The Acer Nitro 5 AN515-45-R7S0 is another Ryzen 7 5800H and RTX 3070 combination, which we’ve seen a lot of lately. A lot of gaming laptop OEMs have put these two things together like a good cheese and wine. The Nitro 5 also shows off everything we like about AMD’s 5000 series CPU and Nvidia’s RTX 3070 (Max Q) by putting out impressive frame rates at 1080p.
The inclusion of a 1TB NVMe PCIe SSD is a nice touch, but it should be a requirement for any serious gaming laptop these days, because these drives are so useful. It’s sad to see gaming laptops with only 512GB SSDs. You have speed, but a few big games tend to fill up your storage quickly. In a few weeks, you’ll look for a bigger SSD deal.
[content-egg-block template=offers_logo hide=price]The Nitro 5 has a 2.5 drive bay in case you want to use an SSD and HDD together to save money. The Nitro 5 is fine in terms of how it’s made. The chassis is made of plastic, but it doesn’t bend or flex much when used normally. This isn’t too surprising when you think about how chunky the whole system is.
It’s a pretty thick system, making it slightly stronger. For a cheap laptop, the keyboard is a little better than you might expect. The keys have a nice bounce, and the keyboard has RGB backlighting that can be changed in four different zones. The touchpad works well enough. Overall, the quality of the build is pretty good, but there’s nothing to write home about.
A lot of the cost of more expensive laptops goes towards making them thin, but a chassis like this one is a lot cheaper. The Acer has a height of 1.06 inches, a width of 14.1 inches, and a depth of 10.7 inches. It weighs 5.51 pounds and has a height, width, and depth of 1.06 inches, 14.1 inches, and 10.7 inches, respectively. It’s not the first computer you’d want to take with you everywhere, but for a cheap gaming system, it’s not too big.
The Nitro 5 has a wide body, so it can connect to a lot of different things. There is an HDMI 2.0 port and a USB-C 3.2 port that can be used for both Thunderbolt 4 and DisplayPort Alternate Mode. Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.2 are used to connect wirelessly.
Intel’s Killer Wi-Fi AX1650i is the wireless adapter. It works almost as fast as a Gigabit at close range, but it didn’t work well in my shed, which is 50 feet and two walls away from the router. The battery on the laptop is only 51 watt-hours.