If you want as large of a screen as possible, this is for you.
Diving into the gaming performance, which is presumably the reason you’re here: The Blade 18 did well. At QHD resolution, it ran every game at over 60fps — evenwith ray tracing on, which is bonkers. Peruse the provided benchmark chart at your leisure. But what kind of a performance penalty do you see when moving from the 4090 down to the 4080? The answer, as far as I can tell, is… not a big one.
The Blade 16 is a smaller machine than the Blade 18, so things like cooling and power limits might be coming into play there. For what it’s worth, though,, is also only single-digit percentages ahead of the Blade 18 on many of these titles. All in all, the RTX 4080 is looking like a solidly better value than the RTX 4090 based on these results.performance over our Blade 17 review unit from last year . I’m just sharing that because I found it humorous.
Speaking of battery life: It’s not great. I got three hours and 46 minutes out of this device, using it solely for Chrome multitasking and some streaming . On the one hand, it is better than what we saw from the Blade 17 last year . And battery life isn’t as crucial on giant gaming rigs as it is in the ultraportable market.
While the Blade 18 is technically a new device, it’s currently the closest thing we have to a sequel to last year’s Blade 17