Acer Nitro V 15 (ANV15-51) review – successful symbiosis between the Aspire and the Nitro series

Temperatures and comfort, Battery Life

Max CPU load

In this test we use 100% on the CPU cores, monitoring their frequencies and chip temperature. The first column shows a computer’s reaction to a short load (2-10 seconds), the second column simulates a serious task (between 15 and 30 seconds), and the third column is a good indicator of how good the laptop is for long loads such as video rendering.

Average P-core frequency; Average E-core frequency; CPU temp.; Package Power

Intel Core i5-13420H (45W TDP)	0:02 – 0:10 sec	0:15 – 0:30 sec	10:00 – 15:00 min
Acer Nitro V 15 (ANV15-51)	4.38 GHz @ 3.30 GHz @ 96°C @ 104W	3.92 GHz @ 3.06 GHz @ 97°C @ 79W	3.40 GHz @ 2.75 GHz @ 87°C @ 55W

The frequencies and the power limit under any kind of load are impressive for a budget device. That’s why the laptop always feels responsive. On the other hand, the thermals are hitting the 96 – 97°C mark in short and medium loads.

Real-life gaming

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6GB	GPU frequency/ Core temp (after 2 min)	GPU frequency/ Core temp (after 30 min)
Acer Nitro V 15 (ANV15-51)	1819 MHz @ 63°C @ 63W	1816 MHz @ 64°C @ 63W

The GPU can sustain stable clocks and 63W TGP after half an hour of gaming. The thermals are under control.

Gaming comfort

You have three power presets at your disposal and you can control the fans manually by setting a custom RPM curve.

The noise during gaming is adequate for an inexpensive gaming device – the two fans are rotating at around 4400 RPM in “Performance” mode. Interestingly, the noise under heavy CPU loads is much higher because the rotation speed is ~ 7000 RPM (which is also the maximum fan speed, ouch). If that’s too loud for you, switching to “Balanced” mode will lower the noise (~3600 – 3900 RPM) but the performance will be also hindered. The keyboard isn’t too hot for normal usage when the internals are heavily stressed which is good news.

Battery

Now, we conduct the battery tests with the Windows Better performance setting turned on, screen brightness adjusted to 120 nits and all other programs turned off except for the one we are testing the notebook with. This notebook’s 57Wh battery lasts for 7 hours and 42 minutes of Web browsing, or 6 hours and 40 minutes of video playback. That’s okay given the hardware under the bonnet and the modest battery capacity.