Want the Most Affordable Gaming Laptop Possible? Get an Acer Aspire 7!

    Some people like to game but don’t want to be known as gamers. Thankfully, there are laptops out there that harness the power of gaming hardware, but hide this fact when it comes to the design or anything else. Sometimes, they are quite affordable too, like today’s Acer Aspire 7, which is an affordable daily driver device, that still carries an RTX 3050 and an 8-core Core i5 processor.

    Here’s a glimpse of what an Aspire 7 can do compared to its gaming counterpart, as well as some competitors.

    Acer Aspire 7 (A715-76 / A715-76G): Full Specs / In-depth Review

    GPU benchmarks

    Here you can see that the Aspire 7 can hang with dedicated gaming laptops without a problem.

    Not a Gaming Laptop – Aspire 7
    Gaming Laptop – Nitro V 15 (Intel)
    Gaming Laptop – Nitro V 15 (AMD)

    Gaming tests


    Assassin’s Creed ValhallaFull HD, Low (Check settings)Full HD, Medium (Check settings)Full HD, High (Check settings)Full HD, Ultra (Check settings)
    Average FPS88 fps64 fps44 fps29 fps

    Borderlands 3Full HD, V.Low (Check settings)Full HD, Medium (Check settings)Full HD, High (Check settings)Full HD, Badass (Check settings)
    Average FPS96 fps78 fps55 fps42 fps

    Far Cry 6Full HD, Low (Check settings)Full HD, High (Check settings)Full HD, Ultra (Check settings)
    Average FPS83 fps66 fps56 fps

    Gears 5Full HD, Low (Check settings)Full HD, Medium (Check settings)Full HD, High (Check settings)Full HD, Ultra (Check settings)
    Average FPS113 fps89 fps77 fps60 fps

    Acer Aspire 7 (A715-76 / A715-76G) recenzie detaliată

    If you need an all-purpose laptop that lacks the typical gaming design of modern machines, you don't have a lot of options. Especially if you don't want to pay a whole fortune for an office notebook that is going to be used for playing some games for an hour or two after work.In this scenario, the Acer Aspire 7 (A715-76G) is one of the possible solutions. The laptop doesn't cost much and it offers Intel Alder Lake-H CPU options and optional RTX 3000 and RTX 2000 dGPU variants. On top of that, you can configure it with a high refresh rate display and this will transform it into a pretty dec[...]

    Avantaje

    • Great cooling, which provides surprisingly good performance
    • Wi-Fi 6E + 2x SODIMM slots + 2x M.2 slots
    • Decent battery life given the hardware
    • PWM-free display (Innolux N156HCA-EAB (CMN15E7))
    • Adequate pricing
    • Aluminum lid and stable base for the most part
    • Good I/O for the class

    Dezavantaje

    • No SD card reader
    • Covers only 58% of the sRGB color gamut (Innolux N156HCA-EAB (CMN15E7))
    • Noisy fans in "Performance mode"
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