Earlier this week, my hardware’s Overword Dave James and I had a gaming laptop dust -up. Each of us brought our top contenders to the office from the latest, RTX 50 series Generation, took them to a quiet corner, and to know which one is better.
I thought I was honestly, with a very strong opportunity. My selected machine (or at least, my debt review sample) was the new Asos Rogue Zafirus G16, in which we saw the latest version of a laptop that we saw wearing a crown of the best gaming laptop as a whole. Dave, however, released the 2025 version of the Razer Blade 16, which has a thin, editor update in the blade line that has been setting his hair (metaphorically) for the past few weeks.
Now dust is settled, there is a clear winner: Roger blade has returned, and a small GG 16, after a brave battle, his aluminum frame remains on his knees.
Our special blade topic is fully featured with 175 WRTX 5090 mobile GPUs, while Asos has used 120 WRTX 5080. Therefore, it was never about direct performance comparisons-however, according to its price, RTX offers a good account of the lower power of 5080.
No, instead we decided to see which of these two would actually buy. With our own money. Yes, gaming laptops are special things. If you are buying a gaming PC, you can tolerate a little rope chassis, or fans noise. However, it is likely to sit under your desk for the next few years, and raw performance is probably your top concern.
All pictures: Razer Blade on the left, on the right asus rog zephyrus g16.
But a gaming laptop is to be with you. For example, it needs to slip into his bag on a moment’s notice. It can join you in your next flight, or a little bit to see YouTube overnight. You can use it for the train a little rod, then plug it into your monitor when you get home for some appropriate 4K gaming.
A good gaming laptop is more than just a machine: It’s a partner, a reliable friend you should use you in your daily life as well as at home.
Both laptops are thin, that’s definitely. You can take a lot of happiness all day on your back without any complaint. The secret is slightly heavy, at 2.14kg of 1.95kg of G16, but in practice, I don’t think you will feel. The blade is also slightly larger with a long deck.
However, both, immediately remind me of how gaming laptops have come in recent years. Although the gaming laptops are still one thing (Gigabybite Oravers 16 Springs are in mind with their coffee chassis), we are now living in a world where portable gaming power does not mean that they will take with you all day granite slab.
Therefore, this is a draw on portability, which is probably a little ahead of the G16. The next one is comparison with the display, and we have arranged them together and run the HDR video test to find out which screen is excellent.
Although G16 has a fantastic 240 Hz 1600 PO LED display, it experiences itself less than a similar panel in the razor machine. HDR highlights look brighter on the blade screen, and the colors are significantly more rich. Both panels are very good, there is no doubt, but it is clear that the blade is winning this particular war.
So, on the noise of the fans. If I am honest, a point of conflict for all gaming laptops. None of them are silent under a heavy burden, but this particular battle was the same as I was most nervous. Intel Core Ultra 9 285h The G16 likes to run the chip warm, and I saw during my testing that when the CPU is really pushed the push, it is born in a loud voice.
Blade, with her AMD AI 9 HX 370Doesn’t It’s still not Silent During a time, the spy during an extreme run, naturally, but the absence of this hearing top note makes it a more pleasant machine to hear it. A great joy of a gaming laptop, I have found for many years, is that you can sit on the couch with your nearest and loved ones and do a little gaming while watching TV. Mighty, but enjoying different media in pleasant harmony.
You don’t want with G16. I can think of some things that the fans of the Asos machine should be thrown a remote at me instead of rotating for a bit of Baldor Gate 3, while my partner watchs the realistic TV series about Wapd people on luxury yacht. You know someone I will not say his name here.
Battery life? The blade won once again, just. NVIDIA battery can provide a wonderful amount of up time while gaming thanks to Boost Tech, but the blade takes it out.
And then we come to a thorny question of money. Although we have not yet confirmed the exact model of G16 that I am testing, the 64GB version is on the ASUS store page 6 3,600. UK 32 GB version, however, is 4 3,400And I expect America’s price to be the same.
It seems that the Razer looks like RTX 5080 blades (in response to the new revenue, I have reduced my prices for Wedger, which seems to be throwing hardware pricing at the time right), but before it was listed at Roger’s site at $ 3,500.
2025 Blade 16 has accelerated its talons, has gone up, and is returning from his training and looks like a gaming laptop that can take all contenders.
So it is difficult to compare directly directly. But these laptops are in direct competition with each other, I would say that it is likely that the two will compete with the prices of equal models in the next few months. The razor told me that new blades will be “aggressively” in CES this year, and it seems that the work is still underway.
Whatever pricing is a question mark, once you add 000 3,000+ to the gaming laptop, the weird $ 100 becomes a decrease factor. The simple fact is: Although ASUS ROG Zepphyrus G16 2025 is still a very desirable gaming laptop, I have to admit that with my own personal funds, I will buy the secret instead. Even if it becomes a bit more expensive.
And the reason is not that Dave is my boss. No, we have friendly differences over hardware opinions in many years, and I know that if I defended G16, it left me behind. But sticking to these laptops as well, it is clear that the blade 16 is the one you want to stay with-and I will spend my original amount in the gaming laptop if I am buying meg-mobile machine right now.
Which is a hell of change for Roger. We complained last year that the Roger blade lineup had lost its edge, and it seems that Roger thought the same, because he made a gaming laptop that is extremely premium, highly desired, and very easy to live with, on the face of hard asus competition.
2025 Blade 16 has accelerated its tallon, the gym has gone, and returning from its training looks like a gaming laptop that can take all the contenders and get the top.
For now, at least. We are at the tip of the Niza for the RTX 50 Series Gaming Laptop at this location, and manufacturers like Asus, Gigabite, MSI and more will be new models to throw in color in the next few months. For now, though, the razor blade 16 rule. And even I, the team’s largest G -16 fans, have to admit that it has to be defeated.
