Razer Blade Studio Review – £4000 Creator Laptop

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The market for a laptop that’s built for creators is on the rise, literally millions of Youtube creators like me, freelance artists and photographers, all need powerful machines to get their work done, and Razer thinks you’d be willing to spend nearly 4 and a half THOUSAND pounds to get one. Me? I’m not so sure. Lets take a look at it and see what it’s all about, but first, if you haven’t already, consider subscribing for more videos every Monday, Wednesday and Friday!

So this is it, the Blade Studio. As configured, it’ll set you back £4,300. For your money you get an i7, my one has a 9750H although you’ll get a 10875H instead. It also comes with an RTX 5000 Quadro GPU – the one with 16GB of VRAM – as well as 32GB of RAM, only 1TB of SSD storage, oh and a touchscreen 4K OLED which is factory calibrated to cover at least 100% of the DCI P3 spectrum. And it’s silver, instead of black.

That all sounds amazing then, right? Well yeah, the display is absolutely stunning. Seriously. It’s almost painfully crisp, bright and vibrant. Testing it with my datacolour spyderX and DisplayCal, you can see it does indeed cover 100% of the DCI P3 spectrum, and around 94% of the AdobeRGB spectrum too. Damn impressive, for sure. It even gets impressively bright at over 400 nits, but you can get this exact same panel on a standard RTX 2080 Super based blade, which costs over £1000 less.

As for using it with creator apps, like the latest version of Blender or the Adobe CC Suite, I can’t help but feel like this is a bit underpowered in the CPU department. I opened Premiere Pro with my usual 10 minute test clip, just to see timeline performance, dragging and dropping the playhead around, and it was painfully sluggish. It wouldn’t always play the footage without stuttering, and this was only playing back ½ res 4K footage.

Any my suspicions are only confirmed by the benchmark results, now I ran a load of different renders in Blender, along with Premiere and the usual Cinebench, but the one I want to focus on is the BMW CPU render test. That’s the one I’ve got a number of points of comparison for. In it’s default performance mode, it took the Blade Studio over 7 minutes to render the scene. Even in it’s “High performance mode” in Synapse, it still took over 5 and a half minutes. The Blade 15 Advanced I reviewed a few months ago only took 4 minutes and 23 seconds. And MSI’s terribly cooled Bravo 15 took just 3 minutes 37 seconds! A frankly terrible £1000 laptop is almost twice as fast as it’s 4 and a half thousand pound one! Heck, even Razer’s own lower end laptop is faster – but why? Well, the fact this Studio uses a 9750H whereas the Advanced model I reviewed had the newer 10875H, plays a pretty big part, it’s got 2 less cores to fight with, but the “cool and quiet” profile certainly isn’t helping either. It’s designed to stay as quiet as possible, it seems even with the CPU and GPU profiles set to their maximum, which means even when the CPUs are on part, it’s possible the Studio will still be slower, and yes will thermal throttle.

The point I’m getting at here is that I can’t really see many workloads that would be able to make use of the Quadro’s 16GB of VRAM, without being severely bottlenecked by the CPU horsepower. Even with some more cores, I think it’d be a tough sell to push me to get the Studio over the regular Blade with the same screen – and if they offered the RTX 2070 Super model with it too, I’d get that instead.

Don’t get me wrong, this isn’t a bad laptop, but what Razer has done here is paint a standard Blade Advanced silver, stuck some more RAM (which is user upgradable by the way, even on the regular model) and thrown a Quadro in, so they can stick a £4,300 price tag on it. You still have the same RGB lit keyboard that’s nice to type on, the same massive trackpad that’s about as good as you get on a Windows machine, and the same painfully thin and sharp chassis that still cuts your wrists as you type. If they didn’t offer the same stunning screen on their standard model, this would seem like a much better value by comparison, of course until you realise that Acer have their ConceptD 7 Pro which is EXACTLY the same spec as this, the same CPU, same Quadro RTX 5000 GPU, 32GB of RAM and 1TB of SSD, and even a 4K 100% AdobeRGB display, all for £3,300 instead. So why is Razer’s one £1,000 more? I really don’t know.

For those of you wondering what gaming performance is like on a Quadro, here it is.

	AVG FPS	1% Low FPS	1% Low ms
BFV	99.87	71.32668	14.02
COD MW	105.73	67.93478	14.72
PUBG	119.46	65.23157	15.33
Fortnite	114.77	69.58942	14.37

For me, I’d build a desktop. For around half the price of this you can build a Ryzen 3900X, RTX 3080, 32GB of RAM and 1TB of Gen 4 NVME SSD system, with a stunning LG 4K display. If I needed portability, the ConceptD 5 Pro I checked out a while ago would suit me perfectly, and it’s also half the price of this. But that’s me. What would you get?