Razer’s Blade 18 is getting a $500 price hike and a new Intel chip
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FollowSee All NewsRazer’s Blade 18 is getting a $500 price hike and a new Intel chipRAMageddon has come for the Blade 18 — and the Blade 16, too. RAMageddon has come for the Blade 18 — and the Blade 16, too. Di Benedetto Antonio G.
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He spent over 15 years in the photography industry before joining The Verge as a deals writer in 2021. Razer just announced a new Blade 18 gaming laptop with an Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus chip. The flagship laptop is available now on Razer’s site, starting at $3,999.
99 with an Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti and configurable with up to an RTX 5090. That starting config is $500 more than the 2025 model with the same GPU, and it comes a year after the 2025 Blade 18 got a price increase before even going on sale. The new Blade 18 seems very much like a chip bump from Intel Arrow Lake to Arrow Lake Refresh.
It has the same GPU offerings as last year and once again a unique dual-mode 18-inch display. Razer claims the screen is 20 percent brighter this year, and it can still run at either a high resolution 3840 x 2400 with speedy 240Hz or 1920 x 1200 at an ultra-fast 440Hz. That’s a super high refresh rate for a laptop screen, but 1200p across an 18-inch display of course won’t look nearly as crisp as 4K.
This advance offers important signals about the future of the sector, and the tech world is watching closely.
