the most stylish and powerful gaming laptop on the list.