Razer Launches Blade 18: Intel Core i9-14900HX, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 & Thunderbolt 5

Razer has pushed out its flagship Blade 18 gaming laptop, featuring a top-of-the-line Intel CPU & NVIDIA's RTX GPU with great I/O capabilities.

Razer's Latest Blade 18 Gaming Laptop Sets A New "Thunderbolt 5" Era In The Markets, Comes With a Hefty $4,799 Price Tag Coupled With Intel Core i9-14900HX CPU & NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 GPU

It's no expectation that Razer's Blade lineup of gaming laptops is known for their "premium-ness" in the markets, not just in the department of components but also in gaming-oriented features.

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The newest Razer Blade 18 has two different CPU configurations: Intel's Core i9-14900HX and Core i9-13980HX. Both onboard processors after flagship performance levels, with the latter intended for rather less-intensive users. Additionally, for GPU options, users will get multiple variants from NVIDIA's Ada Lovelace lineup, with the lowest option being the GeForce RTX 4060 to the GeForce RTX 4090 laptop GPUs, providing exceptional graphical performance.

Well, in terms of the onboard display, the Razer Blade 18 is quite a packed laptop. It comes in three different configurations, with the highest-end offering an 18-inch UHD+ panel, a 200 Hz refresh rate, and a 16:10 aspect ratio with a maximum resolution of 3840 x 2400.

However, for gamers, well, users can opt for the 300 Hz Mini-LED Razer Blade 18 laptop option, but you will see a compromise in the display resolution; hence, it's a "self-determining" choice. Quickly going through the storage and memory options, the laptop does come with different options, and the highest configuration is at 64GB DDR5-5600MHz memory, along with 4 TBs of PCIe 4.0 storage.

Now, moving on to the more interesting part, including "Thunderbolt 5" marks the first instance where we have seen the standard debuting in a laptop. Razer says that their Blade 18 brings the "future of connectivity," and the utilization