An earlier leak revealed to us the existence of an HP Omen laptop equipped with next-generation hardware from Nvidia and Intel. Many OEMs are expected to follow suit, and we’ve just stumbled upon one of Razer’s most sophisticated offerings. However, the Razer Blade 18 variant in question raises more questions than it answers.
On Geekbench we can see the new 18-inch with a Core Ultra 9 275HX, Intel’s flagship Arrow Lake-HX processor. 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. So far everything looks okay, until we take a look at the GPU.
The Razer Blade 18 in question seems to work with a proper GeForce RTX 4090. Yes, the desktop version with 128 streaming multiprocessors and a 2.5 GHz clock. It doesn’t appear that Geekbench misidentified the SKU, as it clearly says 24GB VRAM underneath. Additionally, the GeForce RTX 5090 mobile card is said to come with only 16GB of video memory, not 24GB.
Although there is a GeForce RTX 5090 24 GB planned for laptops, it will not appear until 3 GB GDDR7 modules become widespread. Looks like someone decided to plug an RTX 4090 into a Razer Blade 18 and decided to give it a spin.
Does this herald the arrival of a new eGPU dock from Razer? Probably. The proof is the OpenCL score of 241,793, which is much lower than its usual score of 345,652, indicating that there is some throttling going on.
