Acer Nitro 5, Powered by 11th Gen Intel Core H35-series processors and NVIDIA GeForce GTX GPUs is revealed at CES 2021. The new gaming notebook will come in 15″ and 17″display variants. Both will be available in EMEA in March 2021, with a starting price of $750. You can also opt for AMD Ryzen 9 5900 HX CPU
NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 30 Series Laptop GPUs, powered by the NVIDIA Ampere architecture, increase energy efficiency by up to 2x, accelerate performance dramatically and introduce third-generation Max-Q technologies for thin and lightweight designs. GeForce RTX 30 Series Laptop GPUs deliver stunning ray-traced gaming experiences in Cyberpunk 2077 and other top titles, and enable creators to produce incredible content using hundreds of GPU-accelerated apps.
“With the advancement of our 5th Gen AeroBlade 3D fan and related thermal technologies, we’re excited to pack even more power into our thin and portable Predator Triton series,” said James Lin, General Manager, Notebooks, IT Products Business, Acer Inc. “The Predator Triton 300 SE incorporates the new 11th Gen Intel Core H35-series processors specifically designed for ultraportable gaming and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 Series Laptop GPUs, plus up to 10 hours of battery life[2] for those who need to use it for productivity between gaming sessions.”
“The new 11th Gen Intel Core H35-series processor delivers enthusiast level gameplay in ultramobile laptops, featuring the Special Edition Intel Core i7 with up to 5.0 GHz and new platform advantages like PCIe Gen 4 to fully enable the latest enthusiast discrete graphics,” said Fredrik Hamberger, General Manager of Premium and Enthusiast Laptop Platforms, Client Computing Group at Intel. “Packing all of this performance and connectivity with Wi-Fi 6 in a lower thermal envelope enables amazing innovation in the ultraportable gaming segment, as exemplified by the new Acer Predator Triton design.”
The Acer Nitro 5, powered by 11th Gen Intel Core H35-series processors or AMD Ryzen 9 5900 HX CPU and NVIDIA GeForce GTX GPUs (up to RTX3080), supports up to 32GB of RAM. The display (15″ or 17″ comes with 3ms response time and has 144Hz refresh rate. You can opt for FullHD 360Hz refresh rate panel or for 1440p 144Hz panel. There is no G-SYNC or FreeSync support though. The display has maximum brightness of 300nits which could be a bit low if you want to game in bright environment. Thanks to thin bezels, Acer was able to reach 80% screen to body ratio for the Nitro 5.
Coming to ports, the Acer Nitro 5 comes with USB Type-C, Type-A, HDMI ports. Other specs include Wi-Fi 6, 4-zone RGB lighting for full size keyboard, NitroSense application to monitor temperature and adjust fan speeds.
