Razer has officially unveiled the 2026 Blade 18 today, and at the heart of all three configurations is an Intel Arrow Lake processor .

I’m talking about the Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus , which features 24 cores, up to 5.5GHz clock speed (with boost), 36MB cache, and an onboard NPU that delivers up to 13 TOPS of compute power.

Meet the next-gen Razer Blade 18, our most powerful Blade ever, bringing desktop-class performance to a portable form factor: https://t.co/BWOuEtjGf9

Powered by the Intel® Core™ Ultra 9 290HX PLUS processor and up to NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 5090 Laptop Graphics with 24GB VRAM,… pic.twitter.com/UYaRxPk2Nj

— R Λ Z Ξ R (@Razer) May 14, 2026

How many GPU options do you get with the Blade 18?

The baseline variant pairs the Core Ultra 9 290HX Plust with the Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti (12GB GDDR7 VRAM, up to 140W TGP) graphics card and costs $3,999.99.…