Hardware Overview and Organisation Performance

Most of the hardware inside the Razer Blade is standard across all models. This laptop comes with an Intel 'Kaby Lake' Cadre i7-7700HQ processor, which we've seen before in a broad range of gaming laptops. It has 4 cores, viii threads clocked at 2.8 GHz with a unmarried-core Turbo boost frequency of 3.viii GHz. The Blade as well comes with 16GB of dual-channel DDR4 at 2400 MHz.

The GPU is an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 with 6GB of GDDR5 memory. This detached graphics chip is substantially identical to the desktop equivalent, with 1280 CUDA cores, lxxx TMUs, and 48 ROPs. It'south clocked at 1404 MHz with a rated boost of 1670 MHz, slightly lower than the desktop GPU. Its 6GB of memory is clocked at 8000 MHz on a 192-bit bus for 192 GB/s of bandwidth.

The main piece of hardware that can be factory configured is the PCIe Yard.2 SSD storage. There'due south no spinning disk drive inside the Blade, so you're stuck with whatever SSD capacity you opt for. Razer offers 256GB, 512GB and 1TB options, and I tend to think you'll need at to the lowest degree 512GB in a gaming laptop to store the massive file sizes of today's games. My review unit came with the 256GB SSD, and it was only able to store two-3 modern titles at a time.

Aside from that yous also get a Killer Wireless-Ac 1535 solution, which brings support for Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/m/n/air conditioning and Bluetooth 4.1.

The hardware institute within the Razer Blade is no different to many other gaming laptops, which often opt for the i7-7700HQ + GTX 1060 combination. Information technology's therefore no surprise that the Bract performs very similarly to a range of other laptops with this hardware within.

The Core i7-7700HQ performs inside one pct of the Alienware 13, a laptop with near-identical hardware, in a range of organization benchmarks. This is within the margin of error, and shows that the hardware in the Razer Blade is working equally expected. Those upgrading from a laptop with a Cadre i7-6700HQ processor inside should see approximately vi percent more performance in CPU-limited workloads, while the i7-7700HQ is 15 percent faster than the i7-4710HQ.

My Razer Blade came loaded with a 256GB Samsung PM951 PCIe G.2 SSD, which is some other piece of hardware I've seen before in other laptops. The Bract performs well though not nautical chart-toppingly good, with excellent read performance and okay write functioning. Again, you lot'll want 512GB here so you can really fit a few games on the Blade.