❌ You're after top performance: limited to the RTX 4070, and by the compact chassis, you're not going to get the absolute highest frame rates out of the Nvidia silicon. It's nowhere near the levels of the worst offenders, such as the MSI Titan, or even the Blade 16 we tested, but it's definitely audible without a good gaming headset. So, does that extra girth make it quieter? Well, without having the units side-by-side, it's hard to tell-certainly on the top performance mode, running a visually demanding game at full resolution does make it a little shouty. And I'm very much into the extra height a 2560 x 1600 laptop display gives you. I mean, it's not a mini-LED like you'll find in the Acer Helios 16, or the Asus Zephyrus M16, but it's as good as the panel in the Lenovo for sure. And I'm okay with that if it gives us a little extra cooling (and therefore quiet) and means I get that 16:10 display. We're only talking millimetres here, so the Blade 14 still feels like a compact notebook. The chassis is a bit thicker, a bit longer, and a bit wider. Like me, it's gathered a little extra timber as it's gotten older. It is also a slightly different machine to the previous two Blade 14 laptops Razer released in 20 respectively. The discrete Nvidia GPU inside the Blade 14 is also going to gobble down juice like a thirsty tramp, and that makes for a bad time away from a plug socket, but switching over to the iGPU instead will give you a little longer gaming uptime on battery. That's the same 12CU RDNA 3 graphics silicon you get in both the ROG Ally and AOKZOE A1 Pro gaming handhelds, and it actually delivers impressive 1080p gaming frame rates. I also appreciate the fact the Ryzen 9 7940HS ships with the Radeon 780M iGPU inside it. It's a slick 240Hz display, too, and it looks great at this scale. Though, taking the relative benchmarking out of the picture for a second, those components are still able to deliver a great gaming experience, even at the native 2560 x 1600 resolution of the pin-sharp 14-inch panel Razer's stuck in this thing. Dammit, I'm not going to say it's about the holistic experience, but we are talking about a genuinely premium high-end system as a whole, and not just about its individual components. But, at the risk of sounding like Razer's marketing department, the Blade 14 isn't about raw gaming performance.
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