PC World - USA (2020-12)

DECEMBER 2020 PCWorld 69

With maxed-out graphics settings, the Nitro 5
manages to get awfully close (or close enough) to
60fps while running Rise of the Tomb Raider.

For Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, the Nitro 5

and its GTX 1650 GPU sneak into the 70fps range.

The Ryzen-powered Nitro 5 sneaks past 70

fps for this more CPU-centric title, a tiny bit

faster than last year’s Nitro 5.

Once again, we re-did the benchmark

with CoolBoost on and the High

Performance power plan engaged, but this

time we barely saw a budge in frame rate.

DESTINY 2

We don’t have formal rankings for Destiny 2

given that it lacks a benchmarking mode,

but having spent dozens of hours running

Nightfalls, grinding Lost Sectors and toiling

away at a solo Prophecy dungeon clear (I’m

stuck at the second boss encounter) using

the Nitro 5, I thought I’d detail my

experience.

Middle-earth: Shadow of

Mordor: Ultra Preset

Frames per second

Acer Predator Triton 500Core i7-10750H

Acer Predator Triton 500Core i7-8750H

Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 Ryzen 9 4900HS

HP Pavilion Gaming LaptopCore i7-9750H

Microsoft Surface Book 3Core i7-1065G7

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

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

Lenovo Yoga C940 15Core i7-9750H

LONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE

183.96

81.18

113.4

69.8

120.12

71.27

105.8

61.32

Rise of the Tomb Raider:

Very High Preset, DirectX 11

Frames per second

Acer Predator Triton 500Core i7-10750H

Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 Ryzen 9 4900HS

Acer Predator Triton 500Core i7-8750H

HP Pavilion Gaming LaptopCore i7-9750H

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

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

Lenovo Yoga C940 15Core i7-9750H

Microsoft Surface Book 3Core i7-1065G7

LONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE

125.86

56.56

85.3

53.2

88.2

54.91

64.94

48.88

well within the margin of error. Looking at the
chart, you’d need to pay hundreds more for a
laptop equipped with an RTX 2060 or better
GPU to see frame rates substantially north of
60 fps. That Acer Predator Triton 500 at the
top of the chart, with its 125-plus fps score,
would cost a cool $2,600 to take home.
As promised, we re-ran the Rise of the
Tomb Raider benchmark with the NitroSense
“CoolBoost” mode switched on and the
High Performance power plan enabled. The
improvement was negligible: 56.97 fps
versus 54.91 fps.

MIDDLE-EARTH: SHADOW
OF MORDOR
The results are similar for Shadow of Mordor.