@@vintage0x Thunderbolt 5 has 3x the bandwith of Thunberbolt 4. In practice, this means that with a single Thunderbolt 5 cable, you can have a Thunderbolt 5 hub and plug in multiple high refresh rate 4K monitors, even multiple 8K monitors (for creative work, though I only know about the 6K Apple XDR display). Compared to that, Thunderbolt 4 is too slow and you have to either have multiple Thunderbolt 4 ports or have lower specs for monitors and such in order to fit in the Thunderbolt 4 bandwith requirements.
I am using the 2024 Razer Blade 16 and I love it! Got it for 4400€ after tax and I think that's a "good" price. I previously went through two 2024 ASUS ROG Zephyrus G16 with RTX 4090. Both overheating. One with rattling trackpad. Both had some hinge problems. I really wanted to love the Zephyrus but I just gave up. Now using the Razer Blade 16 and it just does everything I want it to do. And no weirdness so far. Undervolted performance and noise is insanely good. I recommend anyone to just undervolt. There is a lot of headroom.
I also had lots of problems with the Zephyrus G16. Did yours also randomly downclock to 800Mhz for split seconds? Caused a lot of stutter. The build quality also wasn't as good as many paid influencers claimed it to be. Eventually I settled with this years Razer Blade aswell. What undervolt settings are you running?
@@fidelisitor8953 Honestly not so impressive but expected. 1:30h Heavy After Effects workload, full brightness. 4:00h Netflix watching, full brightness. I use my Razer Blade 16 always docked. Wether its a hotel, at a clients place or here in my homestudio.
@@AlinaSweetx I'm using throttlestop, I dropped my core to -120.1 and the p cache to -90.8, I also dropped the turbo multipliers to 54 on the first 2 and then 47 on the rest, on the effiency cores I'm running 32. Basically I just kept dropping 1 by 1 till it stopped thermal throtting. The result was 31365 on cinebench and temps under 97*C on full load with much better fan noise. For MSI afterburner I just added 235 and 750 across the board and it was stable. Timespy on the 4080 with both tweaks I hit 20016 graphics/ 15720 CPU for a score of 19227, temps on this run was 97max CPU and 75max GPU.
They look so clean and not too gamerish. They are quite sober for a gamer laptop, not a god damn "aerodynamic GaMeR" with all the rgb everywhere and weird ugly shape. It looks like a windows macbook pro which is a beast. Thats the MAIN reason why I bought it
I picked up the 2023 model with a 4070 and 32GB RAM for $2599 plus 20% cash back on a portal. That's worth the deal for a premium product in my view. Also, I have a blackout setup, so I gotta have the black version!
Many reviewers use benchmark battery tests that overplay battery life significantly and are worthless as a true measure and only good for comparisons. Real life is usually a lot less. Look at MaxTech XPS 14 -v- MB Air and see how bad the XPS is when actually doing real stuff.
@@andyH_England Wrong. MaxTech was running heavy benchmarks like cinebench and 3dmark which will eat the battery way faster than web browsing or some coding in visual studio.
@@andyH_England RL is much higher than these 3 hours. I got much more for normal use compared to last years model, everyone who has this unit will agree.
Lovely looking device, but Razer still lagging behind Dell and Lenovo when it comes to onsite warranty. A real shame because warranty is so important at these price points.
Did you have dGPU mode on battery? I got much better battery time on mine and it uses less energy than the 2023 version as by several measurements proven (Notebookcheck etc)
Zephyrus g16 2024 using hard glass which is better than gorilla glass. Razer Blade using plastic screen to get easy micro scratches. Apple Macbook doesn't have gorilla glass, but using cheap glass with sprayed on screen.
What do you mean it's not meant to be used off the charger? You were using an average of 32W of power. That's way more than necessary, simply turn down the power.
Windows Hello camera is useless because of how MS implemented the login screen. If it fails, which it does regularly. You need 3 more clicks to get to Pin or password login. Shame! I would like to see the fingerprint option instead of an IR camera.
I have the 2023 model. It's good, but not the best. You will need to repaste with liquid metal to get their top tier performance. I get 22k in timespy with an undervolt. I keep it on balanced and get 18k in timespy. 64GB ram and 8TB (2x4TB) ssd. You will have to get single sided SSDs. I might buy another in 3 more years.
Sir! I tell you what, I will take a glossy panel over matt any day!!! In fact, I despise matt displays soooooo much! #1 Matt display, doesn't have less Reflections! Take a light bulb, on a glossy display, you will see a bulb, if you focus on it...Can defocus and forget about it... On a matt display, bulb = Half your screen is now a matt blurr, because of how it tries to diffuse it. #2 Colors pop so much more on a glossy screen, that matt coating is a killer for colors. Only thing that can save a matt display is a lot of NITS of brightness. Maybe it is a personal preference, but that is how I feel and now, I shall stop ranting!
It is apparent that if you are not in a rush to upgrade this year, give the current Intel and AMD a pass and wait, in the hope, that the 2025 models have upgraded dGPU and CPUs. The 14th gen from Intel is like going back to the pre-Apple Silicon days of meh upgrades, and it is apparent that significant yearly upgrade cycles are getting more complicated. Even though the M1 to M2 and M2 and M3 were not dramatic improvements, they were helpful, 15-20%. This price for the Razer is high but it is a premium device, so we cannot compare it with mid-range gaming/creator/pro machines. The XPS 16, for example, is £3300 for a 4070/32GB/1TB/OLED. The Razer is £3600 for the 4080/32GB/1TB/OLED. So, it is comparable in the premium sector along with the MB Pro 16 M3 Max (also £3600). Comparing Zephreus G16 is also £4000 for the 4090/32GB/2TB/OLED in the same ballpark. That is where we are in the premium sector; the best will all be expensive, and in 2024, with the meh Intel/AMD cycle, it is probably worth waiting for next year.
They were due to be released this year, which seems unlikely now. So, it will be the earliest next year, but whether OEMs start using it is down to Intel, I expect. Also, LPCAMM 7500 is a motherboard, so if you buy a 16GB motherboard and then want to upgrade to 32GB, you will have to buy a 32GB motherboard. Anyone doing this to try and save money will likely fail. That is assuming LPCAMM will be sold on the consumer market initially.
@@flamingkillermc2806 I had the RB17 in 2019 and that laptop was amazing. Cooling was exceptional, always ran ice cold no matter how long I gamed. I'm debating the newer RB18 because if they've improved the internals at all it'll still be amazing, and that 300Hz Mini LED screen has got to be unreal.
@@sameerparihar4350 But still more powerful than g16. I don't know man I can't decide between this 2024 blade 16 and the 2024 g16. The blade offers fully powered 175W 4080-90 and an HX CPU so it's much more powerful than the G16 and in my opinion looks better than the g16 but the g16 is thinner, lighter, has a glass display with antireflection coating and offers a way better battery life than the blade 16.
The oled is just bad. I loved the oled screen, but they still use a plastic around the oled. The screens feels like plastic, and it is 4k dollars. ANd it is always right to include the haptic touchpad, but they dont. Brainless this year.
Yeah asus used glass for their OLED and even gave it a good antireflection coating but razer decided to stick to cheap plastic for such a premium machine. Such a shame. And the trackpad should be indeed haptic for the price they charge. It's like they want to be Apple and charge Apple prices but then don't give us Apple quality. The plastic display, speakers, keyboard and trackpad are worse than the macs but they still charge mac prices.
Damn the screen is plastic? I was already annoyed that they left plastic bezels on this model, but I thought they’d at least use glass like they did on the 2021 OLED. Guess another reason to wait for 2025 and see what screen they’ll have then.
@@DistrictGroove 14/30 36g 1tb 16inch. Recently tested it with spec2017int =13700KF and spec2017fp =7950x. The best decision i made since i had my m1max. I do software development and recently got into scientific programming
@@DistrictGroove 14/30 36g 1tb 16inch base. Tested it with both SPEC2017int/fp and my numpy benchmarks. On average it came out a bit faster than a good r7 7900X but in SPECfp it was faster than a 7950X/14900K. Also most of my MT matrix benchmarks showed it being equivalent to a 14900K. I’m more than happy with the base m3max, suits my workflow perfectly and lasts all day. I can do blender if i want and dont give a f if its slower than nvidia. Btw War thunder runs extremely well with max graphics +4x msaa at native res.
@@simonnagy1 G16 uses core ultra based on intel 7nm so it's obviously getting better battery life than the 14900HX which still uses intel 10nm. Also, while the g16 has better battery life, it sacrifices majorly on performance as the 14900HX is over 50% faster than the ultra 9 185H. Maybe with 15th gen we'll get the HX CPUs on intel's 7nm which will offer better battery life for the blade 16 2025.
OLED reduces battery life on laptops. This fact may be up to 25% in some use cases (white background). @fidelisitor8953 It depends on your usage, and many reviewers get these better battery life by constantly going through the settings to tweak them. Maybe they will also have less brightness. Also, video playback will have greater battery life than working on a spreadsheet with a white background.
@@bobprendergast4304 Can you please mention What profile are you using in Synapse? Also Is it cool while gaming full load or idle? Any help or response will be helpful and appricaited. Thanks in advance.
