Razer Blade 14 review: Still the best gaming laptop for its size

An OLED screen looks great, but one of the benefits of OLED is HDR in gaming, thanks to the amazing contrast created by the ability to turn off individual pixels. OLED displays aren’t known for being bright, but this has recently been improved on laptops and notebooks External monitors. OLED screen on Lenovo legion 7i 10th generationFor example, it can be cranked up to over 1,000 nits, creating an impressive HDR effect. However, the Razer Blade 14 only maxes out at 620 nits in HDR and 377 nits in SDR. Because of this, I couldn’t tell that HDR was turned on. It’s still a beautiful display, and OLED has other advantages over IPS panels, including faster response times, less motion blur, and higher contrast.

Unfortunately, the Razer Blade 14’s OLED panel isn’t as colorful as the ones I tested it on Razer Blade 16with a color accuracy of 1.3 and 86 percent coverage of the AdobeRGB color space. also, 120 Hz refresh rate It’s the standard for OLED laptops, but you can get 240Hz speeds on laptops that use IPS, like Alienware 16X Aurorawhich happens to be a much cheaper device.

The Razer Blade 14’s biggest competition is Rouge Zephyrus G14. I haven’t tested the latest model yet, but it’s a laptop we’ve liked for years, and it’s often on sale for less than the Blade 14. The only real difference is that the Blade 14 uses a more powerful AMD processor, the Ryzen AI 9 365. Not only does it perform better in anything that’s CPU-intensive, like some games and creative applications, but it’s also a more efficient chip.

This improves battery life, at least better than a regular gaming laptop. I got 10 hours and 19 minutes on our local video playback test, which is the most you can expect to get from the device. On the other hand, Asus offers Higher power configurations for the Zephyrus G14including a device that includes the more powerful Ryzen AI 9 HX.

The RTX 5070 takes over

Photo: Luke Larsen

The bad news: RAM is no longer user-upgradable on the Razer Blade 14, so you’ll have to configure it in advance with what you need. My review unit had 32GB, but you can also choose 16GB or 64GB. Because it’s soldered, memory speeds are faster. As for internal storage, you can still get an open M.2 slot to expand the space if you need it, with support for up to 4TB.