did we just look at a nitro 5. we did adam we just looked at a natural five it's on
our channel pcworld.com check it out this is also a nitro5 but this is the 17-inch
nitro 5. 17.3 yes bigger is better as you know in a laptop it's a it's the bigger sibling of the
nitro 5. we're going to unbox it we're going to do a quick couple benchmarks probably if we have time
this is not a review this is not a review internet we're just going to get you a couple
of results just to wet your appetite because you want to know but this is primarily just
to show off the laptop with an inbox a couple things we're going to pull the laptop out first
and the box this is the power brick because you want to see the power brick fairly slim
uh this is always the tell this is a 180 huh 180 watt power brick for the 17.3 inch gaming laptop
this is important too this laptop will take a standard 2.5 inch storage device and what's
nice is they give you the stuff so this is in the box don't throw it away keep that if one day you
decide to add a hard drive or an ssd in 2.5 inch you open it up you use that you install it
nice touch i love when companies do that they're thinking about you because if they had the bay but
they didn't give you the stuff then you've got to track it down so again acer nitro
5 17.3 inch panel you know sort of a standard 69 aspect ratio panel 1080p the nitro 5 you
just saw had the optional higher resolution panel 1440p this is a 1080p panel but 360 hertz so it's
definitely tuned for gamers because you really want that high refresh rate we're getting that
360 hertz 1080p 16.9 yeah i get it but you know if you want high refresh rate you're going to
get it uh the keyboard four zone not per key but it looks pretty good so you can do a four
key zone on the keyboard the end button gets you your control panel so inside this laptop is uh
everybody's favorite cpu amd ryzen 7 50 800 h that is of course a 45 watt 8 core cpu awesome chip
for graphics though because you really need to screw graphics for a gaming laptop nvidia
geforce rtx 3080 laptop gpu 8 gig configuration i have seen lots of 16 gig geforce gpus this is the
eight gig version and of course besides less ram you also uh the the tgp the total graphics power
is very important these days acer does tell us that it is a a 95 watt 30 80 tgp um of course
what you're going to want to know is like is it really worth it to pay sort of that extra money
for a 30 80 over a 30 70 which is very similar in thermals to a 95 watt 38 especially with
you know eight gigs we'll find out when we do a couple of benchmarks let's walk through the ports
on this side full size hdmi usb 3.2 i think it's on this side it's a gen 1 so probably 5 gig usbc
i believe on this side it is up to full 10 gigs
killer ethernet gigabit two usb 32 10 gig ports so gen 2 a analog headset jack and of course on the
bottom let's just show you the venting because everybody likes to see the vents not super
aggressive a lot of the vents on here are mostly for aggressive look you get the vents right here
your exhaust is here i'm gonna imagine they're venting it like this intake exhaust not a lot of
intake here but um typically that is by design very nice uh power plugs into the back oh yeah
that is nice that is very nice instead of plugging into the left and right side and getting in the
way of your mousing let's give you the weight uh about 5.95 pounds that power brick probably
about a pound pound and a half not too bad so just under six pounds for this price at 20.99
um that comes with 16 gigs of ram ddr4 3200 up to 32 gigs uh typically these laptops have sodiums
i wouldn't worry about having to being able to not access the memory you should be able to access it
but let's find out we're going to run a couple quick benchmarks come back to it i kind of want
to see how it compares to 3070 and some of those other 3080s at higher tgps it's a little tough
because of the different cpus but stay tuned hey so we're back i just finished running a few
quick tests on the acer nitro 17.3 inch of course remember this is the bigger cousin of the smaller
nitro 5 30 80 95 watt tgp gpu in there i'm kind of curious because if you go into pc world's channel
you can see there's a nitro 5 wn box that's a 30 70 pretty close in wattage to this part i'm kind
of wondering if they lose a lot of performance going from a 30 80 to the 30 70 especially because
it's a 30 88 gig it's not a 30 80 16 gig version like you see on some of the higher end laptops
so we ran a few numbers this is not the review this is not the review we are just giving you a
feel for where this laptop is after pulling it out of the box we're going to kick this off on the cpu
side though everything there is what you expect it's an 8 core ryzen 7 5800h it's an awesome cpu
you can see basically the performance is very similar to the other nitro with the same cpu
and against that very thin asus flow x13 that's a that's a ultra thin high-end premium eight core
ryzen based laptop it's actually just as fast as this laptop even though that is a ryzen nine
this is a ryzen seven that's because this is a bigger thicker laptop with better cooling but
basically the performance is everything you expect of verizon 758 5800 h this is cinebench uh r20
single threaded though previously we were looking at a test where you test all of the cpu cores
in a laptop a lot of people don't use all of the cpu cores in a laptop so this only looks at the
performance of a single thread which is probably closer to what most people will see in a lot of
older games a lot of games a lot of applications even photoshop very rarely uses all of those cores
here we see actually right where should be it's basically dead even with the the ryzen 7 50
800 h and the nitro 5 15.6 inch this is the 17.3 inch basically the same score and i do want to
note earlier this laptop beat up on that asus flow x13 a little tiny laptop you see without ryzen 9
without having to deal with the heat of all eight cores now using a single core and that flow x13 it
is truly a ryzen nine and beats up on this ryzen seven so that is worth it cpu everything you
expect the big question where is that geforce rtx 3080 laptop eight gig at a 95 watt tgp
uh first result very quickly it's just time spy this is 3d mark it's a test that basically ignores
cpu performance so you can really compare it across the different laptops here
all of the laptops you see here are fairly current which gives you a good idea of laptops out there
in the competitive landscape also i also use just the graphic score which ignores the cpu totally so
you're essentially looking at something that is a 99 gpu performance test i colored in the bar
a little darker green for the nitro 5 17 inch and you can see actually i'm kind of surprised
it's not bad versus the the nitro 5 with the 30 70 because i was kind of thinking well maybe just
go for the 37 30 70 what's the point of the 3080 you're seeing maybe 14 15 more performance out
of this 30 80 which doesn't sound like a lot but that's actually very similar to other 3080 sort
of similarly cooled gpu so looking at at this list you're seeing a 105 watt 30 80s 16 gig car
16 gig gpus slightly faster than his laptop so uh i guess i would say the 3080 in here actually
kind of surprised me because it is a decent bump over the 30 70 and the nitro 5
15 inch but i'm not so sure uh the other laptops would impress me so i guess it's this weird thing
like this is not a bad place for it to be maybe 15 percent more performance and very much matches
laptops that are more expensive than it with a lower tgp gpus as well so not bad of course
with a 3080 when you're looking at a 150 watt 165 watt tgp units those things really run away from
everything and those two longer bars are the very high clock gpus including the flow x13 here which
uses an external 3080 so you can see definitely uh 3080 at 150 to 165 watts gets you a lot of juice
this isn't bad not bad and it is better than a 30-70 but you have to decide what works for you
i also did want to look a little bit at sort of the content creation because some people may want
to buy a laptop like this to do something other than gaming 3080 is going to give you great gaming
no matter what there is it may not be quite as fast as a really high wattage 3080 but let's also
look at what you're getting out of v-ray so v-ray has a cool test it lets you render on the gpu they
say it's cuda but it really is the v-ray render using the gpu compute and then they also use it
using the ray tracing cores you can see here the nitro 5 17-inch is again you know a decent bump
over a 30 70. so it very much comes down to what you're getting out of your money i would say your
question of course you're going to say well maybe i'll just go with the 30-70 because it doesn't
look like i get a lot i think that's a that's a fair assessment um 13 to 14 more performance
probably not worth it to some people but when you're looking also at um probably a couple
hundred bucks there's other things between this and the other nitro it's about a 300 difference
it might be worth it to get the larger screen you know but that's really up to you so overall not
bad i would say the 30 80 at 95 watts eight gigs is not that bad um at the same time it's not as
great as 150 watt unit i also want to mention the battery in here i didn't mention earlier
it's a little undersized remember there is a bay in here for a 2.5 inch ssd or hard drive
that means less space for the battery this is a 57 watt hour battery i've seen some 2.6 pound laptops
with the same size battery so it's not exactly a big battery and you're pushing all this hardware
not going to be great although it's surprisingly better than what you expect uh acer actually
says expect maybe eight hours of video run time on this that's just watching videos if you're
gonna run a game if you're gonna do something heavy duty i would say don't expect more than an
hour and a half to be honest so your mileage will vary so last thing i want to repeat again price
of the acer nitro 5 with the 8 gig 3080 ryzen 750 800h one terabyte ssd 360 hertz 1080p panel 2099
and it will be available from it will be available from acer.com newegg amazon and walmart