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, ... Read full article.