Razer Blade Pro 17 Review (2019)

1. Introduction2. CPU & Storage performance3. Thermals, Noise and Battery life4. 3D Mark and Gaming performance5. Closing Thoughts6. View All Pages

The Razer blade 17 has had another refresh for 2019 with upgrades to improve performance and now features a more refined chassis similar to the Razer blade 15. Our sample features a i7 9750H and RTX 2070 Max Q with a retail price of  £2679.99 – is this the ultimate thin gaming laptop for 2019?

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Specifications:

• Screen Type: 17.3″ Full HD, 1920 x 1080, IPS, 144Hz, 100% sRGB, 16:9 aspect ratio, matte screen
• Screen Resolution: 1920×1080
• Back light: LED
• Processor: Intel® Core™ i7 9750H (2.6 GHz up to 4.5Ghz base)
• Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 2070 Max-Q Design (8GB GDDR6 VRAM)
• Storage: 512GB M.2 SSD (NVMe PCIe 3.0 x4)
• Memory: 16GB dual-channel SO-DIMM (DDR4, 2666MHz), Max Supported up to 64GB
• Operating System: Windows 10
• USB Ports: 3x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A Ports, 2x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C Ports (Shared with Thunderbolt 3 Port), 1x Thunderbolt 3 Port
• Network Wireless: Wi-Fi 6 (Intel AX200) (802.11/a/b/g/n/ac/ax)
• Ethernet: 1x RJ45 – 2.5Gb Ethernet
• Bluetooth: Bluetooth 5
• Display Ports 1 x HDMI 2.0b
• Dimensions 395 x 260 x 19.9 mm (WxLxD)
• Weight 2.75 Kgs with battery
• Card Reader: UHS-III SD Card Reader
• Webcam: HD webcam 720p
• Keyboard: Razer Chroma RGB
• Touch pad: Glass Touch pad with Microsoft Precision Touch
• Battery: 70.5WHr lithium polymer battery

This laptop uses the new hexa-core i7-9750H processor and has a base clock of 2.6GHz but is rated to turbo boost up to 4.5GHz under load on a single core. The i7-8750H it replaces was rated at 2.2GHz but with a turbo boost up to 4.1GHz under load. During testing I saw a maximum all core boost clock speed from the i7-9750H in the Razer Blade Pro 17 of around 4.29Ghz.

The 16GB of memory is DDR4 and runs at a speed of 2667MHz. The GPU-Z screenshots show both the Intel integrated graphics and the dedicated Nvidia RTX 2070 Max Q. The RTX 2070 Max-Q features 8GB of GDDR5 memory and has a default clock of 1080MHz and a rated boost clock of 1305MHz. However, during testing I did notice the boost clock peaked at 1890MHz and managed to maintain near to this impressive boost clock most of the time.

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