Acer Nitro 5 AN515-45-R36S
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Average of 5 scores (from 8 reviews)
Reviews for the Acer Nitro 5 AN515-45-R36S
Source: Good Gear Guide

With the 15.6-inch Acer Nitro 5 model we reviewed earlier this year, Acer pushed its venerable Nitro 5 budget gaming laptop line into midrange gaming laptop territory by outfitting the $1,700 configuration with RTX 3070 graphics and a QHD panel. With this Nitro 5 (model AN517-41-R3NX), Acer further extends into the midrange category by bumping up the graphics to an RTX 3080 GPU and stretching the display to 17.3 inches — albeit with a lower, 1080p resolution. These upgrades push the price north of US$2,000. The bulky, plastic chassis doesn't scream premium gaming laptop or even utter with much confidence midrange gaming laptop. If your goal is to buy the most power and the biggest display for your gaming dollars, then the 17.3-inch Nitro, which is powered by GeForce RTX 3080 graphics and AMD's stellar Ryzen 7 5800H CPU, is worthy of your attention. If you prize performance over design, then the big-screen Acer Nitro 5 and its RTX 3080 graphics offers an appealing value proposition.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 11/08/2021
Rating: Total score: 70%
Source: Ultrabook Review

I was surprised Acer put an RTX 3080 in the Nitro 5, but having spent time with this laptop, I'm impressed with the overall balance of performance, thermals, and noise levels this unit delivers. It's not as fast in games and demanding loads as the higher-tier 3080 units out there, but it's more affordable and just friendlier to use, thanks to those cooler components and exterior surfaces, and the barely audible fans. This Nitro 5 is still a budget laptop nonetheless, with the compromises you should expect in this sort of an affordable product, that's why I'd expect the 3060 variants to still be the most competitive among the multitude of available configurations.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 03/09/2021
Rating: Total score: 85%
Source: Ultrabook Review

I was surprised Acer put an RTX 3080 in the Nitro 5, but having spent time with this laptop, I'm impressed with the overall balance of performance, thermals, and noise levels this unit delivers. It's not as fast in games and demanding loads as the higher-tier 3080 units out there, but it's more affordable and just friendlier to use, thanks to those cooler components and exterior surfaces, and the barely audible fans. This Nitro 5 is still a budget laptop nonetheless, with the compromises you should expect in this sort of an affordable product, that's why I'd expect the 3060 variants to still be the most competitive among the multitude of available configurations.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 03/09/2021
Rating: Total score: 85%
Foreign Reviews
Source: Game IT

Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 07/03/2021
Source: Profesional Review

Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 06/16/2021
Rating: Total score: 90% performance: 93% display: 91% workmanship: 90%
Source: Game IT

Positive: Premium design; solid workmanship; good price; great cooling system; metal case.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 07/03/2021
Source: Notebook.cz

Positive: High performance; fast SSD storage; compact size; light weight. Negative: Mediocre speakers; weak connectivity; poor display.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 08/25/2021
Source: TechTimes VN

Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 06/15/2021
Rating: Total score: 87% performance: 100% display: 85% mobility: 75% workmanship: 80% ergonomy: 91%
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop GPU: High-End laptop graphics card based on the Ampere GA104 chip. At the time of the launch in early 2021, the 3080 is the fastest laptop graphics card on the market.
These graphics cards are able to play the latest and most demanding games in high resolutions and full detail settings with enabled Anti-Aliasing.
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
R7 5800H: An impressive desktop-grade octa-core APU with SMT-enabled Zen 3 cores running at 3.2 to 4.4 GHz and a Vega series graphics adapter with 8 CUs clocked at up to 2,000 MHz.» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
15.60":
15-16 inch is a standard display size for laptops and offers the biggest variety of products.
» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.2.3 kg:
Usually subnotebooks, ultrabooks and quite lightweight laptops with 12-16 inch display-diagonal weigh as much.
Acer: The company was founded under the name of Multitech in Taiwan in 1976 and renamed to Acer or Acer Group in 1987. The product range includes, for example, laptops, tablets, smartphones, desktops, monitors and televisions. Gateway Inc. and Packard Bell also belong to the Group and sell their own laptops.
While Acer still had the third largest global market share in the notebook segment in 2008, it ranked 6th in 2016 with a market share of 6% after they had continuously lost market shares.
There are dozens of Acer laptop reviews per month, the ratings are average (as of 2016). Gateway, which has an own laptop line-up, has also belonged to the Acer Group since 2007.
83.4%: This rating should be considered to be average. This is because the proportion of notebooks which have a higher rating is approximately equal to the proportion which have a lower rating.
» Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.