At CES, Razer upgrades its Blade lineup with Windows 11 and the option for new GeForce RTX 3070 Ti and RTX 3080 Ti GPUs.
Looking to upgrade your gaming laptop for 2022? Razer’s refreshed Blade lineup, unveiled today at CES, bumps the PCs up to Windows 11 and DDR5 memory, and adds the option for an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti GPU, among other things. Razer Blade 14 (2022) The 14-inch Blade was a new entrant to Razer’s lineup last year, and the first-gen version earned a PCMag Editors’ Choice award for its all-around excellence and unique positioning. This year’s refresh runs Windows 11, as well as an AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX processor. That new CPU is an eight-core,16-thread chip with a max boost up to 4.9GHz. It’s part of the Ryzen 6000 series debuting at CES today. This year’s version also adds the fingerprint-resistant coating and the 1080p IR webcam found on the larger Blade laptops, up from 720p. There’s a 1TB PCIe Gen 4 NVMe, upgradable to a 2TB SSD, plus 16GB of DDR5 memory. Ports include two USB 3.2 Type-A ports, two USB 3.2 USB-C ports (with power delivery and DisplayPort 1.4), and one HDMI 2.1 port. Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.
