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In this episode of the Full Nerd, Gordon Mah Ung, Brad Chacos, Adam Patrick Murray , and PCWorld executive editor Melissa Riofrio discuss the key takeaways from our Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 review, and how AMD performs after Principled Technologies revised its controversial benchmarking methodologies for testing commissioned by Intel.

Did we say RTX 2070 review? Sorry, reviews. Brad benched both the $600 Nvidia RTX 2070 Founders Edition and the $550 EVGA RTX 2070 XC, the latter of which ran cold as ice and earned an Editors’ Choice award. And boy, things sure are different this time around. While the RTX 2080 isn’t a slam-dunk must-buy over the GTX 1080 Ti, the new GeForce RTX 2070 packs in a 10 to 20 percent performance bump along with the fancy ray tracing and AI-boosting hardware inside Nvidia’s radical Turing GPU. It’s a no-brainer over the GTX 1080 unless you can find a sweet deal on the older GPU.

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‘Razer’ and ‘affordable’ go together about as well as ‘Apple’ and ‘affordable.’ That all changed Wednesday night when Razer introduced the Razer Blade 15 Base Model gaming laptop.

The Razer Blade 15 Base Model with 8th-gen Core i7-8750H, GeForce GTX 1060 Max-Q 16GB of RAM, 128GB SSD, and 1TB hard drive will be available starting Wednesday night for $1,599. The company also has a configuration for $1,799 that doubles the SSD and hard drive capacities.

If spending less than $1,600 for a gaming laptop is beneath you, Razer also announced a special edition of the Razer Blade 15 Advanced Model in all-white. Called the Razer Blade 15 Mercury White Limited Edition, the laptop clones the specs of the current Advanced Edition except for the white aluminum shell and non-backlit logo on the lid.

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Alienware’s beefy gaming laptops have never been known to be thin, but that’s about to change. The new Alienware m15 introduced Thursday is a whopping 17 percent thinner and 30 percent smaller than the current 15-inch Alienware laptop. 

Pricing of the new Alienware m15 wasn’t immediately available, but it’s likely to be in the same range as its thicker relative’s going rate. Much will depend on what’s inside when it goes on sale October 25.

Why this matters: Gaming laptops are the last bastion of hulking, fire-breathing, theoretically portable PCs. But thin is in, even with gamers, and new generations of CPU and GPU have made slimmer performance laptops possible. Alienware’s m15 is just the latest to get the Biggest Loser makeover, while maintaining a decent amount of gaming cred. 

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