Acer Nitro 5 15 (2020) Review

We tested the 15.6″ Acer Nitro 5 laptop (model AN515-44-R078) with a 1080p 60Hz screen, an AMD Ryzen 5 4600H CPU, an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Ti GPU, 8GB of RAM, and 256GB of storage. The CPU, GPU, memory, storage, and screen are configurable; the available options are in the table below. However, most vendors, including Acer directly, sell this laptop with a pre-determined configuration instead of letting customers choose the parts individually, so it may be hard to find the exact configuration you want.

There are variants of the Nitro 5 with Intel 9th Gen processors and either an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 or RTX 2060. However, they seem to be using a different chassis and port layout, so to avoid confusion, we consider them entirely different models.

Screen

• 15.6″ IPS 1920 x 1080 60Hz
• 15.6″ IPS 1920 x 1080 120Hz
• 15.6″ IPS 1920 x 1080 144Hz

CPU

• Intel Core i5-10300H (4 cores/8 threads, up to 4.50GHz)
• Intel Core i7-10750H (6 cores/12 threads, up to 5.00GHz)
• AMD Ryzen 5 4600H (6 cores/12 threads, up to 4.0GHz)
• AMD Ryzen 7 4800H (8 cores/16 threads, up to 4.2GHz)

GPU

• NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 4GB
• NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Ti 4GB

Memory

• 8GB DDR4 3200MHz
• 12GB DDR 3200MHz
• 16GB DDR4 3200MHz

Storage

• 256GB SSD
• 512GB SSD

Our display and performance results are only valid for the configuration that we tested. If you come across a different configuration option not listed above, or you have a similar Acer Nitro 5 that doesn’t correspond to our review, let us know, and we’ll update it. Some tests, like black uniformity and color accuracy, may vary between individual units.

You can see our unit’s label here.