Razer's New Blade 16 Has Intel's Latest Chips And Ultra-fast Ram

After leaning into some questionable AI antics astatine CES 2026, Razer is making immoderate altogether much practical updates to its 16-inch laptop by giving it newer chips and faster RAM. The caller Razer Blade 16 features Intel's caller Core Ultra chips and speedy LPDDR5X-9600 MHz RAM, and is disposable to bid coming for $3,500.

The Razer Blade 16 is designed to divided nan quality betwixt nan portable Razer Blade 14 and nan monstrous Razer Blade 18, mostly by being bladed but offering improved performance. Razer says nan 2026 Blade 16 is 0.59 inches (14.9mm) astatine its thinnest point, which matches nan thinness of the 2025 Blade 16. The laptop besides has a akin 16-inch QHD+, 240Hz OLED surface to past year's model, though nan institution says it's 100 nits brighter than before. Port action besides remains respectable: nan laptop includes 3 USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A ports, a Thunderbolt 4 port, a Thunderbolt 5 port, a full-sized HDMI 2.1 larboard and a UHS-II SD paper reader.

The existent notable upgrade is Razer's move from AMD Ryzen chips to caller Intel Core Ultra 9 386H chips connected nan 2026 Razer Blade 16. The caller Core Ultra chips are immoderate of Intel's first processors made pinch its caller 18A process and sounded arsenic nan company's comeback. Razer says nan caller spot es 16 cores and an integrated NPU that "provides up to 50 TOPS" for things for illustration image procreation and unrecorded translation, which nan Razer Blade 16 supports natively arsenic a Copilot+PC. The ratio of nan caller spot besides contributes to nan laptop’s up to 15 hours of artillery life. Of course, if you want power, nan Razer Blade 16 has it: nan laptop includes NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 50 Series Laptop GPUs and up to 64Gb of LPDDR5X-9600MHz RAM, which should springiness nan Razer Blade 16 plentifulness of pep for games.

Hardware upgrades don't travel cheap, and nan higher $3,500 starting value of nan Razer Blade 16 — which includes 32GB of RAM, 1TB of retention and a GeForce RTX 5080 GPU astatine a minimum — is apt reflective of the increasing cost of representation and retention that's already negatively impacting nan PC industry.

The Razer Blade 16 is disposable to acquisition now done Razer’s website.