Acer Aspire 5 A517 Series

Acer Aspire 5 A517-52G-79Z5

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Acer Aspire 5 A517-58M

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Acer Aspire 5 (A517-58M) review – Budget Beast with Record-Breaking Performance for the Core i7-1355U
Source: Laptop Media
Well, well, the not-so-expensive Acer Aspire 5 (A517-58M) hides some tricks up in its sleeve like the impressively high CPU clocks during load. The optional Core i7-1355U (which is the top chip option for the series) can sustain 3.09 GHz / 2.18 GHz for the P and E cores when the processor is loaded at max for a long time. This is a tremendously good result, and don’t forget the fact that we are talking about a budget device. That’s one of the advantages of a big laptop – there is more free space around the thermal solution which is beneficial for the whole cooling. The air inlet keyboard design and the lifting hinge of the lid also help in this situation. Speaking of which, when the processor is heavily loaded, the keyboard doesn’t become too hot to the touch and the single cooling fan isn’t too noisy.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 03/30/2024

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Modern games should be playable with these graphics cards at low settings and resolutions. Casual gamers may be happy with these cards.

NVIDIA GeForce MX350: Successor of the MX250 and most likely a renamed GeForce GTX 1050 based on the Pascal GP107 chip with 640 shaders and a 64 Bit memory bus for GDDR5.

Intel Iris Xe G7 96EUs: Integrated graphics card in Intel Tiger Lake G4 SoCs based on the new Gen. 12 architecture with 96 EUs (Execution Units / Shader Cluster). The clock rate depends on the processor model. The Tiger Lake chips are produced in the modern 10nm+ process at Intel.

» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.

Intel Tiger Lake:

i7-1165G7: An upper mid-range, quad-core processor of Tiger Lake product family. The i7 is designed for use in ultra-light (yet actively cooled) laptops; it is manufactured on Intel's third-gen 10 nm process marketed as SuperFin. The CPU cores run at 2.8 GHz (base clock speed @ 28 W TDP) to 4.7 GHz (single-core Boost frequency). This i7 features the 96 EU Intel Iris Xe G7 iGPU; it was the second-fastest CPU of TGL-UP3 line-up when Intel initially launched the series in 2020.

Intel Raptor Lake-U:

i7-1355U: Alder Lake based mobile CPU with 2 performance cores and 8 efficient cores. The performance cores offer hyper threading, leading to 12 threads that can be processed. The CPU clocks from 1.2 to 5 GHz. The TDP is specified at 15 Watt.

» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.

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82.7%: This rating is slightly above average, there are somewhat more devices with worse ratings. However, clear purchase recommendations look different.

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