Razer has unveiled its newest Blade 17 with the most recent NVIDIA and Intel components focused at each avid gamers and content material creators. It additionally launched the extra mild-mannered, however less expensive and nonetheless fairly well-equipped Blade 15 Base, additionally outfitted with Intel’s newest Eleventh-generation CPUs.

The Blade 17 is actually the star of this present, because it comes with Intel’s 8-core Eleventh-generation Core i9-11900H, the identical we noticed in its Blade 15 laptop computer earlier this 12 months. As Intel’s first 10-nanometer gaming PC chips, it delivers a 19 p.c pace bump over equal last-gen CPUs, Intel claims. You can even clock the chip as much as 4.9 GHz whereas seeing a inventory PL1 energy draw of 65 watts. All of meaning it is best to see extra efficiency and energy effectivity on the similar time, in response to Razer and Intel.

To praise that CPU, you will get the Blade 17 with as much as an RTX 3080 GPU in both 8GB or 16GB configurations, relying on the show. And there are three show selections: you will get it with a 120Hz 4K HDR 400 nit contact show for content material creation (with the 16GB VRAM RTX 3080 configuration), a 360Hz 1080p show for the quickest gaming doable, or a 240Hz 2,560 x 1,440 show for a mix of the 2.  

Other specs embrace 32GB of three,200 MHz Dual-Channel DDR4 RAM (upgradeable to 64GB), as much as a 4TB NVMe SSD (with an open M.2 slot) and quite a few ports: Two Thunderbolt 4 ports (USB-C 3.2 Gen2), three USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type A ports, HDMI 2.1 and a UHS-III SD card reader. It additionally comes with WiFi6, a 1080p webcam with Windows Hello IR, THX spatial audio help, a 4-mic array and a 70.5 WHr battery. 

All of that matches in a 6.06 pound squarish physique with typical Razer styling that is comparatively slim at 19.9 mm. The Blade 17 is now obtainable for pre-order at $2,400, however you will pay as much as $3,700 for the 4K display-equipped mannequin with 32GB of RAM and an RTX 3080 with 16GB of DDR6 VRAM. 

The Blade 15 Base (under) is extra modestly outfitted than both that mannequin or the Blade 15 we noticed in May. However, it nonetheless has respectable parts together with Intel’s 8-core i7-11800H processor and as much as RTX 3070 8GB graphics. It additionally comes with both a 144Hz 1080p IPS, THX licensed show or a 165Hz QHD show with as much as one hundred pc DCI-P3 protection.

Other options on the Blade 15 Base embrace a single Thunderbolt 4 port (USB-C), three USB 3.2 Gen 2 ports, a USB-C 3.2 Gen 2 port, HDMI 2.1 and Gigabit ethernet. That’s a little bit of a letdown from the Blade 15 superior, which has an additional Thunderbolt port and an SD UHS III card reader. However, you will additionally pay significantly much less, because the Blade 15 Base begins at $1,800, in comparison with the $2,300 beginning value of the Blade Advanced.