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The launch of the Blade 16 and Blade 18 is upon us this week, as Razer prepares to ship out its most powerful gaming laptops yet. Announced officially during CES 2023, the Blade 16 and Blade 18 will launch as Razer’s first gaming laptops featuring the new NVIDIA RTX 40 series graphics cards. When the laptops launch, you’ll be able to choose from two GPU configurations – the RTX 4080 and the RTX 4090.
However, Razer will also release configurations of the laptop with RTX 4060 and RTX 4070 graphics cards. These will obviously be the least expensive models. But all of them will still be quite expensive. Razer says the Blade 16 will start at $2,699.99 while the Blade 18 will start at $2,899.99. These are the prices for the RTX 4060 models which will launch later this month. The RTX 4080 and RTX 4090 models meanwhile see a significant price increase.
If you’re looking at the Blade 16, it’ll run you $3,599.99 for the model with the RTX 4080, or $4,299.99 for the model with the RTX 4090. The Blade 18 will run you $3,799.99 and $4,499.99 respectively. Both laptops also come with the Intel Core i9-13950HX CPU, and there will be a configuration available with the Core i9-13980HX CPU in the Blade 18. Both models also offer 32GB of RAM and a 2TB SSD.
Razer will launch the Blade 16 and Blade 18 on February 8
The wait is almost over for anyone wanting to pick up one of Razer’s latest gaming laptops. Both models will launch on February 8. That being said, tomorrow is only the launch date for the RTX 4080 and RTX 4090 configurations. If you would rather go for the RTX 4060 or RTX 4070 configurations, those will be available for purchase starting on February 22. You can also already pre-order the RTX 4080 and RTX 4090 versions starting today.
As both of these new laptops are dropping with a fairly high starting cost, it’s worth noting that Razer still has other options. The Blade 14 for instance was one of our favorite gaming laptops and you can currently find the RTX 3070 Ti model on sale for $2,099.99. Not only is this a solid laptop for gaming, but it’s much more portable.