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All of the testing on the Razer Blade Pro 17 was conducted with the laptop charger plugged in and the best performance battery profile selected. The Razer Blade by default is also set to the balanced profile and I went into the synapse software and adjusted the performance sliders to high on both the CPU & GPU. This allows the laptop to really stretch its legs and get the highest benchmark scores possible.
Crystal Disk Mark:
CrystalDiskMark tests the raw speed of a storage device. It uses a test file to write data to or read data from the drive. We test using the default 1GB file size.
The Samsung PM98 NVMe M.2 drive that can be found in this laptop is a very fast drive that beats out many of the other laptops Kitguru have tested. This is good to see as we have seen other laptop manufactures putting sub par storage even in high end machines. With such fast read and write speeds everything you ask of the Razer blade feels snappy and responsive great for handling large programs and files.
However you also only get the single 512GB drive in the Razer blade though and without the addition of a HDD it is possible you will run out of storage. It's definitely something worth considering if you have a large catalogue of games you want to install.
Cinebench R15:
Cinebench R15 is a cross-platform testing suite that measures CPU performance. I compared the Razer Blade Pro 17 with some other laptops Kitguru have tested that feature the same or similar i7 processors for a quick comparison to demonstrate its relative performance.
With a score of 1252 the Razer Blade 17 sits right near the top when it comes to CPU performance. There isn't much between the I7-8750H & I7-9750H CPUs as cooling and temperature are the restricting factors when it comes to the performance from both these processors. The Razer Blade 17 does however beat out the I7 8750H in the Razer Blade 15 which has a similar design. Because the Razer Blade 17 can cool effectively the processor can boost reasonably high and obtain a good score.
Cinebench R20:
Improvements to Cinebench Release 20 reflect the overall advancements to CPU and rendering technology in recent years, providing a more accurate measurement of Cinema 4D’s ability to take advantage of multiple CPU cores and modern processor features available to the average user.
As Cinebench R20 is a reasonably new release I have less data to compare the Razer Blade 17 to. However there is no doubt that the score of 2751 is very impressive and it beats out all the laptops we have tested to date.
