Razer Blade 15 Advanced Review 5 Razer Blade 15 Advanced Review: Powerhouse performance

Razer products - Sporting a glowing snake-like green design along with RGB features - are associated with gaming. However, unlike other gaming-focused brands, Razer puts just as an emphasis on the quality of their build and aesthetics of their products as they do on games-related tweaks and premium hardware. This is what makes their Blade laptops especially appealing to people who need high-end performance and a premium look.

The sleek aluminium chassis with clean designs and quieter operating do result in leaving some of the performance up to chance however, it's only seconds and not hours. What we've got here is a video and photo editing machine with a stunning display and the build quality is unparalleled with laptops made by other PC brands.

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Specifications for key specifications:

This Razer Blade 15 Advanced that we're testing lies at the center of the Blade 15 line up: just above the base model Blade 15 and just below the "top shelf "Studio" edition.

	Razer Blade 15	Razer Blade 15 Advanced	Razer Blade 15 Studio Edition
CPU	Intel Core i7-10750H	Intel Core i7-10875H	Intel Core i7-10875H
GPU	NVIDIA RTX 3070 8GB VRAM	NVIDIA RTX 3080 16GB VRAM	Quadro RTX 5000 16GB VRAM
RAM	16GB DDR4-2933MHz	32GB DDR4-2933MHz	32GB DDR4-2933MHz
Storage	512GB NVMe M.2 SSD	1TB NVMe M.2 SSD	1TB NVMe M.2 SSD
Display	15.6-inch QHD 165Hz LCD 100% sRGB	15.6-inch 4K OLED Touchscreen 100% DCI-P3	15.6-inch 4K OLED Touchscreen 100% DCI-P3
Price	$2,200	$3,300	$3,800

Don't think that "Studio Edition" moniker fool you. For both video editors and photographers it's the Blade 15 "Advanced" is the one you'll want to purchase. Apart from the option of silver-coloured finishes The only benefit in comparison to its predecessor Advanced model is its NVIDIA Quadro Graphics card RTX 5000, which is a significant addition to the price , without offering many features in terms of video or photo editing capabilities.

In the specification breakdown, the majority of everything else on the two computers is the same.

Design, build , and usability

If you're looking at the build quality and design of the Razer laptops, there's lots to be proud of and not much to be unhappy about. The cons aren't too long The matte black finish can be a horrible fingerprint magnet and is the only option for colour except if you're looking to spend more for Studio Edition. Studio Edition I mentioned above.

I'm also not too keen on the huge external power brick as well as Razer's exclusive power plug however, I can appreciate the need. Thunderbolt/USB-PD isn't able to generate enough power to run the GPU and CPU in this laptop at maximum speed.

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Also, even if use Razer's Synapse software and switch off the glowing logo that appears on the exterior of the case The green hue of the logo as well as the accents of green of the USB ports gives that Blade 15 a residual "gamer-y" style that I'm not a fan of. This is a minor issue but in a meeting with a lot of lemmings using MacBooks (I'm typically one of them) the little things can appear not professional.

Performance benchmarks

Regarding video and photo editing performance In terms of editing and photo quality, Blade 15 is a great choice for editing video and photos. Blade 15 we tested is an extremely powerful laptop which is a little sluggish because of it's 10.th Gen Intel processor. 11.th Gen Tiger Lake H-series CPUs that are in the refreshed version will aid in a significant way, however those 10th-Gen Intel processors aren't able to keep up to AMD Ryzen in most benchmarks as they are slower, are hotter and consume more energy in the process.

In all that Blade 15 Blade 15 is still an extraordinarily powerful system, particularly in applications that make the most of it's RTX 3080 notebook GPU that has sixteen GB of RAM. It means that you can export faster in Capture One 21, better Photoshop performance in certain GPU tasks that are accelerated as well as accelerated rendering and the ability to encode within Premiere Pro.

Blade 15 Advanced Blade 15 Advanced is an extremely powerful laptop which has some issues because of its 10th generation Intel processor.

In the purpose of this test, we tested our review of the Blade 15 against the AMD-based 2021 ASUS G14 and the M1 iMac that we recently reviewed. The specs of the three machines we tested below:

	M1 iMac	Blade 15	ASUS G14
CPU	M1 (8-core)	Intel Core i7-10875H	AMD Ryzen 9-5900HS
GPU	M1 (8-core)	NVIDIA RTX 3080 16GB VRAM	NVIDIA RTX 3060 6GB VRAM
RAM	16GB Unified Memory	32GB DDR4 2933MHz	32GB DDR4 3200MHz
Storage	512GB NVMe SSD	1TB NVMe M.2 SSD	1TB NVMe M.2 SSD
Display	24-inch 4.5K Retina Display 100% Display P3	15-Inch 4K OLED 100% DCI-P3	14-inch WQHD LCD 100% DCI-P3
Price	$1,900	$3,300	$2,000

 

Lightroom Classic

Within Lightroom Classic, we import and generate 1:1 previews then export heavily altered versions that consist of 100 similar raw images taken from four cameras including The Canon EOS R6, Nikon Z7 II, Sony a7R IV, and Fujifilm GFX 100. This is a fantastic test of the CPU and RAM performance, considering that Adobe has proven that the GPU is not a factor in these tests.

Importing and preview generation can be a good indicator of the raw CPU performance, especially when the file size is smaller. The 10th generation i7 gets a knock here, and it loses all categories until we get to the enormous Fuji GFX 100 files, which is where the iMac faces the limitations that are imposed by just 16GB of RAM.

Photoshop

Performance of Photoshop according to PugetBench of Puget Systems, is on par with what we would expect considering the Blade's combination of CPU, GPU and RAM.

Some tasks, such as Photo Merge require moving lots of pixels into or out of the RAM. This gives both the iMac or ASUS G14 an advantage thanks to their speedier RAM. The G14 also isn't as fast as the speed of processing that we can expect on the two models, AMD Ryzen and Apple's M1. It is able to make up ground within the GPU category however it's not able to match the ASUS.

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Conclusion

What We Like	What We Don't Like
Solid performance Stunning 4K OLED display Built like a tank The top-of-the-line keyboard and trackpad Many ports that include the SD card slot Windows Hello webcam	Tenth-Gen Intel CPU isn't as good as AMD "Gamer-y" green logo and accents Low battery life Fans are extremely loud at full load. Matte finish can be an excellent magnet for fingerprints Expensive

No one in the world of PCs has a laptop that is as powerful as Razer. Lenovo creates laptops that with the same ruggedness, MSI, Gigabyte and ASUS produce laptops that are similarly quick and reliable, and there are a lot of computers with a combination of all of these. A few massive gaming laptops such as Alienware Area 51m will propel you further up the ladder of performance by incorporating desktop components inside a huge chassis.

However, Razer is the only brand that can find the sweet place at the intersection of high-performance performance and premium design.

It may not be important however, being someone who constantly swaps between laptops that have identical specifications, but of drastically different specifications, you can tell you with absolute certainty that it has an impact on every single thing you perform. A poor keyboard, a poor trackpad, a plastic chassis, or a display that has a white-point that is drastically altered as you increase the brightness - these are the things will be noticed at least once a day, as will the performance of your GPU and CPU.