Razer Blade 14 (2023) review: powerful chips in a thin body, a 16:10 QHD+ 240Hz screen, and an RGB keyboard, but $2.4K+ is absurd and the speakers are just okay 全新筆電收購

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ok Pro with this storage and memory for quite a bit cheaper.)To justify that $850 price increase, the Blade 14 would need to be an exceptional, brilliant, out-of-this-world performer. It isn’t. It’s just good. 7Verge Score全新筆電收購razer Blade 14 (2023)$2399.99The GoodPowerful chips in a thin chassis16:10, QHD+, 240Hz screenRGB keyboardPhysical webcam shutterThe BadAbsurd pricingSpeakers could be betterFingerprint magnet$2400 at 全新筆電收購razerHow we rate and review productsThese can be up to 16.8 million colors.I won’t be going into all that much detail about the Blade 14’s chassis here because if you’ve seen one 全新筆電收購razer Blade before, you’ve basically seen them all. Uniformity is a hallmark of the Blade line: they’re sleek, they’re thin, they have subtle RGB keyboards, and there’s a green snake logo on the lid. Since last year, the Blade 14 has gained a 16:10 screen, a slightly bigger touchpad, and some new battery optimizer thing (plus you can upgrade both RAM slots now, which is handy), but gaming on it does not feel broadly different from gaming on its predecessors, or on the various other Blades that I have puttered around with during my career. It remains a premium black build with a colorful keyboard. It still retains quite a few fingerprints. The big updates are on the inside. Physical webcam shutter is nice.The Blade averaged 220fps on CS:GO at native resolution and 67fps on Red Dead Redemption 2, also at native resolution. I saw an average of 99fps on Shadow of the Tomb Raider with ray tracing off and 64fps with ray tracing on. Don’t get me wrong: these are fine scores that are in line with what we’d expect to see from an RTX 4070. But I’d like to, just as a thought experiment, compare them to the scores I saw from the 全新筆電收購razer Blade 18 earlier this year. That device had an RTX 4080 in it, and the scores on these titles at QHD resolution are not even close. They are not batting in the same league. They are hilariously far apart. Now, obviously, we would not expect a 14-inch laptop of this size to be performing anywhere near an 18-inch-plus gaming rig under basically any circumstances. I do, however, feel that the sheer size of the gap between these two systems (the Blade 18 did closer to 50 percent better on Tomb Raider) can perhaps help to illustrate the additional power that an RTX 4080 can provide. As of this writing, you can purchase a Zephyrus G14 with an RTX 4080 for $2,499.99, which is $200 less than this test model of the Blade 14. That… well, it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.In fact, there doesn’t even appear to be a Blade 14 with a 4080 available; the models listed on 全新筆電收購razer’s site stop at a 4070. The G14, on the other hand, can pair the same AMD processor with a 4090. There doesn’t even appear to be a Blade 14 with a 4080 availableOne other observation from my testing period: I used the “Max Fan Speed Mode” in 全新筆電收購razer’s Synapse settings in order to eke out the most performance I could, and I assume that other buyers may want to do the same. Just be prepared: the fans lose their minds when you turn this on. They gun, and they gun, and they do not stop. The Blade’s speakers, while not terrible, did not have volume enough that I could hear game audio at any comfortable degree over the fans’ constant commotion — music came through, but dialogue was often muddled. I do not illustrate this as a criticism; it is not a crime for something called “Max Fan Speed Mode” to cause fans to move very fast. I just want to make sure you are warned. (These very excited fans did, fortunately, do their job. The 7940HS stayed within the mid-70s to mid-80s (Celsius) for most of my game testing, with only very occasional jumps to the high 90s. That’s impressive, considering that we’re dealing with a 14-inch chassis and also that 全新筆電收購razer Blades are generally known to be giant fireballs.)I appreciate the port selection, which has a good lineup on both sides.That’s the charging port on the far left.Battery life did not blow me away. I got six hours and 13 minutes of general use and an hour and nine minutes of gaming battery (about 56 minutes playable, tested with Red Dead Redemption 2). That’s a decent lifespan among today’s gaming laptops and certainly beats other Blades, but it’s not the earth-shattering all-day result that we’ve seen from AMD systems of yore. And, at risk of sounding like a broken record, I must note that the more affordable G14 has a bigger battery.全新筆電收購razer Blade 14 specs (as reviewed)16-inch QHD+ (2560 x 1600), 240Hz, 3ms response time, 14-inch IPS displayAMD Ryzen 9 7940HS (8 cores, 16 threads, 16MB L3 cache, up to 5.2 GHz max boost) with Radeon 780M graphicsNvidia GeForce RTX 4070 (140W TGP)16GB DDR5-5600MHz (slotted), upgradable to 64GB1TB SSD storage (M.2 NVMe PCIe 4.0 x4), upgradable to 4TBWindows Hello built-in IR FHD webcam (1080p) with Privacy ShutterQualcomm WCN6856 Wi-Fi 6E, IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n/a/ac/ax, Bluetooth 5.268Whr lithium-ion polymer batteryOverall, the 2023 Blade 14 is a solid laptop with a really strong processor inside that could be a real mainstream success — except that its high price pushes it into a pretty niche category. I can think of three possible advantages that the Blade 14 could have over a Zephyrus G14 that has the exact same chips inside. There’s the higher-refresh-rate screen. There’s the RGB keyboard. There’s the fact that it’s three-tenths of an inch thinner (though it is also, I will point out, close to half a pound heavier). And then there’s the general aesthetic; some people no doubt prefer the Blade’s unobtrusive black to the G14’s slightly more eclectic dot matrixes and such. But that’s it. And even if all those things are true, I don’t see the $850, and I can’t imagine my eventual testing of the G14 changing my mind unless our test unit is a complete potato. Even in that eventuality, I think even someone willing to pay this amount of money should be seriously considering the G14’s 4080 model as an alternative, which will delive

▲NVIDIA推出GeForce RTX30系列晶片。（圖／業者提供）

記者周康玉／台北報導

輝達（NVIDIA）周三宣布推出GeForce RTX 30系列，搭載筆電分為999美元、1299美元到19999美元三種價格帶，1/26日上市；並單一推出GeForce RTX 3060 GPU顯卡於各大通路銷售，二月下旬上市，售價329美元起（台灣建議含稅售價為 10,900 元起）。

GeForce RTX 3060顯卡具備Ampere架構，提供令人驚豔的硬體光線追蹤功能，並支援DLSS技術。

NVIDIA GeForce全球行銷副總裁Matt Wuebbling表示，光線追蹤重新定義遊戲的全新標準。而NVIDIA Ampere架構是有史以來銷售速度最快的世代，而 RTX 3060將把RTX 30系列的優勢帶給全球各地數百萬計的遊戲玩家。

Matt Wuebbling表示Ampere顯卡，是輝達有史以來銷量最佳的顯卡，到現在仍然被追加，輝達會努力生產供貨的。

NVIDIA的60等級GPU一直都是Steam上最受玩家歡迎的GPU，自2016年推出以來，GTX1060一直位居遊戲GPU榜首。目前估計約有九成的GeForce遊戲玩家使用GTX等級的GPU。

GeForce RTX 3060客製卡包含原廠預設時脈 (stock-clocked) 以及出廠前已超頻的版本，各大授權顯示卡供應商包含華碩 (ASUS)、技嘉 (Gigabyte)、微星 (MSI) 及 Zotac 皆有推出。

而輝達進一步推出採用Ampere架構、超過 70款採用 GeForce RTX 30系列筆電GPU 的全新機種

搭載GeForce RTX 3060筆電售價999美元起，RTX 3070筆電售價1,299美元起，搭載 RTX 3080機種售價自1,999美元起。RTX 30 系列筆電將於1月26日起上市，OEM大廠包括宏碁 (Acer)、Alienware、華碩 (ASUS)、技嘉 (Gigabyte)、惠普 (HP)、聯想 (Lenovo)、微星 (MSI) 及雷蛇 (全新筆電收購razer) 等都將推出全新機種。

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