this is the new Razer blade stealth 13 more specifically the model that comes
with Intel's newest 10 gen isolate processor my favorite CP of all time and
a GTX 1615 max Q graphics card the rest of the specs includes 16 gigabytes of
RAM and dual channel mode with an insane memory speed 512 gigabytes of nvme SSD
and a 1080p IPS display the unfortunate part is that it's gonna cost you
1800 dollars that's a lot to ask for especially for a gaming laptop that
doesn't really feature top to your specs now what really makes the blade self
stand out from the competition is its form factor I think I'll get Razer the
credit for actually implementing a GTX 1650 because as far as I know this is
the only 13 inch notebook with a graphics card of that caliber so what
happens when you combine an ice-like processor from Intel with this GPU let's
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things out of the way before I talk about performance first thing is design
and it's essentially the same as the previous model Razer hasn't changed
anything here because it features the matte black anodized aluminum chassis
that feels amazing but it is a fingerprint magnet this is still one of
the best design Windows based 13-inch notebooks that I've looked at the
keyboard layout remains the same I really wished erasers spent a bit more
time re-evaluating their choice for implementing this confusing arrow key
placement it's actually pretty annoying if you ask me also Mike had some trouble
with the Enter key he thought that it was too small the keys still feel the
same not the greatest feedback on a notebook but respectable it does feature
Razer's chroma lighting but just like the old model it's not perky rather it's
single zone across the board the trackpad is still excellent
one of my favorite track bans on any windows-based PC the glass surface
really makes a world of a difference when you're navigating through the UI
and it also comes with Windows position drivers so gesture commands work
flawlessly on this laptop seriously it is it is amazing
port selection is pretty limited so on the left hand side you get a USB C 3.1
gen2 port that also acts as power in a type-a port and a headphone / mic jack
switching over to the right you'll find the type C Thunderbolt 3 port that also
functions as a power port and another type a port the speakers sound great
they are front facing which means you get a good audio projection there's good
fidelity in the higher ends I will say that it does like a little bit of bass
but then again these speakers are still some of the best compared to some
expensive gaming laptops out there the webcam quality is also pretty decent as
you can see it's not the greatest but I think it's passable the 13.3 inch
display is 1080p IPS at 60 Hertz beautiful color reproduction since it
covers 100% of the srgb color spectrum these panels are individually calibrated
out of the factory which is awesome one thing that I did notice is that the
display is a lot brighter compared to last year's model also I did run my
backlit bleed test and I did not notice any on the new stealth which is nice my
only gripe is that I wish that Razer offered a high refresh rate display on
the newer model just because it features a 1650 graphics card and in some titles
it can push over 100 fans per second and that's something that I missed when I
was actually gaming on this laptop that 60 Hertz definitely starts becoming a
little bit of an eyesore in my opinion the included AC adapter is bigger than
last year's model and that has to do with the power delivery because it's a
hundred Watts versus 65 watts and that makes sense because this notebook has a
powerful graphics card a 1650 to be more precise versus an MX 150 from last year
actually it's not last year it's early 2019 because the older ariza blade
stealth was launched earlier this year this is the newer version I want to say
this is the late 2019 Edition in terms of upgrade ability the only possible
thing that you can upgrade is the SSD the RAM is soldered onto the motherboard
the nvme SSD itself is very fast in fact it's one of the fastest drives that have
tested so far the battery size remains the same compared to the
his model it actually lasted longer than the older model thanks to the power
efficient isolate processor so on our light load test refreshing Chrome for 15
seconds the notebook lasted over seven hours
whereas on our heavy load test running real bench on a loop the system lasted
for two and a half hours I think that's very respectable considering the
hardware that this thing packs and now the moment that you've been waiting for
performance spoiler alert guys it's really bad but
let me break it down for you you see a spur Intel spec sheet the core i7 1065
g7 has four cores and eight threads it comes to the base clock of 1.3 gigahertz
and a boost up to 3.9 on single core that is all core boost is supposed to be
3.5 gigahertz but as I was running my tests multiple times
I noticed the clock speeds were only hitting 2 gigahertz under a full
multi-core workload to give you a little bit of context the previous model
featuring the agent CPU was boosting to 3 gigahertz on all cores and reaching up
to 4 point 5 gigahertz on single core so on paper the agency PU should be faster
than the Tenjin CPU because of its sustained high clock speeds and that's
exactly what happened as you can see with Sena bench r15 are 20 and even
blender the 1065 g7 is slower than the whiskey lake core i7 85 65 you look at
those single core results heck even take a look at the blender run the Tenjin CPU
took more than three minutes to render compared to the agency view the higher
Geekbench score on the newer stealth is likely due to the insanely fast memory
speed because it's clocked at a whopping 37 33 megahertz these results are low
and that's because Razer needed to use the 1065 g7 in its lower 15 watt spec to
fit into a fin chassis with the GTX 1650 max-q
that means it actually is performing at much lower speeds than the 25 watt
version video editing performance is okay I took this 10-minute 4k project
exported to resolve to a shaft at 65 and the system took a little over 10 minutes
to complete that task I'm actually impressed by how well the GTX 1650 gets
utilized because the difference is huge compared to the MX 150 found on the
previous model considering the size this is very impressive here's a screenshot
of the CPU utilization with this program the CPU is maxed out guys but just
check out those clock speeds they're just really low I also ran our standard
Premiere Pro rendering test on the new stealth and the system took close to 19
minutes to finish that and as you can see with the CPU and GPU realization
Adobe still isn't optimized for the new eyesight processors the CP utilization
is fairly low so is the new gen 11 graphics they probably still have to
update the processor to take advantage of the new compute units on the
integrated graphics with ice Lake so potentially maybe a software update
could help fix that but for now it's really not optimized for content
creation moving on to gaming performance it's
pretty good provided you're comfortable playing demanding titles and medium to
low settings these 1650 max-q is a great GPU for 1080p gaming and it's a
welcoming upgrade over the MX 150 titles like battlefield one apex legends
overwatch all ran really well at low settings far cry 5 and Shadow the 2
mater were playable but it makes me wonder if the CPU is bottlenecking the
GPU but how does it compare to the old model featuring the MX 150 GPU well it's
pretty significant if you ask me it's amazing to see this kind of performance
coming out of a compact design taking a look at temperatures well the system ran
very cool but that was not surprising since the CPU isn't boosting high enough
the GPU only peaked at 68 C and the max clock I noticed was eighteen thirty
megahertz so that's really good fan noise is very minimal right now in its
idle state it's completely silent and even if I were to push a gaming scenario
the system doesn't sound like a jet fan so that's really great so I guess this
brings me to the conclusion and guys I had high hopes for this laptop because
as soon as Ray's announced that they were gonna implement a gtx 1650 max
queue in a 13-inch notebook my excitement level just sparked crazy high
i was so excited to get this in the studio and test it out for myself i was
also thinking maybe this could replace my editing workstation which is the
blade 15 advanced because the form factor is so it's just perfect for
traveling and all that kind of stuff but I think the biggest drawback for this
notebook is that isolate processor it is just really slow compared to the riskily
processor and I was expecting the IPC improvements to sort of make up for that
but that wasn't the case because those boost clocks it just isn't that
great I'm also wondering what the story would be like if Razer switched to
comment lei because the specs on those lineup look a lot more promising
compared to isolate because you get more cores and they boost higher so again I'm
dreaming I don't think that's ever gonna happen but that's just that's my take so
I don't think it's a smart choice to invest $1,800 on the new blade self
because you can spend a lot less and get a lot more performance and other gaming
laptops that are in the market right now and I feel like the new blade stealth is
really targeted towards a specific type of demographic people will actually need
that gain horsepower in a smaller form factor then again I would actually wait
because Razer's are first to come up with a notebook in this form factor with
pretty good specs except for that isolate processor so I'll just wait to
see what the competition has to offer in the upcoming months
but until then hold on to this or hold off to this that's I think that's a more
appropriate way of saying it thank you so much for watching guys amoeba with
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