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steang
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I see that the Razer Blade Advanced 2021 4K OLED with RTX 3080 now only says it has 8gb of VRAM on thr product pages! Is this correct? Serial number is same as before and up until yesterday it said it had 16 GB of VRAM for the GPU (serial: RZ09-0367CE53-R3U1).

Is it a webpage glitch? Has anyone received the 4K OLED with RTX 3080 16GB VRAM?


As far as i know, only the pro 17 inch 4K 120HZ has the 16gb version.
Current: Razer Blade 14 (2015) i7-4720HQ, GTX 970M Coming: Razer Blade 15 Base (Early 2021), i7-10750H, RTX 3070, QHD 165HZ
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I see that the Razer Blade Advanced 2021 4K OLED with RTX 3080 now only says it has 8gb of VRAM on thr product pages! Is this correct? Serial number is same as before and up until yesterday it said it had 16 GB of VRAM for the GPU (serial: RZ09-0367CE53-R3U1).

Is it a webpage glitch? Has anyone received the 4K OLED with RTX 3080 16GB VRAM?
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Dyspareunia
For the Razer Blade 15 Advanced RTX 3080, what are the maximum denomination of memory and SSD storage space that can be installed? Default memory is 32GB dual-channel DDR4-2933MHz (16GB x 2) and default storage space is 1TB SSD (M.2 NVMe PCIe 3.0 x4) and was wondering what the top end maximums were for this model.

Someone use sabrent 4tb rocket on blade stealth, pretty sure it can handle this too. Just don’t waste the money for PCIe 4.0 since the cpu only can handle pcie 3.0. For ram as other mentioned 64gb it’s stated on specification as well, ram speed not sure, up to 2933 or 3200 MHz, depends what xmp says.
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steang
Dyspareunia
For the Razer Blade 15 Advanced RTX 3080, what are the maximum denomination of memory and SSD storage space that can be installed? Default memory is 32GB dual-channel DDR4-2933MHz (16GB x 2) and default storage space is 1TB SSD (M.2 NVMe PCIe 3.0 x4) and was wondering what the top end maximums were for this model.


as far as i know,

RAM will be a maximum of 64GB. (2x32GB sticks of DDR4 @ 2933mhz)

SSD wise, the system do come with an empty M.2. i added another 1 TB to my system on that. no idea on the MAXIMUM.
Current: Razer Blade 14 (2015) i7-4720HQ, GTX 970M Coming: Razer Blade 15 Base (Early 2021), i7-10750H, RTX 3070, QHD 165HZ
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For the Razer Blade 15 Advanced RTX 3080, what are the maximum denomination of memory and SSD storage space that can be installed? Default memory is 32GB dual-channel DDR4-2933MHz (16GB x 2) and default storage space is 1TB SSD (M.2 NVMe PCIe 3.0 x4) and was wondering what the top end maximums were for this model.
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Shipped!! Yay finally 😃
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Got my Razor Blade RTX 3080 QHD this week. Compared to my other monitors the white color of screen is quite redish. Did someone realize this also?
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Did someone tried undervolting yet, is it possible?
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Thanks for that info again. Don’t got my QHD Blade yet, so I can’t test it myself. May be I got something wrong here. This is kinda good news (for me ;)). And again, since it was possible on the old optimus, it should work on the more advanced version too, even when it now has 1440.

I can Image by may be changing the driver information on the „igpu display“ (there are 2 displays as we learned) from „it is able to do 60“ to for example „it can do 120“ and things are fine.
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webmich
Ah, thanks for that info. Had 2 of the RB17Pros a while ago, but couldn’t remember how it was handled there.

Since it was achieved there, I hope they (Intel and Nvidia I guess, not razer themselfs) are working on bringing it back to their „advanced“ optimus again. Really would be a shame.

And as I sayed before, I would rather go 120hz igpu and dgpu instead of 60hz igpu and having to switch to 240hz dgpu manually. On 1440 more then 120 is unlikely anyways.

Maybe the community finds a way to „hack“ this 60hz bullshit limit on igpu too. I don’t think this problem is a hardware based problem.


I am not having to manually change to 240hz, the 240hz to 60hz happens when either

a) You put it on automatic mode and it switched based on application
b) You use the Nvidia app to switch between Optimus/Nvidia

There is no two step process for me where I have to both change it to Nvidia and also change the refresh rate manually. Once you set refresh rate of 240hz for dGPU it remembers it.

The only thing missing is that you can’t change the refresh rate on iGPU from 60hz to something else.
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Ah, thanks for that info. Had 2 of the RB17Pros a while ago, but couldn’t remember how it was handled there.

Since it was achieved there, I hope they (Intel and Nvidia I guess, not razer themselfs) are working on bringing it back to their „advanced“ optimus again. Really would be a shame.

And as I sayed before, I would rather go 120hz igpu and dgpu instead of 60hz igpu and having to switch to 240hz dgpu manually. On 1440 more then 120 is unlikely anyways.

Maybe the community finds a way to „hack“ this 60hz bullshit limit on igpu too. I don’t think this problem is a hardware based problem.
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webmich
Do not own a Gen1 Optimus right now, but is it the same with Gen1? On Desktop with 60hz not switching to higher refresh automatically by Optimus automatically switching to dGPU?

Let me ask that differently, doesn’t optimus „Gen1“ switch its refreshrate by automatically switching to dGPU?

Not have to reboot everytime you switch manually is a big improvement, but I think we are not fully there yet.


I had an Optimus Razer blade (without G-Sync) where I could have it at 144hz while on iGPU before. I don’t know if the inclusion of G-Sync or the 240hz panel means this is no longer possible or Razer just didn’t want to add the option? Might be a Windows/Intel thing too, until we see another advanced Optimus laptop doing it, we may never know.
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Do not own a Gen1 Optimus right now, but is it the same with Gen1? On Desktop with 60hz not switching to higher refresh automatically by Optimus automatically switching to dGPU?

Let me ask that differently, doesn’t optimus „Gen1“ switch its refreshrate by automatically switching to dGPU?

Not have to reboot everytime you switch manually is a big improvement, but I think we are not fully there yet.

For me I guess I will stick to dGPU only always, since higher refresh is nice even when browsing the web plus manually switching every time kinda sucks. Will use the laptop at home only anyways so battery life isn’t a big deal.
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devinus
Correct. I've tested using a handful of games I'd expect to be whitelisted by NVIDIA (e.g. AC Odyssey), but it doesn't seem like there's anything "advanced" or "optimal" going on at all yet really as the refresh rate is still always locked to 60Hz.


Optimus is just generally buggy even on non g-sync laptops. The best way to look at advanced Optimus is you aren’t having to restart the machine, which is something all g-sync enabled laptops had to do via a mux switch to switch beteeen iGPU and dGPU, guess we just have to be happy with that.
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webmich
So 240hz is only working when using dGPU only? Kinda sad that this is not working automatically with advanced optimus...


Correct. I've tested using a handful of games I'd expect to be whitelisted by NVIDIA (e.g. AC Odyssey), but it doesn't seem like there's anything "advanced" or "optimal" going on at all yet really as the refresh rate is still always locked to 60Hz.
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I personally see no reason why the igpu shouldn’t be able to handle 1440/240.

I would be happy to have Aoptimus working with 120hz, therefor not having to manually switch between 240hz/dgpu and 60/igpu. This way we could enjoy browsing web etc with more then 60hz, have good battery and still able so use gsync with automatic dGPU for gaming. This is at least what I would have expected from Aoptimus.

Switching manually with the tradeoff in having poor battery or only 60hz desktop isn’t what advanced optimus should be, in my eyes.

I may be could life with 60hz desktop for good battery, but having to manually switch to 240hz every time I want to start a game is ridiculous.
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webmich
Still waiting on my Amazon preorder here in germany.

So 240hz is only working when using dGPU only? Kinda sad that this is not working automatically with advanced optimus...

But Gsync then (dGPU only) is working fine, is it? Downside until this is eventually getting fixed ist poor battery while not plugged in, correct?

Workaround is to enable/disable dGPU only mode when starting a game, correct? Downside here is 60hz while browsing the web etc.

Hope this will get fixed soon!

240hz can only work in dGPU mode, this isn’t a bug. Intel iGPU can at best handle 144hz. Currently on Optimus it is set to 60hz, not sure if they could implement 144hz as an option or if advanced Optimus has some limitation resulting in 60hz option only.

It is possible we will always have 60hz on Optimus mode, with no option for 144hz (definitely won’t get 240hz).
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Still waiting on my Amazon preorder here in germany.

So 240hz is only working when using dGPU only? Kinda sad that this is not working automatically with advanced optimus...

But Gsync then (dGPU only) is working fine, is it? Downside until this is eventually getting fixed ist poor battery while not plugged in, correct?

Workaround is to enable/disable dGPU only mode when starting a game, correct? Downside here is 60hz while browsing the web etc.

Hope this will get fixed soon!
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XrayNorthWest
First go to the NVIDIA control panel and switch display mode to the discrete graphics. Then go to the advanced display settings under windows settings, select the gsync panel, then select 240hz.


I can confirm this works to get the 240hz refresh rate, however I find it hard to believe this is the intended way to deal with this issue? For one, why wouldn't the QHD laptop come configured with a 240hz refresh rate and G-SYNC enabled by default as was advertised? I'm also assuming this forgoes the automatic iGPU/dGPU display adapter switching for improved battery life? Either Advanced Optimus, G-SYNC, or the 240Hz refresh rate do not all work together in harmony right now in any possible configuration or I'm just missing something.

There are currently eight different places that deal with the refresh rate or automatic GPU switching, which makes solving this problem very non-trivial. The BIOS, the display adapter properties in the Control Panel, the Windows 10 "Advanced display settings" and new "Graphics settings" page, the Intel Graphics Command Center "Display" page, the "Manage 3D settings" and "Manage Display mode" task in NVIDIA Control Panel, and finally the "PERFORMANCE" tab in Razer Synapse -- all have poorly documented, potentially subtly different affects.

The confusion is compounded when you consider the blameless assumption that maybe it's the result of some overaggressive default power-saving settings. Mind you, power settings have just as many disorganized setting management locations littered throughout a default installation.

I just want to appreciate the "240Hz Ultra-Fast Refresh Rate" OEM sticker that's so proudly affixed on the lid. 😩
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Userlevel 3
It appears a bug exists wherein whenever you switch away from the dGPU and then switch back (either manually or via Optimus), the refresh rate of the panel is reset to 60Hz even if you had it set at 240Hz previously. Refresh rate control is in multiple places (windows advanced display settings, the Razer Synapse tool, ?) so not sure where the bug is but hopefully they will be fixing this issue.

Also, I can't seem to really get whisper mode to work. It is enabled in Ge Force Experience if the laptop is in Balanced mode. But I would not describe the fans as making a "whisper" level of noise when all available settings are set to the lowest fan speed.
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devinus
Mine is locked at 60hz plugged in on my 3080 QHD. It doesn’t show the 240hz option. I’m not sure why, I just got the laptop today and haven’t messed with any settings or installed any drivers at all.


First go to the NVIDIA control panel and switch display mode to the discrete graphics. Then go to the advanced display settings under windows settings, select the gsync panel, then select 240hz.
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easytruckBeauBlue589
Is your refresh rate limited to 60hz on Windows desktop?


Mine is locked at 60hz plugged in on my 3080 QHD. It doesn’t show the 240hz option. I’m not sure why, I just got the laptop today and haven’t messed with any settings or installed any drivers at all.
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I keep getting an Optimus error message saying iCloud.exe has stopped it switching - although clearly it has as the game FPS is quite high even though Nvidia control panel shows iGPU.
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XrayNorthWest
No - Not while plugged in. See attached pic.


If I use the NVIDIA control panel and set the Display Mode to "Automatic Select" then in Desktop it selects Optimus and in that case it is limited to 60 Hz (as expected).
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easytruckBeauBlue589
Thank you for checking. Seeing 2 monitors is because that's how Advanced Optimus works.


Ah, got it. Thanks.
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