{"video_id":"4xmlHmduzsc","title":"Can Razer Win Me Back? - Razer Blade 14 AMD","channel":"ShortCircuit","show":"ShortCircuit","published_at":"2022-05-05T14:58:16Z","duration_s":588,"segments":[{"start_s":0.08,"end_s":7.68,"text":"if there was ever a laptop that i was a fan of it would have been the original","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":5.04,"end_s":14.24,"text":"razer blade and not the original razer blade with that","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":10.719,"end_s":17.199,"text":"weird display touchpad thing or whatever","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":14.24,"end_s":21.84,"text":"it was the one that got rebranded as the razer blade or i'm gonna call it the","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":19.119,"end_s":27.68,"text":"blade 14 because the blade 14 did something that nothing","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":24.72,"end_s":35.52,"text":"else did at the time it combined that sleek macbook pro appearance with 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sure it did come at a cost thermals weren't as good as if you'd gone with a much larger laptop and obviously performance did leave a little bit on the table oh and they were really expensive but the truth remains that nothing else did the same thing nowadays there are a lot of competitors for the blade and some of those deficiencies in the older blades have come back to bite them so there have been reliability issues that we've actually reported on and well i think that's probably kind of that's kind of the biggest problem but can AMD save razer's 14-inch laptop that is what they're trying to convince me of today let's take a look at this thing inside the new razer blade 14 is an AMD ryzen 5900 hx processor so that's an 8 core 16 thread CPU that'll boost up to 4.6 gigahertz should make it pretty darn ideal for gaming and you'll also find an rtx 3060 3070 or 3080 GPU with a total rated graphics power of 100 watts that is across the board so it seems to me that the sweet spot for this laptop is probably going to be the 30-70 but razer sent over the 3080 model for me to check out first let's take a look at i o so we've got our power plug usb-a usb-c this is not going to be Thunderbolt because this is of course an AMD-based machine we've got our headphone microphone combo jack another usb type a another type c HDMI 2.1 you can do up to i think it's 5k with display stream compression at 120 hertz or 4k at 240 hertz off of one of those kensington lock and that's actually very respectable io for a laptop of this class now obviously they made some compromises and we're gonna find some of those when we open it up one of the compromises supposedly isn't cooling so they've got two of these i think it's 88 blade fans i don't know when how many blades you have in your fans became like a big penis measuring contest between all the laptop manufacturers but uh razer seems to be right up there with the uh with the leaders in the pack as far as that goes there you go oh wow look at that that is really easy to get off not that you're gonna be upgrading anything because yes my friends that is in fact what i was talking about razer doesn't offer pretty much any configurability on these machines and this is why there just isn't any you're limited to single-sided ssds so that means practically speaking you can only go up to about two terabytes with modern m.2 ssds the RAM is soldered to the motherboard under this enormous vapor chamber this cooling system though this is pretty cool so this is an enormous vapor chamber that covers the CPU and GPU and leads to these two thermal exchangers here and then these are these crazy 88 blade fans who decided that you should have slightly more blades on the inside and slightly more on the outside i call this move yolo grab okay well the yolo grab didn't work uh so 61.6 watt hour battery razer claims 12 hours of battery life with an rtx 3080 um well that's with the screen at 35 brightness and the uh keyboard backlight turned off oh my god this vapor chamber bent um one moment please razor they put the frag in fragile now that that is some hardware pornographic material right there do you deny it david no not even a bit okay so we got 16 gigs of ddr4 memory this is from micron uh there's our 5900 hx CPU here's our power delivery for that my god look at the vrms for the CPU and GPU this is like every square centimeter of the inside of this machine is jam packed solid thank you to today's video sponsored wait wait dbrand is the global leader in device customization offering things like device skins cases screen protectors dark plates masks and much more dbrand is a serious company focused on quality and customer service and today they have launched a new product they launched the apple airpods pro grip case uh it's two millimeters thick super grippy and offers drop protection with military grade impact resistance it comes with a lanyard and it's available right now oh ow ow did dbrand put you up to this oh my god they're all actually full of airpods pros they're everywhere what do you got ow how many do you have oh interestingly even though razer ships with this power adapter you actually can charge the laptop they claim in about two hours using a usbc power delivery capable charger so i'm assuming it was down to a cost decision to go with this out of the box rather than one of those mind you this is already like a what is it starts at eighteen hundred dollar machine yeah it's not exactly cheap and then this particular one is 2 800 i still do like the razer keyboard it's kind of like seeing an old friend after a long time what the okay microsoft's got to figure that out i have no idea what i just input there no idea at all you know whatever you might think about it personally i love razer's keyboard i mean you can't argue with the results 118 words per minute at 95 accuracy on a on a laptop there's a couple things i'm not a huge fan of there's the split up and down arrow keys but then unlike some of their previous efforts this one really is so thin and they've done a great job of increasing the size of the touchpad that i can it's it's a lot easier for me to forgive and the 30 70 and 30 80 models come with a 1440p 165 hertz display we tried these out a little while ago on some prototype ASUS laptops on ShortCircuit you guys can check out that video if you want but in a nutshell they're freaking awesome these displays cool i don't need no calibration i got the greatest mouse pad ever from ltdstore.com oh cool so you can have like a shift key that will allow you to assign secondary functionality to your whole keyboard oh i should mention the display on the higher end models they boast up to uh 100 coverage of dci p3 and then on the 3060 model up to 100 coverage of i believe it's RGB is that correct yeah boy those fans are going now though hey yeah CPU is at 4.2 whatever gigahertz running at a casual 100 FPS nightmare quality 1440p or ultra nightmare excuse me this is one of those devices where this the noise of the fans really does affect the enjoyment of the speakers so you guys know what i'm comparing this to for anyway daily driver consideration at least is the uh flow 14 from ASUS so this is like a convertible with a 1650 in it if i recall correctly i think the 3070 model is probably your sweet spot though ah touchpad it's good size that's something that's kind of killing me about the flow 14. um touch pad's really small by comparison look at this yeah that's a pinner touch pad and it doesn't feel very good either whereas this one feels good all right i think that's pretty much everything i can say about it from a first impression standpoint considering like how not even that much bigger and heavier it is compared to an ultra portable device with a 1650 like good lord it's noisy though you know it's still a blade subscribe to ShortCircuit for more impressions videos like this one well we don't usually do them quite like this but this is just a very 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