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It’s clearly a budget gaming laptop, but feels more premium and robust than earlier models, though there’s a little more flex in the lid than I’d like. The Nitro 5 follows the same basic design as the Acer Nitro 16, with the same sculpted, wedge-shaped profile, chunky vents and gloss-finish lid, though without the chunky N logo in the centre of the coloured lines. Keyboard isn’t clicky but is quiet and comfortable.Impressive connectivity with Thunderbolt 4 and HDMI 2.1.This one ships in three versions: the Core i5/16GB version available from Acer and reviewed here, plus Core i5/8GB and Core i7/16GB variants available from Argos for £1000 and £1300. In fact, the new Nitro 5 does a great job of balancing out its features and its spec.

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And where the RTX 4050 featured here struggled to deliver enough pixels at enough speed to fill the 16-inch QHD screen on the Nitro 5’s higher-end sibling, the Acer Nitro 16, it’s a better match for the 15.6-inch 1080p screen of the budget model. We usually get excited about this stuff when it comes to high-end gaming laptops, but if anything it’s even more crucial at the entry-level, enabling you to squeeze even higher frame rates out of relatively low-end hardware.

The Acer Nitro 5 (2023) is the latest iteration of Acer’s budget gaming laptop, aiming to deliver a decent entry-level spec for playing current PC games, at a price most of us would think of as affordable.Īs with the rest of this year’s Nitro range, the big news is the shift from Nvidia’s ageing RTX 30 series graphics chips to the new RTX 40 series GPUs, bringing not just the latest generation ray tracing and tensor tech, but access to DLSS 3 with Frame Generation too.

Gaming-focused display A Full HD 144Hz display enables higher frame rates with more advanced graphics settings from entry-level hardware.

DLSS 3 Bolsters frame rates in higher settings or with ray tracing.

1080p gaming 12th Gen Intel CPU and Nvidia GeForce RTX 4050 GPU gives you 1080p gaming.

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