Additional information
| Standing screen display size | 15.6 Inches |
|---|---|
| Max Screen Resolution | 1920 x 1080 Pixels |
| Processor | 4.5 GHz core_i7 |
| RAM | 16 GB DDR4 |
| Memory Speed | 2667 MHz |
| Hard Drive | Flash Memory Solid State |
| Graphics Coprocessor | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660Ti |
| Chipset Brand | NVIDIA |
| Card Description | Dedicated |
| Graphics Card Ram Size | 6 GB |
| Wireless Type | 802.11a/b/g/n/ac |
| Number of USB 2.0 Ports | 7 |
| Number of USB 3.0 Ports | 3 |
| Brand | Razer |
| Series | Blade 15 |
| Item model number | RZ09-03009E21-R3U1 |
| Hardware Platform | PC |
| Operating System | Windows 10 |
| Item Weight | 8.93 pounds |
| Product Dimensions | 13.98 x 0.78 x 9.25 inches |
| Item Dimensions LxWxH | 13.98 x 0.78 x 9.25 inches |
| Color | Black |
| Processor Brand | Intel |
| Processor Count | 6 |
| Computer Memory Type | DDR4 SDRAM |
| Flash Memory Size | 16 |
| Hard Drive Interface | USB 3.1 |
| Optical Drive Type | No Optical Drive |
| Batteries | 1 Lithium ion batteries required. (included) |
| ASIN | B087LW2KFG |
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| Best Sellers Rank | #26,211 in Computers & Accessories (See Top 100 in Computers & Accessories)#4,065 in Traditional Laptop Computers |
| Date First Available | April 30, 2020 |
Bradley Glover –
I’m absolutely delighted by my Razer Blade. It’s powerful and well designed, which is not something common in gaming laptops. Most of those laptops are chunky and obnoxious; the Blade is slick, something I’d be proud to open up in a coffee shop, but also bring to a LAN party.The performance is unquestionable. Top tier parts make for top tier performance and a top tier experience.The one caveat I must add is that the Blade can get EXTREMELY HOT when charging, specifically the bottom and on the sides of the touch pad. If you always have your laptop on a desk and use an external keyboard and mouse, then this would be no problem. Otherwise it can get a little uncomfortable on your lap, and you’ll probably want to wear some long sleeves to avoid burning your wrists.
Maria Ines –
I have only had the computer for 3 weeks, as far as it goes it works great. Strongly built. I am a photographer and videographer, so I use it for editing, it’s really fast, the size of the screen is comfortable for the postproduccion.The battery life is not so good.I’m really happy with the purchase.
CP –
I primarily purchased this laptop ( Intel Core i7-9750H 6 Core, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti, 15.6″ FHD 144H) because I was in the market for a powerhouse laptop at really good price. This was it.Direct from Amazon, I originally purchase this at $1399, but two days later it was further reduced to $1099, so I jumped on it. Luckily the first one hadn’t shipped yet and I was able to cancel the order. When you couple this laptop with Amazon’s 4 year warranty pricing it becomes possibly the best whole discounted powerhouse package that you can find in a laptop right now (June 2020). It is much cheaper than all of the competition and unlike most of the others, it is easily upgradeable.***Access to the RAM, WiFi card, and Hdd’s are right in front of you after removing a few #5 Torx screws. It’s literally a 10-15 minute project to upgrade all of those parts.***I do not use it for gaming so I cannot comment on the high heat issues that others speak of during gaming. However, I think that heat is par for the course if you are trying to game on any laptop! This especially in laptops like the Razer 15 that are still relatively thin and portable. I mean if you think about it there is a reason why true gaming systems these days are large form factor liquid cooled towers with multiple fans etc. And true gaming laptops if there is even such a thing are in the 17″ form factor with three times the thickness of the Razer. Could you game with this? Yes, I believe you can.I use this primarily for Day Trading so I ask this laptop to flex it’s muscles on a daily basis. With wired Ethernet It does so without any issues using Windows 10 Home. No hardware driver issues at all. I have this connected to a Sonnetech Breakaway Puck eGPU with AMD graphics powering 4 MSI 32″ 144 MHz monitors with zero issues. So it’s the laptop screen plus 4 monitors in all.As for RAZER build quality….I cannot speak highly enough, and I am very satisfied with their attention to simplicity and detail. I particularly like the heavy braided power cord, and mouse cord. Razer seems to be doing things right on many levels!!!It is further my opinion that it doesn’t make sense to spend twice as much on the 2020 OLED model for many reasons…! You need to do your own research on that. But it all comes back to what you want to use this laptop for and how you are going to use it.For the day traders out there, I say look no further!!!Lastly, I almost forgot to mention that battery life is decent as this particular model has a smaller battery in it due to the space that is available to add a 2.5″ HDD to the unit. But once again give some good thought as to how you are going to actually use this. In the context of this review you are not going to be doing any serious gaming and/or day trading without your power cord connected, or at the very least, on standby nearby.
Justine Ross Santos –
Been using this laptop for almost a month now and so far I have no problems with it. May it be games or productivity, the RB15 is killing it.Just a bit of a con, I noticed the my cpu runs hot above 95C when I’m playing COD MW. This is already on undervolt. When I lowered boost clocks to 3.3-3.6GHz, the CPU temp became consistent maxing ay 82C.
Sam –
This hottie makes me sweat. No with all seriousness, this machine can game. It also allows you to be productive. Is it a bit more pricey than others? Sure. But there’s a really good build quality to their products. The font on the keyboard doesn’t annoy me. At the time it was between this and the Asus G14. wow I really dislike the look of the keys and I do need a webcam for conferences sometimes. Heat, yes I just mentioned this hottie is hot. When gaming it could get hot and the battery is probably 3-4 hours depending on brightness and if you’re using the speakers. I use it for light gaming and Photoshop. If I’m gaming then I make sure to double up and set the laptop on my fan powered laptop stand. I have read the stories about the heat eventually causing the chassis to bulge. I mean she likes the bulge sometimes, but this ain’t the good kind. Anyways, it’s a really good laptop with a build quality/feel that rivals Apple. Just remember to get a fan powered laptop pad/stand if you’re going to be gaming or doing anything extensive for long periods of time.
Ryan Wilhelm –
As a laptop gamer for the better part of two decades, the rapid progress made in the mobile computing field lately has made me extremely happy. While I normally buy used laptops several years after their release to save on costs, I managed to score a deal on this Blade 15 Base, and I could *not* be happier. It’s a massive upgrade over my Blade 14 (2014) in every aspect.Everything about it screams class, from the aluminum body to the matte black finish. It runs anything you can throw at it, at the full 1080p 144hz with a little tweaking, and it doesn’t even break a sweat. Razer finally making user-upgradeable ram slots again is a welcome change from my previous Blade 14 (2014).The screen resolution, computing power, and thermal envelope all work in balance for once, not pushing too far in any area to sacrifice one of aesthetics, power, or performance. Solid recommend from me.Pros:- Runs great. No overheating even under sustained load, stays about 80*C- Beautiful finish and feel, really is a premium product. No cheap plastic flex!- User-upgradeable storage and RAM is a big win over previous models.Cons:- This is petty AF, but the up-arrow is bumped into the shift row, and it’s every bit as annoying as other reviewers say. You get used to it, but man it’s irritating.- The matte black finish, while svelte and premium, does attract fingerprints. You’ll get over that, or get a skin, or wipe it down now and then. No big deal.- Price. I’d argue it’s worth it, but my god if you find a sale, snap it up.
Jacob Jones –
Solid gaming laptop. Can run Gears 5 on all ultra settings on the 1080p screen. Only issue is the battery life. This thing is a power hog. However, I bought it as a gaming/video editing monster so I expected this. 5 Stars, everything I could have wanted in a powerful and capable device.
David Weber –
I’ve had this laptop for about a month now, and I’m surprised that in the beginning, it wasn’t my first choice. Due to COVID-19, I am going to school online and wanted something I could game on and could do homework as well. My sister got the same model: Razer Blade 15 GTX 1660 Ti i7-9750H 144Hz 15.6″ laptop, and for the sake of being different, I decided to spec out a similar Alienware M15 R1. The Alienware was extremely hot, noisy, crashed during multiple games, and the battery life was trash. When I contact Dell Support they told me that 1.5 hours was the expected battery life on their gaming PCs and that 102C was how hot they are expected to get. Anyway, I returned that and got this instead and it has been such an amazing product!What drew me to Alienware was their build quality, but honestly, this feels more premium. The Razer Blade 15 is solid, has very little flex, and has a rigid and durable body. Since thermals were one of my biggest worries, I downloaded XTU and noticed that this beautiful little device comes undervolted -100mv which helps tremendously in not generating as much heat. It’s SSD is very quick, and if you get the Base model you can put in a 2.5in HDD (you need 4 HDD screws) where the extended battery goes on the Advanced model. My battery life is around 5.75 hours with the screen at 60hz with battery saver on and medium brightness, and about 4ish hours with the screen at 144Hz. It can run Modern Warfare at about 60fps (or more, depending) in high settings with some shaders turned off, and it can run Insurgency Sandstorm at about 85fps in high settings. Running 3DMark on Steam, the way my settings are, I received a 5,388 in Time Spy with graphics at 5,655 and CPU at 4,253, and I received a score of 25,841 in Sky Diver with graphics at 45,357, Physics at 9,297, and combined at 16,592. In Synapse 3 you can assign thermal and RGB profiles to games and some applications which is neat. My only regret in not getting the Advanced model is because of the Per-Key RGB lighting that that has, so if you’re into that kind of thing, the Base model only has Single-zone RGB.Overall, this is a great product in a compact size with a premium feel, and I recommend it for anyone who is looking for a similar product.
Matthew Sanchez –
After way too much research and weighing pros and cons, I finally decided to pull the trigger on the 15″ Blade Base model (with ethernet) with GTX 1660Ti. I needed something that would be overkill as a desktop replacement in the field. This is it.Purpose: I work as a sound mixer in film production and occasionally we have musical elements that require a serious workstation. I needed a powerhouse for multi-tracking Pro Tools. I occasionally game on it, I’d say about 20% of the time, but primarily this is for sound/audio tasking in a professional environment.Pros:- specs. I love a laptop that can crush most desktops.- brilliant screen. Awesome colors, great contrast, and of course 144hz is mandatory for gaming. I can’t use 60hz anymore, even for daily office duties, I can see the flicker now, and it fatigues me.- build quality is superb. It looks fantastic, feels exceptionally well made, definitely puts MacPro aesthetic and “quality” to shame. Also, durability is expected to be top notch. When I’m shopping for new equipment, if it’s on demo in a store, I’ll go in and do drop tests; spike it into the counter, slam it around, bend the screen, mistreat it, pound the keyboard, hit the trackpad, etc. Out of everything, this felt the best. No creaking of the chassis when you pick it up at a corner, no flex when you push on the case, none of that BS.- performance is incredible. I’ve never seen it hiccup or stall on anything, even when recording 5-6 tracks in ProTools with dozens of CPU-intensive plugins running. I loaded up some massive sessions (80+ tracks) with plugins on every slot, and it still wasn’t even trying. Now I’ll even do quick edits to sessions instead of firing up the desktop rig. I don’t play Call of Dooty MW, but all the other modern and less modern games I threw at it were a cakewalk.- ports. it has the perfect combination. I have the Base model (w/ ethernet), and along with the USB-C port, there’s really no reason why you can’t match any desktop rig in terms of connectivity. I plugged in my Satechi USB-C breakout, and everything worked simultaneously.- aesthetic. I have to say it again, it looks phenomenal.Cons:(these are VERY pessimistic, like if I was in a horrible mood and someone forced me to say negative things)- despite the screen being incredible, there is *some* light bleed at the corners (3 of 4, to be exact). I understand this to be a big flaw for some people, but I don’t play visually dark games. Even when watching a dark scene in a movie, I can’t tell. It’s only on bootup when the screen is 99.99% black. Occasionally when Photoshopping I’ll notice it, but again, it’s very very minor in the overall perspective of having other colors/things on the screen.- keyboard takes getting used to. after 2 days it felt natural, but it’s not the easiest learning curve. I have a mechanical keyboard on my desktop with Cherry Browns, so the contrast couldn’t be more extreme, but I can flip flop between the two with no problem now. Also, per other peoples’ comments, the arrows are definitely misplaced; they need to be moved one button/column over to the right, or swapped with the shift key.- battery life is pretty bad. But, this IS a gaming machine/desktop replacement. With screen brightness cranked and playing an intensive game, I can barely make it over 2 hours. Day to day office use with screen brightness set moderately, I can pull maybe 4-5 hours. It does recharge quickly, however.- fans. they’re definitely there. this would be a legit negative trait. If you’re in a bone quiet room doing emails and youtube, you’ll barely hear them. But, if you’re gaming, they get pretty loud. For the performance, this is a small caveat.- lid logo, this is the only other real “negative” quality for me. In a professional setting, I can’t have it glowing, as much as I personally do love it. I skinned it with the matte black cover from SopiGuard. Still looks awesome.Again, I just want to reiterate these cons are subtle at their worst. I wanted to give a thorough breakdown of the bad qualities, as mild as they are.Overall: If you can afford it, do it. Get the 4-year warranty through Amazon (Asurion) so you have nothing to lose. I turn on the desktop rig significantly less now, when it’s so easy to reach for the Blade and get work done. I’m not a brainless Razer fanatic by any means, but I have to admit, this is the best option out there right now, and I’m becoming a fan.
Dakota –
There’s a lot of mixed reviews out there for this thing. Yes, it does get warmish/hot… its a gaming laptop…you can’t have crazy specs, be super thin, light, and expect the computer to stay cool with the amount of space to regulate the temps. Same thing goes for the fans, of course they’re gonna kick in while you’re playing…you put stress on all the performing parts, so the fan’s RPMs need to increase in order to keep the parts cool. For battery, I think it’s sufficient, you shouldn’t be playing AAA games on ultra settings not plugged in anyways. Just browsing the internet on battery savings mode you’ll hit around 6 hours on a full battery, which is enough for me. The build quality is top notch, track pad is amazing, looks awesome, no regrets. The only thing I wish this laptop had was the ability for 64GB of RAM (only 32, the advanced model has the capabilities of 64GB), but I wanted an ethernet port more, so it was a trade off. Overall, I’m glad I purchased it.UPDATE: The battery became swollen after a year of use. I’d assume it’s because I leave it plugged in even when I’m not using it. Razer offered to replace it for me, but I opted out since I’d be without my laptop for a couple weeks. I ended up just removing the battery and leaving it plugged in. If you’re like me I suggest removing the battery and putting it back in when you decide to take it somewhere. Still no regrets though, the battery thing was my fault.