Razer Blade 16 Could Already Be 2025’s Best-Looking Gaming Laptop

A new version of the Razer Blade 16 gaming laptop has been unveiled at CES 2025, with the slimmed down device now rivalling the MacBook Pro for slenderness.

The Razer Blade 16 is the company’s thinnest ever gaming laptop, measuring 0.59 inches thick at its thinnest point. The latest MacBook Pro 16in is 0.61 inches thick, for comparison.

Unlike the MacBook Pro, the Razer of course ships with dedicated graphics, taking advantage of Nvidia’s newly announced RTX 5090.

There’s more bad news for Intel, though, as Razer has switched to rival AMD for this latest model. The Razer Blade 16 will ship with up to an AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 CPU, which helps the laptop qualify for Microsoft’s Copilot+ status — something that Intel was unable to deliver, according to a Razer spokesperson.

The AMD chip also offers better performance per watt, Razer’s spokesperson told me, allowing the company to shrink down the chassis without compromising on the power needed for a high-end gaming machine.

The Razer Blade 16 can be specified with up to 64GB of RAM, but unlike previous generations, this will be soldered to the motherboard meaning it’s not user upgradable.

Razer Blade 16 Design

There appear to be few other compromises of making the new Razer Blade 16 around a third slimmer than its predecessor. The amount of travel offered by the keyboard has actually improved, with each key offering around 1.5mm of travel. In my very brief hands-on period with the laptop, that keyboard felt every bit as good as the one on the MacBook Pro.

Ports haven’t been skimped on either, with full-sized HDMI, USB-A, USB-C and even Kensington lock ports on offer.

The screen is a delight. A QHD+ 240Hz OLED display, it looks brilliantly sharp and impactful, and though we weren’t allowed to play games at the CES briefing due to an ongoing Nvidia embargo, Razer claims it has a minimal 0.2ms response time.

Sound shouldn’t disappoint either, with a six-speaker design for both downward and upward firing audio.

At the time of writing, there wasn’t a confirmed price for the new Razer Blade 16, but don’t expect this to cost anything less than $2,500 for the most basic spec, and significantly more if you want to max out the processor, RAM and storage. It will be available in the first quarter of this year.

If the gaming performance meets expectations and there’s no cooling compromises from the slimmed down chassis, it could well be the gaming laptop of the year, even at this early stage.

Razer Monitor Stand Chroma

If you’re thinking of hooking your gaming laptop up to a monitor, you might also be interested in another new Razer product, the Monitor Stand Chroma.

This 20-inch wide slab of metal lifts the monitor off the desk and beams RGB lighting onto the space below, where you might stash a keyboard if you’re connected to a desktop PC.

It can support screens weighing up to 20kg, and includes a four-port USB hub (2 x USB 3.2 Type-A, 1 x USB 3.2 Type C and 1 x HDMI 2.0) to help keep cables tidy on the desk.

It’s a punchy $199, but if you’re already blowing a few grand on a Razer Blade 16 that might seem like pocket change.