Acer Nitro 5

Acer is ready to conquer the budget gaming market once again. This time, the Nitro 5 brings changes on the outside, as well as the mandatory update in the hardware department. Instead of making it more appealing to the thin and light purists, Acer has decided to go all-in and battle the TUFs and IdeaPad Gamings of the world.We are pretty confident that the Nitro 5 will at least be close to winning. In fact, the AN515-58 version now comes with the beastly 12th Gen series from Intel. It puts back AMD where it belongs (at least from Intel's point of view) - at a distant second place.The CPU is paired with an Ampere graphics card from NVIDIA. Surprisingly, the modest TGPs are now gone, and you get a 20W boost for the RTX 3050 and RTX 3050 Ti, where the maximum TGP is now 95W. The more[...]