With the launch of the desktop GeForce RTX 5090 now behind us, Nvidia wants to turn our attention to the mobile versions coming out before the end of this month. The Razer Blade 16 is quickly becoming the poster child for the mobile RTX series followed closely by the Lenovo Legion Pro 7i Gen 10 and Asus Zephyrus G16. For GDC 2025, the chipmaker pitted a 2024 Blade 16 running Cyberpunk 2077 on an RTX 4090 against a 2025 Blade 16 running on an RTX 5090 side-by-side with otherwise identical native resolutions to show the performance differences between them.
According to the demo, the 2025 Blade 16 can offer over 100% faster FPS (186 vs. 88) alongside 43 percent lower CPU utilization and 27 percent faster latency (81 ms to 59 ms) with DLSS 4 Performance active versus DLSS 3. The lower CPU utilization is partly due to the newer generation AMD CPU as the 2025 Blade 16 comes exclusively with AMD processors while the 2024 model was powered by Intel. Meanwhile, Nvidia contributes the latency improvements to the higher “native” frame rates with the RTX 5090 GPU when compared to the RTX 4090 and the new transformer model powering DLSS 4.
GPU utilization is about 37 percent higher with DLSS 4 when compared to DLSS 3 which Nvidia says is again due to the demanding multi-frame generation (MFG) model. The company is claiming that GeForce RTX 50 laptops will be less CPU bound when gaming meaning that the new Blackwell GPUs should pair better with slower CPUs this generation for potentially thinner designs. Even the AMD CPU in the new Blade 16 operates at lower TDP targets when compared to the Intel-powered 2024 model.
It was not specified during the demo what frame generation level was used (2x, 3x, or 4x) to achieve the massive FPS boost, but results should nonetheless be impressive for titles that support DLSS 4.
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