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[UPDATE] Razer Blade 15 ft. Intel 9th Gen processor

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FrozenFireVR
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Wow! Amazing!!!
kajira
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One of these days I'll be able to afford a Blade. LOL
By the time I can, they'll probably be truly incredible with *everything* that all the power users have been asking for. lol
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RazerRanix
Hi,

would you completly advice against playing on a external monitor with the blade closed?
Receiving my new blade 19 with a 2080, and I am using it on an external screen but I would like to keep it closed.
seems a bad Idea as the top of the laptop get really hot and might damage the screen.


I have a Blade Advanced 2080 with OLED and I have yet to use it with an external monitor, let alone with the lid closed, but I know the top of the keyboard area where the GPU is located can get quite hot. To figure out how hot, I used a FLIR camera and recorded an idle temperature of 106.5F / 41.4C which is quite reasonable and it was not uncomfortable to the touch. To determine what the temperature would be during a typical gaming session, I ran Hitman 2 for 45 minutes and then measured the temperature in the same region, which increased to 135.1F / 57.3C and was uncomfortable to the touch. I never closed the screen during my measurements, but if I had, the temperatures would be higher since a closed screen would trap radiated heat coming from the hot surface of the laptop. Sorry but I was not going to use my OLED screen to figure out how much!

Also, you might want to consider that I did this in a relatively cool room 72F / 22.2C and if the room had been warmer, the respective temperatures would have been higher as well. I've used external monitors in the past with laptops that got quite hot, lid down, and never had a problem. The LCD screens did not appear to be affected but with OLED, I'm not taking any chances, and the temps on these gaming laptops, while getting better can still get up there. My advice would be if you use an external monitor, leave the screen open, or at least partially open to facilitate cooling and minimize any potential damage to your screen.
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nicksparta
What do you expect from Razer ? You are paying for the looks and brand. If other competitor able to make their machine to look like business laptop with superior built quality and hardware features, Razer will be force to drop their price. Kidney is better than gaming. Gaming is just not worth it and dont let it take over your life ! Or just get a new hobby rather than playing games. This hobby is too expensive

Hahaha chill dude I was just kidding I'm not willing to sell any part of my body and I'm not "OMG I NEED IT RIGHT NOW!!", I'll be buying a new laptop when my savings will allow me and I like the laptop. At the moment I like this "blade with RTX" most from CES. I really need a better laptop since mine is getting old and less perfoming and old😂.
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csscsv
But in France only the rtx2070 is for sale, while 2060 and 2080 versions are yet to be released Maybe they will be for sale in a few minutes :)

well.. you're lucky.. the italian store sucks😂, it has no laptops.. I can't even find them, not even the GTX series😂
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yep, that's why I'm relying on NewEgg, hope I'll be able to get a new laptop soon:big_grin_:
Joikansai
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EmeraldBolt
Technically today is the release date of most of these "RTX laptops" but I haven't seen anything yet..

This is performance comparison mobile rtx. Still waiting for Blade RTX review.
Razer Blade 14 2021 QHD 165Hz | Ryzen 9 5900HX| RTX 3070 100W | 16GB DDR4 3200MHz | 1TB l Razer Blade 15 Advanced 2018 FHD 144Hz | i7-8750H | GTX 1070MQ | 16GB DDR4 2666MHz | 256 GB Corev2 | RTX 3070 Zotac Twin Edge OC | Razer Book 13 2020 FHD | i7-1165g7 | Intel Xe 96EU | 16GB LPDDR4X 4266MHz | 1Tb GB Razer Core V2 | RTX3070 | Zotac TwinOC Razer | Blade Stealth 13 2019 FHD | i7-1065g7 | GTX 1650MQ | 16GB LPDDR4 3744MHz | 512 GB | | Blade 14 2017 FHD | i7-7700HQ | GTX 1060 | 16GB DDR4 2400MHz | 512 GB | Razer Blade Stealth V2 2016 12,5 QHD | i7-7500U | HD620 | 8GB DDR3 1866MHz | 128 GB | | Blade 14 2015 IGZO QHD+ | i7–4720HQ | GT970M 3GB VRAM| 16GB DDR4 2400MHz | 256 GB | Razer Edge 2013 | i5-3317U | GT 640LE | 16GB DDR3 | 128 GB | Razer Phone 2| Razer Phone L33T Edition
RocketSkates93
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Although I would have preferred for the Razer Blade 15 to come out in Gunmetal Grey, time is running out and I need to get a new laptop soon to develop in Unity and Unreal Engine so I guess I'll settle with the Black color option. I would have definitely preferred a tone-on-tone logo with it though.

The question I have now is when would it be available in the Microsoft Store so I can take advantage of that student discount?
Joikansai
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Notebookcheck review for 2070 model is out. Unfortunately he tested not further on balanced or gaming mode, pretty sure low cpu performance is because of balanced mode. The rest is pretty promising, 1080maxq raw performance.
Razer Blade 14 2021 QHD 165Hz | Ryzen 9 5900HX| RTX 3070 100W | 16GB DDR4 3200MHz | 1TB l Razer Blade 15 Advanced 2018 FHD 144Hz | i7-8750H | GTX 1070MQ | 16GB DDR4 2666MHz | 256 GB Corev2 | RTX 3070 Zotac Twin Edge OC | Razer Book 13 2020 FHD | i7-1165g7 | Intel Xe 96EU | 16GB LPDDR4X 4266MHz | 1Tb GB Razer Core V2 | RTX3070 | Zotac TwinOC Razer | Blade Stealth 13 2019 FHD | i7-1065g7 | GTX 1650MQ | 16GB LPDDR4 3744MHz | 512 GB | | Blade 14 2017 FHD | i7-7700HQ | GTX 1060 | 16GB DDR4 2400MHz | 512 GB | Razer Blade Stealth V2 2016 12,5 QHD | i7-7500U | HD620 | 8GB DDR3 1866MHz | 128 GB | | Blade 14 2015 IGZO QHD+ | i7–4720HQ | GT970M 3GB VRAM| 16GB DDR4 2400MHz | 256 GB | Razer Edge 2013 | i5-3317U | GT 640LE | 16GB DDR3 | 128 GB | Razer Phone 2| Razer Phone L33T Edition
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Ganym3de
Can anyone with the new 240hz screen check Synapse for available refresh rates on the panel please?


240hz and 60hz only.
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@Jay101
I'm just defending a company against an accusation that is based on own (wrong) assumptions. Thats all.

But yeah, we can agree on disagreeing.
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ust look at those specs:D. When my current laptop (Lenovo legion y720) gives in, my next laptop will definitely be a razerblade 15.
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smexy ❤
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AppZZerO
@JORG33

At the moment definitely not. If you are Coding, Video-Editing and stuff like that, it can be useful but in gaming, 16gb should work for the next couple of years.


thanks man! just saved me 200+ bucks 😅

jst got into gaming in the pc deff my go to now in jst under two weeks :big_grin_:

now jst have to stop my self from spending 3k+ on a desktop
Gibson7
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EmeraldBolt
I still have to test it well, it doesn't seem to be that bad for now, I might be able to do some intensive gaming today to see how much it gets hot in a long gaming session anyway my unit in a normal usage gets warm with fans in "auto mode" because they aren't on most of the time, they are almost not audible, anyway once I've had a proper gaming session I'll tell you how much my hands were on fire:big_grin_:(forgive me if my grammar is poor)


Nice!
nah, your english is ok and i understand you fine.
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Razer.WolfPack
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Joikansai
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RB_2019_2070MQ_Owner
Hi Razer peeps!

Just got my new and first Razer laptop and wow, finally a classy well built enthusiast laptop, which I had bought one years ago...Anyway..

Is this place the best forum to hang around with other RTX RB 15 users? I would've expected a ton more people around here sharing their tips and performance feedback...

I was wondering if its worth keeping the Synapse software or not? I know it deals with all the RGB stuff but it interferes with MSI afterburner and its annoying me to death...well almost lol

Also can you please tell me what kinda scores i should be getting in Firestrike and TimeSpy with an OC

And what are your stable OC values? Thanks guys, any input would be very appreciated!

From synthetic benchmarks compared to my 1070maxq OC profile 200/600, I saw roughly only 10% graphics performance bump on firestrike but over 30% on timespy, so theoretically it performs way better on dx12 @higher resolution since stock firestrike is dx11 1080p and timespy is dx12 1440p.
Razer Blade 14 2021 QHD 165Hz | Ryzen 9 5900HX| RTX 3070 100W | 16GB DDR4 3200MHz | 1TB l Razer Blade 15 Advanced 2018 FHD 144Hz | i7-8750H | GTX 1070MQ | 16GB DDR4 2666MHz | 256 GB Corev2 | RTX 3070 Zotac Twin Edge OC | Razer Book 13 2020 FHD | i7-1165g7 | Intel Xe 96EU | 16GB LPDDR4X 4266MHz | 1Tb GB Razer Core V2 | RTX3070 | Zotac TwinOC Razer | Blade Stealth 13 2019 FHD | i7-1065g7 | GTX 1650MQ | 16GB LPDDR4 3744MHz | 512 GB | | Blade 14 2017 FHD | i7-7700HQ | GTX 1060 | 16GB DDR4 2400MHz | 512 GB | Razer Blade Stealth V2 2016 12,5 QHD | i7-7500U | HD620 | 8GB DDR3 1866MHz | 128 GB | | Blade 14 2015 IGZO QHD+ | i7–4720HQ | GT970M 3GB VRAM| 16GB DDR4 2400MHz | 256 GB | Razer Edge 2013 | i5-3317U | GT 640LE | 16GB DDR3 | 128 GB | Razer Phone 2| Razer Phone L33T Edition
fer.geraci
Proud owner of a white one here!

Long story short, I used to be a MSI guy, GT here, GS there... always very skeptic of all the Razer hype. Couple years ago I decided to give Razer a shot, got a RB 14 7th gen (Kaby) - and was a bit disappointed with:
- yellowish AUO panel, GPU throttled down, bad firestrike/games performance, etc.. After Razer made a second batch with LG screens (no bleed, good colors) and learnt how to tweak the BIOS for undervolting and disabling the GPU PCI-e cap, I finally decided to keep it. 2 years down the road, happy customer - 0 complains. The only thing that was killing me was HOW FREAKING LOUD it was, but got used to it.

Last week I started looking at the new laptops with RTXs, tried the GS65 first, thoroughly disappointed with throttling, bloatware, screen bleed and surprisingly, bad performance. XTU was giving me the worst benchmarks and constant throttling out of the box on the CPU - GPU was performing amazingly well though.

Today I decided to get the white RB 15 2019 RTX 2060 - I am impressed, like big time. How noiseless, cool and great it is in all respects. Nothing is perfect though, I am struggling with Synapse 3 and my razer gear (lancehead won't pick up configurations) and not a big fan of the fn layout at the right side of the arrows, but oh well, all other checkboxes are there and it is nothing i can't get used to.

Some time ago, I uploaded some vids on youtube showing how to customize the BIOS to undervolt and disable GPU capping settings - I thought I would need to do this to lower temps and improve performance on this machine, but it is absolutely unnecessary, just using XTU, I undervolted -0.1v the core, and my stress test wouldn't go past high 60s ... ridiculous. GRANTED, hitting a lot of power limit throttling, I get it, the CPU is capped for thermals, but as long as it doesn't affect gaming, I am cool with it, not gonna jump through hoops to get just a few more frames while 90% of the time I am just working on the PC.

Good job Razer, I was on the fence after reading horror tales of people having unbelievable high temps on the 2018 model, but this one got it right.


Highlight (in my book)
- Backlit symbols (FINALLYYYYY)
- Silent
- Cool
- Gorgeous white
- Excellent LG panel, no bleed, good brightness and colors.

This on top of those things which are needless to say; build quality etc...

Conclusion: for those on the fence, I recommend pulling the trigger or stretching
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Guys I will be installing my HyperX DDR4 2666 samsung b-die kit in my RB15 2070MQ, I expect better CPU scores as these have much better timings and can be further tweaked with XTU ( I got those timings so damn low on my previous laptop) so let me know if yo want me to share the data and I'll do some extra testing in case you might want to look into that kit for yourselves to squeeze every little bit of performance out of that 8750H.

Yes Razer ships their systems with Samsung sticks @2666mhz but its not b-die and at first I thought b-die would be a bit of a waste to use in a laptop but I was wrong...!

So lets see how this works out in the RB15
Razer Blade 2019 RTX 2070 MQ Asus z390 / i7-8086k / evga 2080 Ti
TempiM
Someday 🙏
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Joikansai
Benchmarks isn’t for buying, you’ll use mostly only at first week. In game crash may be caused by drivers instability, saw recently quite a lot rtx laptops users reported this, try use another older driver I think there’re 3 different drivers now for your Blade gpu. Out of box 3Dmark scores or the performance may not the best, undervolting the cpu it and use gaming mode if you want higher score.

Thank you for the advice, I've been undervolting eversince(didn't have that much time to find the most I could undervolt yet so..) and now I can score around 6710~ with time spy and 15700~15900 with Fire strike(once I've found the minimum I'll post them and the scores)as for thermals.. still not bad they aren't unbearable the only schorcing hot spot was under the display/exhausts and some times the palm rest became hot but it only occured once and for the crashs I don't know.. I still didn't rollback, I updated it to the latest yesterday but opening GeForce Experience crashed the whole system(it happened twice)but I'm not sure if it is that software that crashedthe sytem or something else since seconds ealier I was running primer
Joikansai
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EmeraldBolt
I've downloaded NVIDIA Inspector to OC, I haven't done it yet I wanted to see how much I could get with only undervolting first then I might OC it

Yes you can OC with inspector, but you may want also have afterburner on screen display (OSD) to monitor your temperature. Inspector has monitoring feature but not OSD. Personally I would go with Afterburner, OC and in game monitoring feature, beside you can also scan OC value with Afterburner 4.6.0 beta, though it still can go higher than scored value.
Razer Blade 14 2021 QHD 165Hz | Ryzen 9 5900HX| RTX 3070 100W | 16GB DDR4 3200MHz | 1TB l Razer Blade 15 Advanced 2018 FHD 144Hz | i7-8750H | GTX 1070MQ | 16GB DDR4 2666MHz | 256 GB Corev2 | RTX 3070 Zotac Twin Edge OC | Razer Book 13 2020 FHD | i7-1165g7 | Intel Xe 96EU | 16GB LPDDR4X 4266MHz | 1Tb GB Razer Core V2 | RTX3070 | Zotac TwinOC Razer | Blade Stealth 13 2019 FHD | i7-1065g7 | GTX 1650MQ | 16GB LPDDR4 3744MHz | 512 GB | | Blade 14 2017 FHD | i7-7700HQ | GTX 1060 | 16GB DDR4 2400MHz | 512 GB | Razer Blade Stealth V2 2016 12,5 QHD | i7-7500U | HD620 | 8GB DDR3 1866MHz | 128 GB | | Blade 14 2015 IGZO QHD+ | i7–4720HQ | GT970M 3GB VRAM| 16GB DDR4 2400MHz | 256 GB | Razer Edge 2013 | i5-3317U | GT 640LE | 16GB DDR3 | 128 GB | Razer Phone 2| Razer Phone L33T Edition
Joikansai
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EmeraldBolt
ok now this is strange.. I guess I cannot overclock my GPU up to 200 Mhz, 3DMark keeps crashing.. at first I thought it was because of the undervolting(-140 which is stable 99% of the time)but then I rest the voltage and tried it with only the OC and it kept crashing, now I'm trying it with judt 150 and it hasn't crashed yet, cann I really only overclock it by 150Mhz?

Every card has different default (base) frequency clock and boost clock, for example my 1080ti (Zotac mini) max OC was +125mhz from base clock ( same with desktop setting OC value), meanwhile other with better cooling fans like rog strix should be higher, this is manufacturer OC setting. 2070 Evga Black was +180, and same card that dead before that one can manage 190 in this case it’s called silicons lottery. My current Blade 1070maxq can handle 210, meanwhile other can’t handle even 200, and some other can do +230, this is other example from gpu silicon lottery. I’m not quite detailed with Blade rtx cards OC value but you can start from +100 core and rise it every 10mhz to see its max value. Undervolting cpu would even give better score since it give more thermal room on cpu which is stressed on gpu OC. What I know since we have same cpu, stable and save undervolte value for 8750H is around-120mV.
Razer Blade 14 2021 QHD 165Hz | Ryzen 9 5900HX| RTX 3070 100W | 16GB DDR4 3200MHz | 1TB l Razer Blade 15 Advanced 2018 FHD 144Hz | i7-8750H | GTX 1070MQ | 16GB DDR4 2666MHz | 256 GB Corev2 | RTX 3070 Zotac Twin Edge OC | Razer Book 13 2020 FHD | i7-1165g7 | Intel Xe 96EU | 16GB LPDDR4X 4266MHz | 1Tb GB Razer Core V2 | RTX3070 | Zotac TwinOC Razer | Blade Stealth 13 2019 FHD | i7-1065g7 | GTX 1650MQ | 16GB LPDDR4 3744MHz | 512 GB | | Blade 14 2017 FHD | i7-7700HQ | GTX 1060 | 16GB DDR4 2400MHz | 512 GB | Razer Blade Stealth V2 2016 12,5 QHD | i7-7500U | HD620 | 8GB DDR3 1866MHz | 128 GB | | Blade 14 2015 IGZO QHD+ | i7–4720HQ | GT970M 3GB VRAM| 16GB DDR4 2400MHz | 256 GB | Razer Edge 2013 | i5-3317U | GT 640LE | 16GB DDR3 | 128 GB | Razer Phone 2| Razer Phone L33T Edition
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Anyone has experience with 4k 15" display. Do you really see the difference compare to 1080p?

One other thing that I am not sure for this razer is it s competition. Form factor was before exclusive to the blade, bit now we have a lot of thin 15 " gaming laptop.

I am curious to see how much will the competition cost and if the price difference will be justifiable.

In all the case, good job Razer, that a nice product.

May be we will see a blade pro with a 17 " screen on a 15" format:)
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I clearly should have waited. Just bought my 2018 Razer 15 a month and a half ago.
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