03-29-2021 , 10:16 AM
Razer is set to announce a 14-inch AMD gaming laptop and, as one of the last bastions of all-Intel notebooks, that's quite a coup for the red team. We're huge fans of Razer's machines, with the Blade 15 still our pick as the best gaming laptop you can buy, and we've also got a real soft-spot for AMD's latest Ryzen 5000 mobile CPUs too.
Putting those together in a small-scale 14-inch frame has the promise to deliver the best-looking AMD gaming laptop that's ever been released. This would follow the Asus Zephyrus G14 in bringing Ryzen mobile into the criminally underused 14-inch form factor, but with Razer's pleasingly restrained, MacBook-esque aesthetic.
The rumour has hit the headlines recently thanks to serial Twitter leaker (tweaker?) @_rogame mentioning the potential Ryzen 5000-based device sporting a Ryzen 9 5900HX processor and an RTX 3060 graphics card. That's not a lot to go on, but this is a promising machine we've been teased with by our own sources close to the Razer too.
The fact that it's moving out into the twittersphere suggests that we're hitting the final stretch ahead of a full launch.
So far, the latest generation of gaming laptops, sporting the new Nvidia GeForce RTX 30-series GPUs, have almost exclusively been using old Intel notebook chips. There have been notable exceptions from Asus—the ROG Strix Scar 17 with its own 5900HX chip and the Asus TUF Dash 15 with the new Tiger Lake H35 CPU—but Razer especially has stuck with resolutely 10th Gen processors so far.
But no longer, it seems.
It's interesting that both our sources and those talking with our wee tweaker have spoken specifically about a new laptop form factor that Razer currently isn't using, which makes me think that this might not be a Blade laptop. I would expect that, owing to Razer's historical relationship with Intel, the laptop company has chosen to segment its AMD Ryzen machines so as not to be a direct rival to its existing Intel lineup.
It's not likely that we're going to see Razer Blade 15 gaming laptops with the option for an AMD Ryzen processor inside it.
More info HERE
Putting those together in a small-scale 14-inch frame has the promise to deliver the best-looking AMD gaming laptop that's ever been released. This would follow the Asus Zephyrus G14 in bringing Ryzen mobile into the criminally underused 14-inch form factor, but with Razer's pleasingly restrained, MacBook-esque aesthetic.
The rumour has hit the headlines recently thanks to serial Twitter leaker (tweaker?) @_rogame mentioning the potential Ryzen 5000-based device sporting a Ryzen 9 5900HX processor and an RTX 3060 graphics card. That's not a lot to go on, but this is a promising machine we've been teased with by our own sources close to the Razer too.
The fact that it's moving out into the twittersphere suggests that we're hitting the final stretch ahead of a full launch.
So far, the latest generation of gaming laptops, sporting the new Nvidia GeForce RTX 30-series GPUs, have almost exclusively been using old Intel notebook chips. There have been notable exceptions from Asus—the ROG Strix Scar 17 with its own 5900HX chip and the Asus TUF Dash 15 with the new Tiger Lake H35 CPU—but Razer especially has stuck with resolutely 10th Gen processors so far.
But no longer, it seems.
It's interesting that both our sources and those talking with our wee tweaker have spoken specifically about a new laptop form factor that Razer currently isn't using, which makes me think that this might not be a Blade laptop. I would expect that, owing to Razer's historical relationship with Intel, the laptop company has chosen to segment its AMD Ryzen machines so as not to be a direct rival to its existing Intel lineup.
It's not likely that we're going to see Razer Blade 15 gaming laptops with the option for an AMD Ryzen processor inside it.
More info HERE
