An earlier leak told us about an HP Omen laptop with next-gen hardware from Nvidia and Intel. Many OEMs are expected to follow suit, and we have now stumbled upon one of Razer's top-spec offerings. However, the Razer Blade 18 variant in question raises more questions than it answers.
Over at Geekbench, we can see the new 18-incher with a Core Ultra 9 275HX, Intel's flagship Arrow Lake-HX CPU. It has 8 performance cores, 16 efficiency cores and a boost clock of 5.2 GHz for the former. This particular machine has 64 GB of RAM. Things look OK so far, until we have a look at the GPU.
The Razer Blade 18 in question seems to be running a full-fat GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card. Yes, the desktop version with 128 Streaming Multiprocessors and a boost clock of 2.5 GHz. This doesn't seem to be a case of Geekbench misidentifying the SKU because it clearly says 24 GB VRAM below. Plus, the mobile GeForce RTX 5090 is tipped to come with only 16 GB of video memory, not 24 GB.
While there is a GeForce RTX 5090 24 GB variant planned for laptops at some point, it won't show up until 3 GB GDDR7 modules become mainstream. This looks like someone decided to hook up an RTX 4090 to a Razer Blade 18 and decided to take it for a spin.
Does this herald the arrival of a new eGPU dock from Razer? Probably. This is further evidenced by the actual OpenCL score of 241,793, which is much lower than its usual figure of, 345,652, indicating there is some throttling going on.
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