Nitro An515-55

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Asfar as the practical aspects go, I will complain about a few details, such as the fact that the status LEDs are annoyingly placed just beneath the screen and the front lip and corners are too sharp for my liking. For the most part, though, this is a fine laptop. Acer put grippy feet on the bottom, implemented a hinge that allows one-hand operation and can get the screen to about 160 degrees on the back, and placed a fair selection of ports on the sides.

Acer offers a couple of different screen options for the Nitro 5 series. Once more, our sample gets the higher-tier variant, which is a fine IPS FHD panel with 144 Hz refresh rate and fairly good response times.

This is a solid choice for gaming and daily use, with 100% sRGB color coverage, wide viewing angles and almost 400-nits of brightness at its highest setting. Blacks are fairly washed out, though, and that also impacts the overall contrast.

With that out of the way, we then went ahead and further verified our findings with the longer Cinebench R20 loop test and the gruesome Prime 95, on the High Performance profile. The CPU runs at 45+ W on both tests, with fairly quiet fans and solid temperatures of around 75-80 degrees C.

We also ran our combined CPU+GPU stress tests on this notebook. 3DMark stress runs the same test for 20 times in a loop and looks for performance variation and degradation over time, and this unit passed it fine. Luxmark 3.1 fully loads both the CPU and GPU at the same time. The CPU stabilizes at around 45W and 90+ degrees C, with the GPU running at around 80W and 82+ C.

By default, both the CPU and the GPU run at high temperatures here, averaging 90+ degrees for the CPU and 78-80 degrees for the GPU between the tested titles. At the same time, the fans spin quietly at around 43-44 dB at head-level.

Switching over to the fans Max profile while the laptop sits on the desks has an even greater impact over the CPU and GPU, both running at slightly higher clocks. However, while the GPU drops to about 72-74 C in this mode, the CPU still averages 90+ C, but this time it runs close to its Turbo max frequencies. Even raising the laptop from the desk and switching the fans to Max is not enough to properly tame-down the CPU, which keeps running at high temperatures in this unit.

On the other hand, the high CPU temperatures with games, paired with only limited performance in CPU-heavy loads, plus the poor speakers and smudge-prone black plastic build are some of the aspects that could lead you towards something else. But even so, the 2020 Nitro 5 lineup is competitive in its segment, where some compromises have to be made to hit the lower price tag.

i got tired of skylake. i7 my ass. clearly worse than ryzen 5 4600h. and i got tired with those messy amazon links. somehow, they are everywhere, i keep getting them from each of youtuber and media guy.

"acer nitro 5 10750" in the amazon search field is a mess, not helpful and pisses people off. stop it please.

anyway, i have a technical question. i know psref.lenovo its a good place. do other manufacturers have a similar database?

As HP Omen with RTX2060 GPU and 10750H CPU is our of stock everywhere near me (for where the price isn't too high), same with Lenovo y540 which was my first choice, I'm trying to choose between the nitro with the 2060 and 10750, and omen 2060 and 9750h.

Seeing as you say that the performance of the 10750 for the nitro doesn't perform as well as the same CPU in other models, do you think it's possible that the Omen is better in that config?

Surprisingly the omen also cost about 170USD more while having weaker CPU, and 16gb ram compared to the 32GB of the nitro. How would you compare both laptops given these specs?

I see.

Thanks for the response.

Quick addition after more thorough search:

I found a Lenovo p5 with the same GPU rtx2060, and 10875h cpu, 16GB ram, 1T.

It is roughly 160USD more expansive.

I prefer its esthetics, and with the better GPU it seems worth it.

Do you have an opinion about how it compares?

i wanna laptop with an rtx 2060 and an intel processor but cant really make up my mind, my top picks are the acer nitro 5 and the helios 300,can you give any advice on which is better and more budget friendly or a kinda versus review?

Was told this was a top of the line gaming laptop for my budget (total was $1400 cdn from Walmart) i brought it home went to install my game there is no disc drive, has to attend an extra $50 to install the game on my to of the line gaming laptop top, it only has 1080p screen, dosen't have 4k abilities. I have a Google Pixel 3a running Lord's mobile with 3 accounts simultaneously 24/7 while still using my phone for everything else i need and never have any issues, i run 3 accounts simultaneously the laptop crashes and needs to be restarted. All i have done with it so far is play spore (am 8 year+ game that is no where near to of the line graphics and the game is constantly lagging and glitching and freezing. I've had the computer a month and it needed to be hard reset 4 times so far from freezing. The battery life is essentially non existent full charge 100% the laptop will crash with 0 battery in less than 2h of watching Netflix, (don't plan to use it to binge watch on a bus or plane) and all together i feel like my Toshiba from 8 years ago for $400 cheaper was equivalent to this machine, my Google Pixel 3a i feel is a superior machine, and have been nothing but disappointed with the acer nitro 5 i7 since i got it

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