AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX debut: Razer Blade 14 laptop review

[Redaktion]

The Blade 14 is redefining our expectations of what an ultrathin 14-inch laptop is capable of. As if the 2021 model wasn't already fast enough for its size, this latest 2022 revision raises the bar even higher particularly in processor performance.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Ryzen-9-6900HX-debut-Razer-Blade-14-laptop-review.616568.0.html

[RinzImpulse]

only 16 GB option with that price tho

[RobertJasiek]

16:9, tiny arrow keys and missing page navigation keys are deal breakers.

That said, 42.1 dB under maximum load of the measured softwares is very good for 16.8mm thickness, 6900HX (75W PL1, 90W PL2), 3070TI Laptop (100W). Even for a 45W CPU and 80W GPU, this would be good (39 dB would be very good for that). 42.1 dB for the specifications of this notebook are so astonishingly good that I can't believe it.

Either 6900HX, this notebook's cooling hardware and its fan drivers all are so great improvements that 42.1 dB have indeed become possible despite the thin chassis and not particularly modest TDPs - or measurement of maximum noise must have been flawed.

There are enough CPU-only tests so that noise meansurement under CPU-only load must be right. The most unfortunately, GPU tests are very insufficient: they focus on 3D but fail to measure machine learning, productivity, creativity and synthetics. Therefore, noise meansurement under GPU load is only known for 3D applications but remains unknown for almost all other applications. For verifying or refuting the astonishing 42.1 dB under maximum load, such tests remain mandatory and essential. Not to mention torturing both GPU and CPU simultaneously.

Conclusion: either we have a cooling wonder or much more complete noise measurements must reveal the truth.

[_MT_]

Not to mention torturing both GPU and CPU simultaneously.

Try reading it again. He did try Prime+FurMark and couldn't get it to be as loud as the predecessor. That being said, it is strange. Look at power consumptions. Load maximum is almost 40 W higher than predecessor. So, almost 40 W more power and almost 10 dB less noise? Also, load average noise is higher despite environment being quieter. Interesting. The only noise measurement that is worse. I mean, if the cooling is superior, why is the average higher?

[Joe]

16:9, tiny arrow keys and missing page navigation keys are deal breakers.

16:9 is not a deal breaker for a gaming/multimedia machine on which you would want to play games and watch videos/movies. Arrow and page navigation keys are also rarely used during gaming.

[Pol]

On these laptops that support PD charging you should add some benchmarks with the laptop on 100w-pd-power to see how it would perform taking a small brick

[RobertJasiek]

16:9 is not a deal breaker for a gaming/multimedia machine on which you would want to play games and watch videos/movies. Arrow and page navigation keys are also rarely used during gaming.

Your comment seems to mean "3D gaming" when you write "gaming".

My gaming and related content creation would use a game board with 1:1 ratio and machine learning. For that, 16:9 is unusable and I need arrow / navigation keys up to ca. 10,000 times per day when browsing positions, moves and their variations back and forth iteratively. (Or files in a file manager or edited text or images in an images manager.)

[_MT_]

Arrow and page navigation keys are also rarely used during gaming.

Well, you might not use cursor keys in a shooter if you're right-handed as you need to operate a mouse as well, but that doesn't mean they are not used in other genres.

[RobertJasiek]

Matthew Moniz in "2022 Razer Blade 14 vs ASUS G14 - The Easy Choice!" at Youtube:

40 dB Silent
44 dB Performance / Balanced
53 dB Turbo / Custom

It follows that Allen Ngo's noise tool or his noise testing are flawed.

[sim]

I believe the keyboard has been upgraded over the 2021 version. The keys are slightly larger.

[Dan G.]

What is the point in comparing this 14" thin laptop with a desktop CPU and a laptop DTR CPU that can use up to 200W in peak loads ?!

It is so obvious that this is some Intel marketing request.

For example, when testing the ThinkPad X1, you did not feel the need to compare it with a 12900H desktop processor :)

You also avoided ANY comparison with AMD CPUs in that article, despite the fact that both the Razer and the ThinkPad are 14" laptops.

This is ridiculous :) Really. Pathetic :)