BLADE 15 RTX 30 SERIES | Still the Best Gaming Laptop

ha1o2surfer96
Use CRU (https://www.monitortests.com/forum/Thread-Custom-Resolution-Utility-CRU) to manually add a custom refresh rate when in optimus mode. Works great! They software lock out other refresh rates for some odd reason.

Imgur Link: https://imgur.com/01eCdyb

I chose 120hz for battery life.

CRU Link: Custom Resolution Utility (CRU) (monitortests.com)

Sir, I owe you more than one beer. You helped me turn this laptop from a turd to my dream laptop. The default 60hz limitation was making it so that I didn't want to use the laptop anymore and even considered selling it. Now I'm in love with it. Running it at 120hz on Optimus and runs like butter. I even removed the option to run it at 60hz altogether.

Hnguyen1128
I've had my 3080 360hz for 2 weeks and loving it. I'm getting a strange flickering when the monitor is set at 360hz, but other than that I'm loving it. My first choice was the alienware m15 but since their finance department was giving me the runaround with my approved account, I just couldn't wait on them. When I got the stock notification, I ordered on Monday, it shipped on Tuesday and I received it on Wednesday. I've been playing Control at max settings and ray tracing set to high and it looks great. I see a lot of people complain about the fan noise, but it really isn't that bad. It does get a little hot, but I expect it since its so slim and sexy. Dell giving me the run around worked out better for me. I hope you guys are as happy with it as I am.

did you find a fix for the screen flicker when its set to 360hz or do you strictly use it set to 60hz

Hi all, I bought a Razer Blade 15 a month ago and the screen has been flickering since before I even booted up my first game. At first I thought it might be overheating so I ordered a cooling fan but it didn't fix it in the slightest. I tried updating windows and restarting but that didn't work either. After that I found out it could be the drivers so I started looking for where to update those but can't find it. The severity and frequency of the flickering seems totally random as sometimes it's perfectly fine and others it is pretty much unusable. Does anybody have a link to the drivers for a RZ09-0409Aed3? A solution for if it isn't the drivers or anything I've already tried would also be appreciated.

easytruckBeauBlue589
I read a report that this may be caused by interference from the WiFi 6E card. Do you have a regular WiFi 6 card to test with?

Nope, I don't have one of those sadly. I'm also hesitant to open the thing up since I'm not very experienced and this laptop was pricey.

I'm an owner of a 15" Advanced with full HD screen 360hz. The screen was so crappy compared to my Blade 17 Pro 300Hz. I've measured 318 Nits max brightness. If i turn off Optimus, colors are much better and have 330 Nit brightness. Intel driver / VGA sucks.

I have a blade 15 advanced, 11800h, 3070.

I'm not sure that 3080 worth the extra cost as this machine is getting hot even with 3070. Someone should advice on that but my guess that 3080 has about 15% advantage max, becuase of TDP limits / heat.

VGA: 3DMARK Timespy: 21279. Which is well in the mid range of what other laptops can do with 3070.

CPU: 11800h, could be a beast in a desktop... In general it is better than previous generation. About 20 % improvement over 10th gen intel with the SAME clock. However it is possible to release TDP of 11800h, which could boost its clock to the stars, for few seconds... becuase it is starting to throttling. Dont misunderstand me, this is a normal thing, and I'm very happy that Razer let us change to to 80W+ instead of 45W. But speed comes with heat, heat comes with massive CPU fan noise. Do NOT expect to be able to use 80W TDP CPU + 105W TDP GPU in the same time with full speed: this is just not gonna work, everything will be throttled. However if you use production softwares, for example DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) 80W TDP is great, fast and effective.

SSD: Liteon (SSTC) SSD, some series shipped with 980 PRO. I didnt like it. It failed on me in the second week, and in general it was not as fast as my 980 PRO.

Display: I have full HD, 360Hz. Brightness is about 330Nits, colors a not perfect for me out of the box, but it could easily calibrated to pretty decent level.

OVERCLOCK / UNDERCLOCK: Razer disabled undervolting in BIOS, which mean you are not able to undervolt CPU with ThrottleStop. However i posted in BIOS mod thread of notebookreview forum, which enable undervolting. This improve heat / higher clock speed depends on your need.

In general i still love this, however it is way overpriced. But ususally this is the case with premium quality stuffs.

Joikansai
You’ve to get advanced model in order to having usb C power delivery capability. And yes it’s right choice to choose blade 15 over blade 14 for editing works that might take advantage for having bigger ram. I’d recommend for display is qhd since it’s the best of the both worlds gaming and productivity, FHD with higher refresh rate usually has lame color accuracy and 4K (Oled) on 15 it’s limited to 60Hz which’s not great for gaming or maybe browsing, higher refresh rate feels day and night difference at least to me, and it has also I believe adaptive sync (g sync) and advanced optimus which are nice features to have. For GPU option it depends on your budget and configuration, i would choose 3080 (always opt the better for better longevity like I opted back then in 2018 with advanced 14 1070 over 1060, now it’s still usable for my FHD gaming) if there’s other advantages like bigger ram for reasonable price (current owning blade 14 3070, the difference to 3080 is €600 with other ram, vram, storage, monitor exactly same specs so for like only 10% performance increase that’s not reasonable imo).
Hope that’ll help your decision.

Thank you so much for the information, I really appreciate it! How does everyone feel about the i7 vs the Ryzen 9 5900HX? It seems like the AMD CPU beats the i7 in almost every benchmark. However, the 14" size and cooling limitations suggest that you would probably get more speed out of the i7 in the 15 Advanced. Not to mention pairing that with and extra 16GB of memory. That said, I really wish Razor would put the AMD in the 15, would make my decision a lot easier.

Also, the above comment suggests that I should get the 15 Advanced - 11th Gen i7, 32GB, QHD, RTX3080, etc. Those specs are available on two units. RZ09-0409CEA3-R3U1 & RZ09-0409CED3-R3U1. The only difference I can see is the display being 165Hz or 240Hz. Is this worth the extra $100? I am also a little concerned that the specs pages on the 240Hz option list out USB-C with power delivery and the 165Hz option does not. I assume this is just missing information as both options have the same general input - output layout. But I could be wrong here. Also don't see G-Sync on the 165Hz option. Is this correct?

Lastly, can anyone confirm that the HDMI port is running off the RTX GPU? Or, is it running off the integrated card? I've had issues with this on a non-gaming laptop. You couldn't necessarily run an external monitor or TV off the NVIDIA GPU because the ports were all connected to the integrated card. Thoughts on this?

Thanks again for everyone's help!

I am interested in buying a Razer Blade 15. Do all the different display options have the same 300 nits brightness level or is there one of the display with higher brightness? Thanks!

It might be a good laptop. but nothing beats a gaming desktop.