Acer Nitro 5 AN515-57 Gaming Laptop

Acer Nitro 5 AN515-57 Gaming Laptop | Intel Core i7-11800H |NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Laptop Graphics |15.6″ FHD 144Hz IPS Display |16GB DDR4 |256GB SSD+1TB HDD |Killer Wi-Fi 6 |RGB Backlit Keyboard

Acer sent me a sample of their Nitro 5 AN515-57, the code name for the 2021 model built on Intel Tiger Lake 11th gen Core i7 and i5 hardware. It’s an early sample but runs on the latest software available as of early August 2021, so I feel confident to share my findings with you in this article, with the reserve that some aspects might still change with future BIOS updates.

Our test configuration is the Intel Core i7-11800H processor paired with an RTX 3070 Laptop dGPU and 16 GB of memory in dual channel (but single rank sticks), pretty much the top specs you will be able to buy on this Nitro 5 sub-lineup. So, let’s see what this is all about.

Acer offers the 2021 Nitro 5 series in a multitude of configurations and in either 15 to 17-inch screen sizes. As far as the Nitro 5 AN515-57 sub-family goes, I’d expect your best bang for the buck in either the affordable 6Core i5-11400H + RTX 3050Ti configuration or the mid-tier variant based on the 8Core i7-11800H + RTX 3060. Design-wise, the Nitro 5 series has been fairly consistent over the years, just cleaner in branding and red accents with each update. As a result, this 2021 generation is entirely black, with muted black Acer branding elements on the lid and under the screen, and just a little bit of red on the back edge.

The whole thing is averagely compact and lightweight, but not as small as other laptops in this class, as you can tell from the bezels around the screen. Performance of laptop withNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050. The laptop is integrated. The display of the laptop is 15.6 inches. The battery of the laptop is Li-ion. The storage of the laptop is 256 GB SSD. The ram of the laptop is 16 GB.