PC World - USA (2020-12)

66 PCWorld DECEMBER 2020

REVIEWS ACER NITRO 5

probably want to

upgrade to an external

webcam for your

Twitch channel.

PORTS

The Nitro 5 comes

with a solid collection

of ports, including (on

the left side) a pair of

USB SuperSpeed

10Gbs Type-A ports, a

drop-jaw gigabit

ethernet port for wired

internet, a combo

audio jack, and a

laptop security slot.

On the right sits a

USB SuperSpeed

10Gbps Type-C port,

a USB SuperSpeed

5Gbps Type-A port,

and a full HDMI 2.0

interface.

That’s a pretty impressive array of ports

for a budget gaming laptop like this one,

particularly the trio of speedy USB ports and

the ethernet interface. A media card reader

would have been a nice touch, but its

absence on a gaming laptop like the Nitro 5

isn’t a deal-breaker.

GENERAL PERFORMANCE

For $670, you’re simply not going to get a

gaming laptop with a GPU capable of ray

tracing or Nvidia’s AI-enabled DLSS

acceleration. Instead, you’ll wind up with a

laptop like the Nitro 5, whose solid,

midrange GTX 1650 will serve up

graphically maxed-out visuals in the 60-fps

range, give or take. That’s pretty much what

we got during our real-world tests with the

laptop, along with some pretty impressive

CPU performance courtesy of the Nitro 5’s

The left side of the Nitro 5 features a pair of USB SuperSpeed 10Gbps Type-A

ports, along with a drop-jaw ethernet port and a combo audio jack.

Right-side ports on the Nitro 5 include USB SuperSpeed 10Gbps Type-C, USB

SuperSpeed 5Gbps Type-A, and a full HDMI 2.0 interface.