PC World - USA (2019-10)

54 PCWorld OCTOBER 2019

REVIEWS ACER NITRO^5

The Nitro 5’s near-seven hours of battery life is among the best we’ve seen

for a gaming laptop.

Because the Nitro 5 throttles aggressively under heavy CPU loads—and

has a weaker CPU overall—it can’t keep up with other budget gaming

laptops on video encoding.

and Acer’s Predator

Helios 300). Acer’s

step-up Nitro 7 did have

a sizable lead

of 6 fps in this test,

possibly because of its

Core i7’s higher clock

speeds.

Depending on the

game, a better CPU

may not translate to

better frame rates, as

we can see in Middle-

earth: Shadow of

Mordor. The Nitro 5

and Nitro 7 were

neck-and-neck in this

test, though GTX

1060-based laptops

maintained a clear

lead.

The results were

practically identical in

the mostly-GPU test of

3DMark’s FireStrike

Extreme, with the

same rankings and

even similar

proportions to the

Shadow of Mordor

benchmark.

In tests of the CPU

alone, the Nitro 5 didn’t

do nearly as well. This is

Lenovo Legion Y7000P(Core i7-8750H)

Dell G7 15 7588

(Core i7-8750H)

Acer Predator Helios 300

(Core i7-8750H)

Acer Nitro 7

(Core i7-9750H)

Dell G3 15 3579 (Core i5-8265U)

Acer Nitro 5 AN517-51-56YW (Core i5-9300H)

Acer Nitro 5(Core i5-8300H)

HandBrake Total Encode Time

(Seconds)

SHORTER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE

1,865

2,607

2,037

3,119

2,035

2,725

2,220

Acer Nitro 5 AN517-51-56YW (Core i5-9300H)

Lenovo Legion Y7000P(Core i7-8750H)

Dell G7 15 7588

(Core i7-8750H)

Dell G3 15 3579

(Core i5-8265U)

Acer Nitro 7

(Core i7-9750H)

Acer Nitro 5(Core i5-8300H)

Acer Predator Helios 300(Core i7-8750H)

Tears of Steel 4K

(250-260 nits)

LONGER BARS INDICATE BETTER PERFORMANCE

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