Razer Blade 16 pricing leaks: $2,000 for RTX 5060 model

In brief: Razer has long had a reputation for making sleek, stylish, and expensive laptops, something that appears especially apparent in the Blade 16. Despite packing the (still unreleased) mid-range RTX 5060, it will reportedly be priced at $2,000. It’s worth remembering that when consumer Blackwell was announced in January, Nvidia said the starting price for laptops with the RTX 5070 GPU would be $1,299.

We’re still waiting for both the desktop and laptop versions of the RTX 5060 to arrive, though they are rumored to launch either late in March or in April.

In February, Razer announced the latest version of its desktop-replacement Blade 18 gaming laptop, which can be specced up to an RTX 5090. Now, prolific leaker momomo_us has posted a spec chart for the Blade 16.

As the image shows, the cheapest version of the laptop comes with an RTX 5060 and a Ryzen AI 9 365 CPU, but this will still set you back $1,999.

Prices scale rapidly based on the included GPU: $2,399 for an RTX 5070, $2,599 for an RTX 5070 Ti, $2,999/$3,299 for a 5080, and $3,799 for the RTX 5090. There is a final column for the 5090 with a listed price of $1,499, but this is obviously an error. This top specification includes 4TB of M.2 storage and 64GB of LPDDR5X memory, so the correct price could be $4,499.

While Razer Blade laptops are notoriously expensive, the prices are far above the starting prices that Nvidia announced for its RTX 50-series laptop GPUs. Razer will likely point to features such as the 240Hz OLED display, but consumers are unlikely to see past the fact it’s $2,000 for a 16-inch RTX 5060 laptop when there are similar RTX 4070 laptops for around $500 less.

In fairness to Razer, many other RTX 5000 laptops from big companies carry similar price tags. The RTX 5080-powered MSI Stealth, which has a screen comparable to the Blade, is $3,399, while the Asus ROG Strix is $3,299. Newegg lists many of these laptops with a March 31 release date, while others are arriving in mid-April. There are no listings for machines with the RTX 5060, though.