By Not much thicker, heavier, or larger than the typical laptop, the Razer Blade 14 is a 14-inch gaming laptop. Everything functions as I had hoped, including the stunning display, the silent fans, and the quick keyboard. This equipment fulfills its claims exactly. The best part is that portability and power don’t have to be mutually exclusive.
Specification
Based on AMD’s Zen 5 architecture, the Razer Blade 14 is a high-end 14-inch gaming laptop with an AMD Ryzen AI HX 365 CPU. The $2,699 model we reviewed had a 1TB SSD, 32GB of LPDDR5X RAM, and Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 graphics. (When the powerful Nvidia GPU is not required, it also features AMD Radeon 880M graphics to conserve power.)
Additionally, Razer provides a $2,999 variant with 64 GB of RAM and a 2 TB SSD, as well as a lower-end $2,299 model with RTX 5060 GPU and 16 GB of RAM. You may use Copilot+ PC AI features on this laptop because AMD’s Ryzen AI chipset has an NPU.
- Razer Blade 14 (2025) model number
- AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 CPU
- Graphics/GPU: AMD Radeon 880M and Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Memory: 32GB LPDDR5X RAM
- AMD NPU (up to 50 TOPS) as the NPU
- Display: OLED 2880×1800 screen with a refresh rate of 120 Hz
- 1TB PCIe Gen4 SSD for storage
- Camera: 1080p camera
- Connectivity: 1x HDMI 2.1, 1x microSD card, 1x power port, 1x Kensington lock slot, 2x USB Type-C (USB4), and 2x USB Type-A (USB 3.2 Gen 2).
- Networking: Bluetooth 5.4, Wi-Fi 7.
- Biometrics: Windows Hello IR camera
- Capacity of battery: 72 Watt-hours
- 12.23 x 8.83 x 0.62 inches in size
- 3.59 pounds in weight
- MSRP as tested: $2,699
Design and build quality
Along with the larger Razer Blade 16 and Razer Blade 18, the 14-inch Razer Blade 14 is the smallest gaming laptop that Razer sells. At 0.62 inches thick and weighing 3.59 pounds, this Blade 14 is reportedly the smallest Razer has ever made. It is also remarkably portable for a gaming laptop with Nvidia GeForce graphics. Excellent build quality is demonstrated by the chassis’s strong aluminum construction, the hinge’s seamless, one-handed opening, and the way it holds the display firmly in place without bouncing when gaming.
For a gaming laptop, our review model’s silver-toned “Mercury White” appearance is surprisingly subtle. It has a very subdued Razer logo on the lid and is entirely silver and black. Other than the backlighting on the keyboard, there are no flickering LEDs present. You can create animated rainbow LED effects on the keyboard with per-key LED illumination, or use pure white light for stealth mode. To anyone who doesn’t know the Razer branding on the lid, it will appear professional and be mistaken for a “normal” laptop.
Keyboard and trackpad
The keyboard on the Razer Blade 14 is fantastic and a pleasure to use. The 1mm key travel doesn’t seem like much on paper. However, Razer also claims that the keys have an actuation force of 63g. This combination results in a quick keyboard experience with minimal travel time.
Additionally, this keyboard has per-key illumination, which allows you to activate intricate animations or change the color of each key with the Razer Chroma app. It’s the sort of thing that adds even more luxury to the laptop and allows you to turn on the rainbow LED “gamer” look, but only if you want it and without other parts of the laptop glowing.
The trackpad on the Razer Blade 14 is excellent. It’s responsive and smooth, and it’s really wide, reaching the laptop’s lip. Despite its size, I didn’t have any issues with it getting in the way when I was playing games because palm rejection is excellent. It’s fine, but I would rather have a tactile trackpad. A haptic trackpad allows the top portion of the trackpad to be clickable as well. The click-down movement feels fantastic and is silent, which is underappreciated given how many laptop trackpads generate loud clicking noises.
Display and speakers
The Razer Blade 14 boasts a stunning 14-inch screen. This OLED panel, which measures 2880 by 1800 pixels, creates remarkably vibrant colors. It’s also smooth at a refresh rate of 120 Hz. This monitor looks fantastic; however, I wish it supported HDR. If you buy a laptop with an IPS panel instead, you can obtain faster refresh rate displays. I love OLED screens, and this one is fantastic.
For a laptop, the Razer Blade 14’s speakers sound fantastic. In DOOM: The Dark Ages, the sounds produced by the weapons were pleasant and forceful. Steely Dan’s Aja for laptop speakers features unexpectedly clear instrument separation. The song “Get Lucky” by Daft Punk has a lively tone with a hint of bass.
It doesn’t have the loudest top-end loudness I hear on other laptops, but the volume level is decent, even though I’ve heard much louder laptop speakers. Although there isn’t as much bass as with a decent set of headphones or external speakers, it’s still enough to make the speakers functional. (However, your gaming or multimedia experience will be much enhanced by a decent set of headphones or external speakers.)
Connectivity
For a 14-inch laptop, the Razer Blade 14 boasts an impressive array of connectors, including two USB Type-C ports (USB4 speeds) and two USB Type-A ports (USB 3.2 Gen 2 speeds). A power port, USB Type-C and Type-A ports, and a combination audio jack are located on the left. A microSD card reader, a second USB Type-C port, a second USB Type-A port, an HDMI 2.1 out port, and a Kensington lock slot are all located on the right.
That’s about all you could need here; the only other thing is an Ethernet port, which, considering the laptop’s size, I doubt would fit here. This laptop is beautiful and future-proof for the newest standards because it supports Bluetooth 5.4 and Wi-Fi 7. There were no issues with the Wi-Fi for me.
Performance
Naturally, the Razer Blade 14 was a terrific device for both gaming and everyday desktop use. Instead of blowing out the sides, where it could hit your mouse hand, the cooling system effectively blows the hot air out of the machine’s rear. For a laptop used for gaming, the keyboard remains amazingly cool.
Much of the heat is being transferred to the metal above the F key row, which can become quite hot when playing games. Even with high graphics detail settings, it played DOOM: The Dark Ages smoothly. Additionally, unlike some gaming laptops, which have loud whirring jet engine noise, the fans remained surprisingly quiet for a little gaming laptop that needs to vent a lot of heat.
As usual, we evaluated the Razer Blade 14 using our common benchmarks to compare its performance to that of other laptops. To get a sense of the overall performance of the system, we first run PCMark 10. With an overall PCMark 10 score of 7,994, this machine performed similarly to the 16-inch Razer Blade 16 on this benchmark, while its more expensive and power-hungry Intel Core Ultra 9 CPU just slightly surpassed the HP Omen Max 16.
Cinebench R20 is then used. This benchmark, which emphasizes total CPU performance, is substantially multithreaded. CPUs with more cores have a significant advantage because it is massively multithreaded.
This system performed well, with a multithreaded score of 7,800; however, it was not as good as computers with multiple cores. The Razer Blade 16’s AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 CPU has 12 cores, whereas this one has 10. There are an astounding 24 cores in the Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX. Multithreaded CPU benchmarks show how that impacts performance, but real-world game performance may change just a little.
We also use Handbrake to run an encode. Although it runs for a long time, this benchmark is also significantly multithreaded. Under load, many laptops choke and slow down, requiring the cooling system to kick in.
It took the Razer Blade 14 789 seconds, or a little more than 13 minutes, to finish the encoding procedure. Once more, the only laptops that outperformed were those with CPUs with more cores.
We then benchmark the laptop’s graphics card. We begin with 3Dmark Time Spy, a GPU performance-focused graphical benchmark.
According to 3DMark Time Spy, the Razer Blade 14 has a score of 13,069, which puts it in the middle. Naturally, laptops with Nvidia RTX 5080 or 5090 graphics will be faster, but cramming a more powerful GPU into a small device is more difficult! You can see how much faster Razer’s machine is than an earlier gaming laptop with Nvidia RTX 4060 graphics when compared to the other 14-inch laptops in our test table.
We then perform the benchmarks that are included in some games. First, we test every gaming laptop we review using the benchmark from Shadow of the Tomb Raider. Despite being an older game, it’s a fantastic method to compare GPU performance on various PCs.
The Razer Blade 14 produced excellent performance with an average frame rate of 161. As you can see, the benefits of using a more powerful GPU for this older game are decreasing.
Lastly, we use Metro Exodus to execute the benchmark. We set the benchmark to 1080p resolution at the Extreme detail option because this is a more demanding game.
Battery life
A 72-watt-hour battery is included with the Razer Blade 14. Long battery life isn’t typically associated with gaming laptops, but AMD’s Ryzen AI hardware can be surprisingly power efficient, as demonstrated here. Although it won’t display the same figures as low-power laptops like the Intel Lunar Lake or Qualcomm Snapdragon X, it is far more power-efficient than you might anticipate when using it sparingly.
We repeatedly play a 4K version of Tears of Steel on Windows 11 with airplane mode activated and the keyboard backlight off until the laptop suspends itself in order to test the battery life. Since local video playback is so effective and real battery life in daily usage will always be less than this, this is the best-case situation for any laptop.
For our battery testing, we set the screen to 250 nits of brightness. It’s important to note that the Razer Blade 14’s OLED display has a slight edge because OLED panels require less power to display the black bars surrounding the video.
In our benchmark, the Razer Blade 14 lasted 680 minutes, or more than 11 hours. Although actual battery life will differ, this is an excellent battery life figure for a gaming laptop that prioritizes power.
Conclusion
A great gaming laptop with a compact design is the Razer Blade 14. It’s a fantastic choice if you want a small 14-inch laptop with excellent gaming performance, a gorgeous display, and high-end build quality. Yes, at $2,699, it is pricey. Although it was on sale for $2,299 on Razer’s web shop at the time I was writing this review, that is the main drawback.
This mix of power, portability, and pricing makes much more sense than high-end Razer Blade 16 models that pair top-end GPUs with slim designs at a premium price. Although it’s a great machine, there are some compromises: Other, larger gaming laptops are more affordable and offer better gaming performance. Other 14-inch gaming laptops are also available, but they won’t feel as high-end or have as quiet fans.
