A Razer gaming laptop with an AMD Ryzen processor is a match made in heaven. The fact that it isn’t already available on the market is a stupendously big oversight. It is, in many ways, the one thing gamers — those who game on-the-go, at least — have been clamoring for for years. 

We can understand why Razer took their sweet time in making a gaming laptop with a Ryzen CPU at its core. It takes a lot of research and development, which, for a company that represents a fair niche part of the market, isn’t all that easy to accomplish. Razer is by no means as “big” as the likes Dell, Asus, HP, and all the other age-old IT giants who can splurge millions of dollars on R&D like it’s nothing. Cooling an AMD processor — one that is much more powerful and more efficient than anything Intel has to offer — isn’t as easy as it might seem. Well, at least not if you want it done properly.

Razer has often been considered as the “Apple of Windows laptops.” There’s a very good reason why. Their build quality and the overall completeness of their products are second-to-none, at least in the world of Windows laptops. Do their machines come with that well-known Razer tax? Absolutely, but it has diminished ever so slightly as time went on.

According to a well-known leaker, Ryzen will soon offer a brand-new gaming laptop (under the Blade moniker) that’ll pack a Ryzen 5000 series processor (the Ryzen 9 5900HX, to be more specific) along with a mobile version of Nvidia’s RTX 3060. To make things even more interesting, it’ll supposedly be a 14” model, making a lot of sense and is an appropriate decision.

We’ve seen just how much success an AMD + Nvidia pairing can make thanks to Asus’ ROG Zephyrus G14. Having such a potent combo within one of Razer’s trademarked (and mouth-watering) machines will be a sight for sore eyes. A bigger screen invariably means a bigger laptop which, in this case, will allow Razer to cram in a more suitable cooling solution. 13.3” is too limiting in that regard, whereas if they were to go with 15.6,” they’d face a lot stiffer competition.

The Ryzen 9 5900HX is an 8-core, 16 thread processor with a base clock of 3.30 Ghz (boost of 4.60 Ghz), 20 MBs of cache, and a TDP (thermal design power) of 45W (but it can draw a lot more should the need arise). It also comes with AMD’s well-known Vega integrated graphics, which, in a way, are also fairly sufficient for a bit of light esports gaming on the side. Still, they pale in comparison to an RTX 30 series GPU. The RTX 3060, in particular, is a fantastic choice as it’s not all that power-hungry either. Still, even though that’s the case, we’re talking about an absurdly powerful dedicated GPU that’s more than sufficient for triple A gaming on the go (even in 1440p, if you don’t mind lowering the settings).

There’s still no word on pricing, but it’s fair to assume that it’ll retail for somewhere between $1,300 and $1,500 — a direct competitor to Asus’ own Zephyrus G14. Color us intrigued! 

This alluring brand-new model will probably be announced sometime in April or May, so stay tuned!