{"id":795903,"date":"2025-12-04T04:32:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T04:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kRMzxoMXa4cUtMuxu5fh6K"},"modified":"2025-12-04T04:32:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T04:32:06","slug":"razer-blade-14-2024-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/razer-blade-14-2024-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Razer Blade 14 (2024) review"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Razer Blade 14 (2024) is a highly desirable gaming laptop. It's the sort-of laptop that feels almost like bragging to use openly in a public space. It's practically a status symbol. The competition hasn't been able to emit that same star quality. Yet Razer does face significantly sterner competition this year than it has ever before: namely from the ROG Zephyrus G14 (2024)<\/a> and, to a lesser degree, the HP Omen Transcend 14<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I'll be focusing on the more competitive Zephyrus G14 for comparison with the Blade 14 in this review. It's muscling in on Razer's airspace with a fantastic chassis design, premium materials and a gorgeous OLED screen\u2014it feels more a laptop aimed at the high-end laptop market dominated by Razer today than the Transcend. More than that, however, I recently posted my Zephyrus G14 review, in which I look at a model of that laptop with nearly the same specifications as the Blade 14 before me now: an enviable combination of AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS and Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Mobile.<\/p>\n

So, why should you choose the Blade 14?<\/p>\n

The obvious answer is for its performance. Razer is able to run the RTX 4070 within the Blade 14 at the maximum wattage available for the mobile GPU. That's 140 watts\u2014a 115-watt base TGP plus the option for a 25-watt afterburner. That's significantly higher than the Zephyrus at 90 watts. That has a big impact on performance. On average the Blade 14 is 18% faster at 1080p and 13% faster at 1440p.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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CPU:<\/strong>\u00a0AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS
\nGPU:<\/strong>\u00a0Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 (140W)
\nMemory:<\/strong>\u00a032GB DDR5-5600
\nStorage:\u00a0<\/strong>1TB NVMe SSD
\nScreen size:\u00a0<\/strong>14-inch IPS
\nResolution:<\/strong>\u00a02560 x 1600
\nRefresh rate:<\/strong>\u00a0240Hz
\nBattery:<\/strong>\u00a068.1 Whr
\nDimensions:<\/strong>\u00a021.99 x 244 \u00a0x 355 mm (0.87 x 9.61 x 13.98-inches)
\nWeight:<\/strong>\u00a02.45 kg \/ 5.40 lbs
\nPrice:<\/strong>\u00a0$2,700<\/a> | \u00a32,700<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

What's more is you'll feel an even bigger difference between the performance on the Blade 14 and the G14 at default settings, due to their different native resolutions. The Blade 14 comes with a 2560 x 1600 IPS display and the G14 a 2880 x 1800 OLED display. The former can reach up to 240Hz, the latter only 120Hz.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I ran some tests at both these laptop's native resolution as this feels a more realistic benchmark of how most users will actually game on these machines. The results aren't at all surprising. The Blade 14, for pushing fewer pixels around, is over 30% faster than the G14. The Razer is firmly the faster gaming laptop in every regard.<\/p>\n

The flipside is that Blade 14's IPS screen is a lower resolution than the G14's OLED. And I prefer the G14's for other reasons: key among them due to its OLED panel technology. This offers a rich colour and incredible contrast and it is highly engrossing on even a smaller 14-inch panel.<\/p>\n

Though I will also defend the Blade 14's screen here. As far as LCD laptop panels are concerned it's one of the best around. If it wasn't for the fact it was going up against an OLED, I would be over the moon with its picture quality. The Blade 14's IPS panel also means there's no major threat of burn-in (unless you really try), which I would still be cautious about with an OLED. The alternative is Mini-LED, and we have seem some really fantastic Mini-LED panels in laptops including last year's Zephyrus G14 (2023)<\/a>, but Razer hasn't brought the backlighting tech down to a 14-inch laptop yet.<\/p>\n

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Though there's not a huge amount of difference between AMD's newest 8040-series and the 7040-series, the CPU within the Blade 14 is about as new as it gets today. The Ryzen 9 8945HS offers eight cores and 16 threads at up to 5.2 GHz boost. That's pretty great firepower to throw at whatever you could reasonably ask of this laptop. Cinebench and Blender benchmarks show off its single-threaded and multithreaded chops and it's plenty capable of acting as an on-the-move video editing machine.<\/p>\n

The CPU is not just a CPU, however. It comes with a low-power GPU component on the same chip, the Radeon 780M. That might seem frivolous considering the hulking RTX 4070 stuffed beside it but it offers the added benefit of a low-power alternative to that chip, capable of running 3D applications and some games. Your laptop takes care of most of this automatically, through Nvidia Optimus, but battery life, acoustics and thermals are improved if you're able to use the 780M rather than RTX 4070. This is the same chip that powers some handheld gaming PCs and it's powerful enough to run plenty of games at 1080p.<\/p>\n