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At a glanceExpert`s Rating Pros Thin, light, and compact Solid gaming performance Beautiful OLED display Premium quality all around Cons Expensive Bulkier gaming laptops will perform better Our Verdict The Razer Blade 14 delivers high gaming performance in cool, quiet, compact package with premium build quality. Its OLED display is beautiful, too. But it’s expensive. Price When Reviewed This value will show the geolocated pricing text for product undefined Best Pricing Today Best Prices Today: Razer Blade 14 (2025) Retailer Price Check Price comparison from over 24,000 stores worldwide Product Price Price comparison from Backmarket Best Prices Today: Check today’s prices The Razer Blade 14 is a 14-inch gaming laptop that’s not much larger, thicker, or heavier than the average laptop. From the snappy keyboard to the quiet fans to the beautiful display, everything works as well as I hoped it would. This machine delivers exactly what it promises. Best of all, you don’t have to choose between power and portability. Razer Blade 14: Specs The Razer Blade 14 is a premium 14-inch gaming laptop that comes with an AMD Ryzen AI HX 365 CPU, based on AMD’s Zen 5 architecture. Our review unit was a $2,699 model that comes with Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 graphics, 32GB of LPDDR5X RAM, and a 1TB SSD. (It also has AMD Radeon 880M graphics, to save power when the beefy Nvidia GPU isn’t needed.) Razer also offers a lower-end $2,299 model that comes with RTX 5060 graphics and 16 GB of RAM along with a $2,999 model that includes 64 GB of RAM and a 2 TB SSD. AMD’s Ryzen AI hardware comes with an NPU, so you get access to Copilot+ PC AI features on this laptop. Model number: Razer Blade 14 (2025) CPU: AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 Memory: 32GB LPDDR5X RAM Graphics/GPU: Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 and AMD Radeon 880M NPU: AMD NPU (up to 50 TOPS) Display: 2880×1800 OLED display with 120Hz refresh rate Storage: 1TB PCIe Gen4 SSD Webcam: 1080p webcam Connectivity: 2x USB Type-C (USB4), 2x USB Type-A (USB 3.2 Gen 2), 1x combo audio jack, 1x HDMI 2.1, 1x microSD slot, 1x power port, 1x Kensington lock slot Networking: Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 5.4 Biometrics: IR camera for Windows Hello Battery capacity: 72 Watt-hours Dimensions: 12.23 x 8.83 x 0.62 inches Weight: 3.59 pounds MSRP: $2,699 as tested The Razer Blade 14 is an excellent gaming laptop in a small package. If you want premium build quality, great gaming performance, and a beautiful display in a compact 14-inch laptop package, it’s a great option. Razer Blade 14: Design and build quality IDG / Chris Hoffman The 14-inch Razer Blade 14 is the most compact gaming laptop Razer offers, alongside the larger Razer Blade 16 and Razer Blade 18. Razer says this is the thinnest Blade 14 it’s ever created, and at 0.62 inches thick and 3.59 pounds, it’s unusually portable for a gaming laptop with Nvidia GeForce graphics. The build quality is excellent — the chassis is made of solid aluminum, the hinge is smooth and easy to open with one hand, and it keeps the display solidly in place without any jostling during gaming sessions. Our review model, with its silver-toned “Mercury White” color has a surprisingly understated design for a gaming laptop. It’s all silver and black with a very restrained Razer logo on the lid. There are no blinking LEDs here — aside from the keyboard backlighting. With per-key LED lighting, you can create animated rainbow LED effects on the keyboard — or just switch it to pure white light for stealth mode. It looks professional and will blend in as a “normal” laptop to anyone who doesn’t recognize the Razer logo on the lid. Razer Blade 14: Keyboard and trackpad IDG / Chris Hoffman The Razer Blade 14 has an awesome keyboard that feels great to use. On paper, the 1mm key travel isn’t a lot. But Razer also says the keys have 63g actuation force. That combination translates to a snappy keyboard experience without a lot of travel. The keyboard here also supports per-key backlighting, so you can customize the color of each key in the Razer Chroma app — or activate complex animations. It’s the kind of thing that makes the laptop feel even more premium, and it lets you activate that rainbow LED “gamer” aesthetic — but only if you want it, and without blinking LEDs elsewhere on the laptop. The Razer Blade 14’s trackpad is great. It’s extremely wide and comes right up to the lip of the laptop, and it’s smooth and responsive. Palm rejection is very good, so I didn’t have a problem with it getting in the way while playing games, despite its size. I’d prefer a haptic trackpad, but it’s fine. The click-down action feels great — and it’s quiet, which is underrated when many laptop trackpads make loud clicking sounds — but a haptic trackpad means that the top part of the trackpad would be clickable, too. Razer Blade 14: Display and speakers IDG / Chris Hoffman The Razer Blade 14 has an absolutely beautiful 14-inch display. It’s a 2880×1800 OLED display, and it produces incredibly vivid colors. At a 120Hz refresh rate, it’s also nice and smooth. I do wish it supported HDR — and you can get higher refresh rate displays if you choose a laptop with an IPS display instead — but this display looks amazing. I’m a big fan of OLED displays, and this is a great one. The Razer Blade 14’s speakers sound great for a laptop. The weapon-firing sounds in DOOM: The Dark Ages sounded nice and punchy. In music, there’s surprisingly crisp instrument separation in Steely Dan’s Aja for laptop speakers. Playing Daft Punk’s Get Lucky, there’s a fun sound with a bit of bass. The volume level is good, although I’ve heard much louder laptop speakers; it’s good but doesn’t have the loudest top-end volume I hear on other laptops. Bass is the one thing that’s lacking compared to a good pair of headphones or external speakers, but there’s enough bass to make the speakers usable. (Still, a good pair of headphones or external speakers will be a big upgrade to your gaming or multimedia experience.) Razer Blade 14: Webcam, microphone, biometrics The 1080p webcam included here is surprisingly good. It delivers a clear picture with good color reproduction — nothing grainy or washed out. And, because this is a Copilot+ PC, you get access to the AI webcam tweaks in Windows Studio Effects. The microphone sounds clear and has good noise reduction, but the audio could be a bit clearer. It’s no big deal. But, while I’d be happy using the built-in webcam for video meetings, I’d definitely prefer to use an external mic for gaming sessions. The Razer Blade 14 has an IR camera for Windows Hello, and it works well. I prefer these to fingerprint readers: It’s nice to open your laptop and have it automatically sign in when it sees your face. Razer Blade 14: Connectivity IDG / Chris Hoffman The Razer Blade 14 has a compelling selection of ports for a 14-inch laptop — including two USB Type-C ports (USB4 speeds) and two USB Type-A ports (USB 3.2 Gen 2 speeds). On the left, you’ve got a power port along with a USB Type-C port, USB Type-A port, and combo audio jack. On the right, you’ll see a microSD card reader, a second USB Type-C port, a second USB Type-A port, an HDMI 2.1 out port, and a Kensington lock slot. That’s about all you could want here — the only thing you could ask for is an Ethernet port, and I doubt one would physically fit here given the size of the laptop! This laptop also has Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 5.4 support, making it nice and future proof for the latest standards. I had no problem with the Wi-Fi. Razer Blade 14: Performance The Razer Blade 14 performed great in both gaming and real-world desktop use — naturally. The cooling system works well and blasts the hot air out of the back of the machine, not out of the sides where it would blow on your mouse hand. The keyboard stays surprisingly cool for a gaming laptop. The metal above the F key row can become rather hot while gaming, so that’s where so much of the heat is being redirected to. It ran DOOM: The Dark Ages great, with smooth gameplay even on high graphical detail settings. And the fans stayed surprisingly quiet for a compact gaming laptop that needs to vent a lot of heat, too — no loud whirring jet engine noise, as with some gaming laptops. As always, we ran the Razer Blade 14 through our standard benchmarks to see how it performs compared to competing laptops. IDG / Chris Hoffman First, we run PCMark 10 to get an idea of overall system performance. With an overall PCMark 10 score of 7,994, this machine delivered similar overall performance to the 16-inch Razer Blade 16 on this benchmark and only fell a bit short of the HP Omen Max 16 with its higher-end and more power-hungry Intel Core Ultra 9 CPU. IDG / Chris Hoffman Next, we run Cinebench R20. This is a heavily multithreaded benchmark that focuses on overall CPU performance. Since it’s heavily multithreaded, CPUs with more cores have a huge advantage. With a multithreaded score of 7,800, this system delivered good numbers — falling short of systems with more cores, naturally. The AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 chip here has 10 cores, while the 370 chip in the Razer Blade 16 has 12 cores. The Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX has a whopping 24 cores. You can see how that affects performance in multithreaded CPU benchmarks, but the difference in real-world gaming performance can be marginal. IDG / Chris Hoffman We also run an encode with Handbrake. This is another heavily multithreaded benchmark, but it runs over an extended period. This demands the laptop’s cooling kick in, and many laptops will throttle and slow down under load. The Razer Blade 14 completed the encode process in 789 seconds — that’s just over 13 minutes. Once again, only laptops with CPUs that have more cores performed better. IDG / Chris Hoffman Next, we benchmark the laptop’s GPU. We start with 3Dmark Time Spy, a graphical benchmark that focuses on GPU performance. With a 3DMark Time Spy score of 13,069, the Razer Blade 14 sits in the middle here. Laptops with Nvidia RTX 5080 or 5090 graphics will of course be faster — but it’s harder to pack a higher-end GPU in a compact machine! Compared to the other 14-inch laptops in our benchmark table, you can see how much faster Razer’s machine is than an older gaming laptop with Nvidia RTX 4060 graphics. After that, we run the benchmarks built into some games. First, we use the benchmark in Shadow of the Tomb Raider to test all the gaming laptops we review. It’s an older game, but it’s a great way to compare GPU performance across different PCs. IDG / Chris Hoffman With an average FPS of 161, the Razer Blade 14 delivered high performance. As you can see, this older game is seeing diminishing returns from higher-end GPUs. Finally, we run the benchmark in Metro Exodus. This is a more demanding game, and we set the benchmark to 1080p resolution at the Extreme detail setting. IDG / Chris Hoffman With an average FPS of 56 in this high-end Metro Exodus benchmark, the Razer Blade 14 delivered playable performance even at these brutal graphical settings.  Of course, it comes in behind larger 16-inch laptops with higher-end GPUs. Overall, the Razer Blade 14 delivered high gaming performance in a compact package with great cooling and quiet fans. This is a great combination of performance and portability if you’re looking for a 14-inch laptop. Razer Blade 14: Battery life The Razer Blade 14 includes a 72 Watt-hour battery. Gaming laptops generally aren’t known for their long battery life, but AMD’s Ryzen AI hardware can be surprisingly power efficient, and that’s what we see here. This isn’t going to put up the kind of numbers you see from low-power Qualcomm Snapdragon X or Intel Lunar Lake laptops, but it’s much more power efficient than you might expect in light usage. IDG / Chris Hoffman To benchmark the battery life, we play a 4K copy of Tears of Steel on repeat on Windows 11 with airplane mode enabled and the keyboard backlight turned off until the laptop suspends itself. This is a best-case scenario for any laptop since local video playback is so efficient, and real battery life in day-to-day use is always going to be less than this. We set the screen to 250 nits of brightness for our battery benchmarks, and it’s worth noting that the Razer Blade 14’s OLED display has a bit of an advantage, as OLED screens use less power to display the black bars around the video. The Razer Blade 14 lasted for 680 minutes in our benchmark — that’s over 11 hours. Real-world battery life will vary, but this is a great battery life number to see out of a gaming laptop that’s all about power. Razer Blade 14: Conclusion The Razer Blade 14 is an excellent gaming laptop in a small package. If you want premium build quality, great gaming performance, and a beautiful display in a compact 14-inch laptop package, it’s a great option. Yes, it’s expensive at $2,699. That’s the big downside — although it was on sale for $2,299 on Razer’s online store while I was finishing this review. 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Welcome to The Full Nerd newsletter—your weekly dose of hardcore hardware talk from the enthusiasts at PCWorld. Missed the hot topics on our YouTube show or latest buzz from across the web? I’ve got you covered. Want this newsletter to come directly to your inbox? Sign up on our website! This past week, Adam published a look back at the past few decades of PC component history, through the lens of my colleague Gordon Mah Ung’s career. The memories stretch from the mid-1990s (including Gordon in a full suit and tie) to the present day of contests for the slowest benchmark results. And by the end, I could see other people latching on to “change” as the biggest theme throughout. The visual evidence is there: the move from beige boxes to bright, even obnoxiously colored chassis; shifting case configurations and attitudes toward cable management (oh, for the days when we could shove everything inside and just slap the side panel back on); even the leap to ferocious high core-count processors and screaming-fast graphics cards. Vintage Alienware.Willis Lai / Foundry But while others could argue that change has been the constant in computer hardware, I’d instead champion ATX as one of the truest mainstays—and all the evidence of its steady, reliable presence over the past 30 years is right in the video. In build after build, ATX is there. An over-the-top, ludicrously decked out Dream Machine built by the crew at Maximum PC? ATX. The machine that won the ongoing competition between Gordon and others (including our friend Dr. Ian Cuttress) for the slowest benchmark results in Cinebench R15? Also ATX. And even Gordon’s signature troll build, the “reverse sleeper build” that sported a shiny new case on the outside, and old-as-heck parts on the inside? Yeah, ATX. Gordon had his bones to pick with ATX—he complained often that ATX was holding back the PC industry. (And I mean often, not just on The Full Nerd when the cameras were rolling.) But in the very next breath, he would then rail against companies like Apple, which has zero issue with (in Gordon’s words) throwing older tech overboard. ATX’s longevity is why you can put parts that look like this in a brand-new, sparkling clean case. Willis Lai / Foundry I’ve always had a different outlook, largely along the lines of Gordon’s follow-up rant. I’m open to a newer standard that evolves the layout of motherboards, sure. But I view the jump from the AT form factor to ATX more as a practical response, as opposed to just the insatiable hunger for innovation. ATX followed AT after a decade, bringing further improvements to standardization and swappability of parts. But when BTX launched nine years later, arguably “on schedule,” it failed to take. Not enough innovation, you could argue. But I view it as a sign of what truly motivates leaps in technology, whether the advent of the printing press or desktop-sized personal computers. I also think ATX’s ongoing relevance tells us a lot about the future of the PC. Innovation is a response to a need. As the PC industry has become increasingly more personal, with a far wider spectrum of options to address specific needs, what innovation looks like may continue to become smaller and more subtle. And possibly, it may even become less constant. In this episode of The Full Nerd… Willis Lai / Foundry In this episode of The Full Nerd, Adam Patrick Murray, Brad Chacos, Alaina Yee, and Will Smith talk about Intel being on the ropes, Zen 6’s emergence in the wild, and AI in Windows. To me, I found a lot of commonalities between these topics—they made me extremely contemplative about what innovation in the PC space will look like, because things feel a little…confused. Also, we got a glimpse into the remarkable details of the decor in Will’s home office. All I can say is: That potato has a butt. Missed our live show? Subscribe now to The Full Nerd YouTube channel, and activate notifications. We also answer viewer questions in real time!  And if you need more hardware talk during the rest of the week, come join our Discord community—it’s full of cool, laid-back nerds. This week’s intriguing nerd news I’m facing a second week in recent months where I’m questioning my deal-hunting skills, but a few technology wins are keeping my spirits up. What currently has me a bit starry-eyed: insanely fast internet. So fast that I’m a little giddy at the thought, even though I may never see it in my neck of the woods. What’s old will become what’s new.Wikimedia Commons I can’t top this data hoarder’s deal-hunting skills: Estate sales can be a good way to pick up useful, interesting, or downright quirky stuff for pretty cheap. But so far, I haven’t encountered any finds on the level of 11 Western Digital 8TB external hard drives for just $360. Man. What a score. Turns out you can put a price on nostalgia: $349 bucks is the cost of reliving your best childhood memories—aka getting your hands on a remade Commodore 64, compatible with over 10,000 C64 games and modernized to support HDMI, USB, and Wi-Fi. I hope this works out better than the Analogue 3D. (Not gonna lie, I’m a little worried Analogue won’t survive the tariffs, as they’re absorbing the higher costs.) Self-destructing SSDs? Pass. Don’t get me wrong—TeamGroup’s reveal of an SSD that destroys itself with the push of a button got my attention. But look, I’m cheap. Taking a hammer to my drives seems way simpler and costs a lot less. (As does taking them over to a company that has a proper shredder.) Also, if I’m handling data sensitive enough to require instant obliteration…why is it in my home? The internet is built on duct tape and string: For systems engineers, DNS probably gives y’all a lot of headaches. I certainly would have one, knowing just how fragile the system is. Or when seeing proof that malware can be casually slipped into DNS records. Fun. Linux is winning: Just kidding, it’s still barely a fraction of users on desktop PCs. But it is gaining a little bit of headway in the U.S.—we’ve now reached a milestone of over 5 percent market share. You may need to finally upgrade your Gigabyte motherboard if it’s vulnerable to a new security exploit.Gigabyte When will 6-cores become default? Well, not just yet: Brad floated the idea during this week’s episode that Zen 6 could shift to six-core CPUs as the baseline. But we’ve also commented multiple times on the show that the budget end isn’t getting much attention. I guess those laments won out, as the hottest chip news this week is AMD’s Ryzen AI 5 330, a four-core, eight-threaded Copilot+ laptop chip. Update your Gigabyte motherboard ASAP…if you can: Running an Intel processor? Perhaps one within the range of 8th gen to 11th gen? Is it sitting in a Gigabyte motherboard? Better check pronto if an update is available for it, because a vulnerability that lets attackers bypass Secure Boot was just disclosed. But if yours is too old, you may actually have to upgrade your hardware all together to avoid this security hole. ð?? Why not just buy actual gold instead? Look, I know the RTX 4090 has largely held its value. And maybe that’ll extend to the RTX 5090, too. But when I first saw Asus’s RTX 5090 ROG Astral Real Gold Edition (aka the RTX 5090 made with 11 pounds of 24-carat gold), I thought, “Surely investing in actual 24-carat gold bars would be the better call.” I’m a product of my upbringing, which includes very immigrant grandparents. I want Japan’s fiber optic internet tech: The land of the fax machine is claiming a record-breaking transmission rate of 127,500GB/s (yes, the big B, so really fast) over a distance of roughly 1,100 miles. Sure, I’d only use such speed to load cat videos instantaneously, but I still want it. Catch you all next week, when hopefully the hot parts of the world are cooler, and the cold parts are warmer. It’s 62 degrees right now in San Francisco. Also supposed to rain next week. Yup. Alaina This newsletter is dedicated to the memory of Gordon Mah Ung, founder and host of The Full Nerd, and executive editor of hardware at PCWorld. Read...

Hey, PCWorld readers! I’ve been fascinated by time lapse videos ever since I saw the video effect used on a bean-sprout growing in second grade class. Being able to condense days of growth into a short video that I could watch in just a minute seemed like magic to me. What’s more, it opened my mind to something about plants that you just can’t see every day — the fact that they’re not just inanimate things. They can move just like us (albeit a lot more slowly). The great thing about making a time lapse video these days is you don’t need a studio or specialist equipment to pull it off. It can be done with a mobile phone and / or a free app in Windows. So, if you’re into a hobby that lends itself well to a time lapse (and that can be almost anything), why not make a time lapse video? Here are some ideas for inspiration: A flower bud opening An artist painting Traffic moving on the street Your own hair growing out after a snip Tip: Slow moving things like snails and clouds make excellent subjects but require a little more time to shoot. What to do: One of the simplest ways to create a time lapse video is with an app called Time Lapse Creator. It gives you the option of either uploading images or videos, or shooting a video directly via the app itself. For the purposes of this “how to,” I’ve assumed that you’ve already shot your pictures, uploaded them to your PC, and stored them in a folder. Now you can do the following: Download and install the free app Time Lapse Creator. Select either Import Folder or Import Files to select the images you’d like to turn into your video. Also select the order of the images to be played (by date or by ascending or descending order). Choose the frame rate (fps), video quality, and bitrate. As a guide to fps, to make 10 seconds of time lapse a professional time lapse videographer will use 240 images editing at 24fps, 250 images editing at 25fps, and 300 photos editing at 30fps. Press preview to view your video and tweak the settings until you’re happy. Once you think you’ve nailed it, save your video to make an MP4. Dominic Bayley / Foundry And that’s it! If you’d like more tips like this one delivered to your inbox twice a week every week, be sure to sign-up to our PCWorld Try This newsletter. Read...

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