PC World - USA (2020-12)

DECEMBER 2020 PCWorld 67

With its Ryzen 4000-series CPU, the Nitro 5 ripped
through our HandBrake test.

HandBrake Total

Encode Time

Seconds

Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 Ryzen 9 4900HS

Acer Nitro 5 AN515-44-R99q Ryzen 5 4600H

Acer Predator Triton 500Core i7-10750H

Acer Predator Triton 500Core i7-8750H

Lenovo Yoga C940 15Core i7-9750H

HP Pavilion Gaming LaptopCore i7-9750H

Acer Nitro 5 AN515-54-51M5Core i5-9300H

Microsoft Surface Book 3Core i7-1065G7

SHORTER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE

1,332

1,8 4 8

1,737

2,642

1,685

2,070

1,827

3,285

Ryzen 4000-series chip. We even saw some
surprisingly good battery life.

HANDBRAKE
Our first benchmark is a veritable torture test
for CPUs, measuring how long it takes for a
given laptop to process a 30GB MKV file
using the free HandBrake utility. The test
generally takes an hour or more, giving us a
good idea of how a given system handles
high CPU loads over long periods.
The Nitro 5 and its hexa-core Ryzen 5
4600H processor manage to scare up
some impressive numbers in our HandBrake
test (remember, shorter bars are better),
coming in second only to the Asus ROG
Zephyrus G14, a laptop that costs twice as

The Nitro 5 scored better in our Cinebench test

than many laptops that cost hundreds more.

Cinebench R15.038

Multi-/single-threaded performance

LONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCET

Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 Ryzen 9 4900HS

Acer Nitro 5 AN515-44-R99q Ryzen 5 4600H

Acer Predator Triton 500Core i7-10750H

Lenovo Yoga C940 15Core i7-9750H

Acer Predator Triton 500Core i7-8750H

HP Pavilion Gaming LaptopCore i7-9750H

Acer Nitro 5 AN515-54-51M5Core i5-9300H

Microsoft Surface Book 3Core i7-1065G7

1,881

Multi threaded Single threaded

1,360

1,3 0 4

1,263

1,156

1,0 88

766

693

200

195

191

183

181

178

17 7

173

much as the Nitro, while squeezing past a

series of gaming systems that cost

hundreds more. It also blows away the

Nitro 5 we reviewed last year, which was

powered by a quad-core Intel Core

i5-9300H chip. The Nitro 5’s processor

won’t be a bottleneck as far as graphics go,

and it’ll boost the performance of games

that do depend more on the CPU, such as

Minecraft and 2013’s Tomb Raider reboot.

CINEBENCH

Next, we spun up Cinebench, a test that

involves rendering a 3D image in real time.