Acer Nitro 5 AN515-56: Quick Review

Acer’s Nitro series of gaming machines got a next-generation beast with an 11th-generation CPU. The 2021 Nitro 5 gaming laptop looks identical to its predecessor with few upgrades. Let have a look...

The gaming machine has a 15.6-inch FHD IPS display with thin bezels on both sides, though the upper and the bottom has a little thick bezel for holding the webcam on top and Acer logo on the bottom. The screen is combined with Acer’s ComfyView LED-backlit TFT and a refresh rate of 144 Hz and an overdrive response of 3 ms so that the visual experience of your game is lag-free, fluid, and seamless. The screen produces vivid colours. The blacks are deep

Being a gaming beast, it has a powerful cooling system combined with an added boost to chill out with dual fans and the quad exhaust design. CoolBoost Technology increases fan speed by 10% and CPU/GPU cooling by 9%. You can control the fan speed NitroSense, Auto mode automatically manages the speed however you can keep it for max or customize as per your choice.

Take command of the inner workings of the laptop via the dedicated NitroSense Key to monitor fan speed, thermal temperature, lighting and more.

The gaming beast has a 4-zone RGB keyboard, you can give it a taste that you love. WASD and arrow keys are also highlighted for easy visibility. The gaming machine also has great connectivity features including Killer Ethernet E26001 and Wi-Fi 6 solutions.

Conclusion

I am using the laptop for the last few days, and I played a few games, did some video rendering and did other day-to-day office tasks. The Acer Nitro 5 laptop is equipped with an 11th Gen Intel Core i5 processor along with 4 GB of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650, 8 GB DDR4 RAM and M.2 PCle SSDs for storage.

The combination makes it a powerful machine that can handle most of the popular games available. I installed NFS, Thief, Shadow of Mordor, etc. to experience its gaming capabilities. And added MS office, Adobe suite etc. to check its productivity performance.

Till now, I have not seen any visible performance lag. I played games, along with managing day-to-day tasks using MS office and Adobe suite. To load it heavily, I run Thief and Shadow of Mordor games along with Adobe Premiere Pro, MS word, Excel, and Chrome browser simultaneously.

There was neither any performance lag with games nor with other daily productivity applications. The beast was able to handle all of them smoothly.