• avant-hier
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00:00All right, so the moment I heard about this device, I wanted to make a video for you guys badly, because it was such a cool laptop to me.
00:07And this is probably going to be one of the most interesting devices we've seen this year in terms of the gaming laptop space.
00:12So this is the AMD-based Blade 14 from Razer.
00:18Now, AMD-based gaming laptops are not super special or rare at this point in time.
00:23Every company is doing it, right? Acer, Asus, Alienware, MSI, they all have these AMD-based gaming laptops.
00:30Which is a good thing to see, and finally Razer's gone on board.
00:33But what makes this one special is that this configuration has never been done before.
00:38So what Razer has is the top-spec GPU, like an RTX 3080, equipped with the AMD 5900HX.
00:50It's a step above the chip that's been seen in basically every other thin and light gaming laptop out there, which is the HS or the H variant.
00:57This is the HX, an unlocked, overclockable AMD chip, and it's all packaged in this thin gaming laptop.
01:06This is just a 14-inch gaming laptop. It's kind of crazy what's going on here.
01:09Like the engineering to make this happen is quite impressive.
01:12You put it beside like a 15-inch, like this is the 15-inch Razer Blade Advance or the Studio Edition, like you can see the difference in size.
01:19It's very small, very compact.
01:21Now, in order to make this happen, this was not simple, right?
01:25If it was, everyone would be doing a thin, high-powered device like this.
01:28But it's actually quite complex.
01:29For like the past year, we've been wanting Razer to put an AMD chip inside their device,
01:34and it seems like they were brewing something that was special.
01:37They were brewing this device.
01:39Now, when you pop it open, you have your standard kind of Razer fare.
01:43You have your RGB keyboard. It's a chiclet-style keyboard.
01:45This doesn't actually feel all that cramped.
01:47I thought it would because they have the speaker cutouts on the side still, and the keyboard shrunk a little bit.
01:52But it feels very familiar to me if you've used a Razer laptop keyboard.
01:56You also have their standard glass trackpad.
01:58This is a nice trackpad.
01:59And you also have a 14-inch screen.
02:01You get two options.
02:02There's a 1440p version as well as a 1080p version.
02:05And there's also a webcam up top that supports Windows Hello.
02:09So you can log in with face bar metrics.
02:11These are very fast screens.
02:12And even on this pre-production unit, I'm not seeing any kind of ghosting or artifacting that we've seen on other 14-inch gaming laptops.
02:19Yeah, I think this is a well-rounded package.
02:22Now, I want to talk about those two components in a little bit more detail.
02:25So the CPU and the GPU and what makes it special.
02:29So in the traditional kind of thin and light gaming laptop space,
02:32if they're using an AMD chip in there, they're using either 5800H or 5900HS.
02:37Both very capable chips, but they're just kind of the standard fare.
02:42I say standard. It's still like high-end stuff, but it's like the regular AMD chips.
02:46This is running the HX, the unlocked overclockable chip.
02:49So the boost clock is higher at the top end, but even the base clock is faster.
02:53It's like 10% faster than the regular chips.
02:56But what's most interesting to me is that they've also paired this with an RTX 3080 at the top end.
03:02You can equip it with the fastest mobile GPU out there.
03:05And the question is like, how?
03:07How are they doing this?
03:08It doesn't make sense to me.
03:10I mean, everyone wants that.
03:11Every gaming laptop would love to stick the fastest, most powerful components inside it and sell it.
03:15But you can't do it.
03:16There's thermal limitations, right?
03:18How did they pull this off?
03:19Now, this is a pre-production unit.
03:21So I can't run any kind of extensive testing or proper benchmarking on it.
03:25But when I pop it open, you can see the presence of the vapor chamber.
03:28This is tech that they've used in a lot of their high-end devices.
03:31It's just a method of cooling the chips a little bit more effectively than a regular heat pipe.
03:35But there's a couple other things I want to draw your attention to.
03:38Razer in the past has done this thing where they lower the CPU clock speed just a smidge
03:44to keep the temperatures down.
03:45And it's quite effective.
03:46It keeps their systems cooler and quieter than a lot of other competitors.
03:50But the clock speeds have been dropped a smidge.
03:52And the fact that Synapse controls the power distribution, like between the CPU and the GPU,
03:57I think that Razer can do it.
03:59I think that Razer can make this product and make it a functional, viable performance laptop
04:05in a small form factor with all those high-end components in it.
04:08It's pretty cool.
04:10Now, there are a couple of things that I think you should be aware of if you're interested in this device.
04:13Number one, when I popped it open, the RAM is soldered on.
04:16And it seems to be limited to 16 gigabytes, which is, I think it's great for gaming.
04:20But if you're a content creator, extra RAM is always nice.
04:23The other thing, it only comes in black.
04:25And I'm partial to, not just for like the white color for the aesthetic,
04:28but I've always found that black Razer laptops, they nick.
04:31Like they show the silver material, like the aluminum, underneath the anodization pretty easily
04:37if you damage it.
04:38And I don't like that.
04:39There's always skins and stuff you can get for this device.
04:40But a single color of black, eh.
04:43You know what would have been awesome?
04:45If they did that gray color again.
04:46That like titanium gray, whatever they did a few years ago.
04:49Gray version of this with 32 gigs of RAM, I would buy one immediately, like 100%.
04:54Okay, but that's the new Razer Blade 14.
04:57It's pretty fly.
04:59So there's a couple of the things that they announced today.
05:01So there's the updated version of the Razer Raptor,
05:03the 27-inch gaming monitor with the green cables that flow at the back.
05:07That's been refreshed.
05:08And there's also this thing, the 130-watt GaN charger.
05:11This is based off of gallium nitride.
05:13And it's a very compact AC adapter for laptops or phones,
05:17whatever you have that you want to charge.
05:20But that's the E3 announcement from Razer.
05:22They pumped out a bunch of hardware.
05:24This device, the Razer Blade 14, I am excited for.
05:28I want this to be my personal device.
05:30I want to use it in my regular workflow.
05:32So I'll be doing a proper review on that in the near future.
05:34So stay tuned for that.
05:36Okay, hope you guys enjoyed this video.
05:37Thumbs if you liked it, subs if you loved it.
05:39See you guys next time.