Acer Nitro 5 Gaming Laptop/12th Gen Intel Core i7-12700H Processor 14core/15.6"(39.6cm) FHD 144Hz Display(16GB/512GB SSD/1TB HDD/RTX 3050Ti Graphics/Windows 11/RGB),AN515-58 + Xbox Game Pass Ultimate

Temps:Like other gaming laptops such as the lenovo LOQ's rtx 4060, the nitro 5's GPU can hit 75 to 80 degrees. However, even a desktop rtx 3070ti and rtx 3070 hits these temps, so there's nothing to worry about. The CPU hits 90 like all other gaming laptops. That is if you do intensive workloads. Now, there's some obvious ways to lower temps, like raising the laptop up from the back and that alone can yield a 4-5 degree drop to the GPU and a bit to the CPU. Due to intel removing undervolting on all H and U series CPU's, you can't lower temps that way anymore. And AMD has done the same. So, temps are in line with other gaming laptops. The reason rtx 4050 laptops and rtx 4060 laptops see such low temps is people review the helios or predator lineup's which feature better cooling for parts that use less power and have lower GPU performance. Let those laptops actually cool a 150w GPU and the temps will only be slightly lower than the nitro 5's. You can undervolt the 3070ti to lower temps and OC the vram to makeup for any perf loss incurred via undervolting.Performance GPU:The rtx 3070ti 150w matches the 140w rtx 4070 in performance. So essentially for 100k you get a 4070. The 3070ti itself is a good 15 to 20% faster than the 4060. So its well equipped to handle 1440p. And in most games it can do 1440p ultra settings without upscaling, except the most unoptimized games like starfield, cyberpunk, etc. But those games are infamous for bringing down even an rtx 4090. Games like forza horizon 5, doom eternal, elden ring, valheim, spiderman, etc. can do 1440p ultra settings 60fps without even fully using the GPU. Since the 3070ti mobile shares the same specs as the 3070 desktop, it performs similar to it and thus will generally be within 5-10% of the desktop variant. And the 8gb of vram will be enough for 1080p and 1440p for the most part. 6gb is however pretty much dead for 1440p and just hanging on by a thread for 1080p.Performance CPU:The i7 12650h has 6 P cores and 4 E cores making for 16 threads vs the i7 12700h's 6 P cores and 8 E cores for a total of 20 threads. As a result the i7 12650h is only slightly weaker than the i7 12700h in multi core and equal to it for single core. Compared to ryzen 7840HS, its about 20% weaker, but roughly equal to a ryzen 5 7640HS. And the i7 12650h is within 5-10% of a i5 13500HX. So this i7 will beat 99% of all 13th gen i5's. You can use throttlestop to limit the temp to 90 or lower if you wish. And of course, you can use it to manipulate clockspeeds to further lower temps.RAM:DDR4 3200mhz ram is enough for years to come. You can easily and cheaply add in more ram and be good to go. DDR4 3200mhz is not going to be much worse than DDR5 4800mhz ram, while being cheaper.Display:This is the best display you're going to get at this price point. Only the LOQ will offer the same 1440p display, but again, it'll cost more when all other specs are equalized. The display of the nitro 5 has a 100% srgb coverage and about 300 nits or slightly higher brightness. Its got 3ms response time and certainly feels responsive. The advantage of a 1440p display is when you use upscaling it will not look as blurry as with a lower resolution option since the display's PPI is quite a bit higher.Upgradability:The nitro 5 has 3 storage slots, 2 x Gen 4 PCIE NVME ssd slots and a 2.5' drive bay. Buying 3 x 8tb ssd's you can add int 24tb of ssd storage. With a 2.5' bay you can get an expansion device to turn the one 2.5' bay into 2 x m.2 sata slots, for potentially 4 storage slots. Thats already more than most gaming laptops offer. The 2 ram slots can house 64gb of ram. The nitro 5 also has replaceable battery and wifi card. Its relatively easy to open it up but make sure to be gentle with the rear section.Battery life:Sadly the intel CPU + QHD display does not do favors for the 57whr battery. If you set the display to around 230 nits and all power saver features on, you can expect about 3-4 hours of battery life. This would've increased by 2-3 more hours had acer sold the FHD + 6800h version. However, thats still more than enough for some casual use on the bed, taking it out briefly on the train to watch a movie or something. A good thing is the nitro 5 can be charged via a USB c charger of upto 135w capacity. So you can get one of those to take with you on travels instead of the massive 280w brick.Features:You get other than Frame Generation, all the other nvidia features. And you can also use FSR 3 which would provide similar results to FG. The nitro 5 has a MUX switch which is quite handy for high FPS titles.Price to performance:There is a strange trend where people simply go for software features and are willing to pay more for less hoping software like frame generation catches on. Acer is giving you a proper, desktop xx70 class GPU for just 100k. No other previous desktop class xx70 class GPU was ever given at 100k. And now people want to pay more for an rtx 4060 which itself is based on the same die (AD107) as the rtx 4050? Its literally just a 4050ti at best being called a 4060 and itself is barely 10-15% faster than a 3060. Infact, the rtx 3060 launched at around 90k for the 95w variant and quickly dropped to 80-90k for the 85 to 95w variants which still beat a 115w rtx 2060 while costing quite a bit lower than it. The rtx 4060 doesn't even give you a 85w to 95w variant for less than 90k, despite being 6 months old now. Do you really want to pay 100k+ for a literal entry level part? Because thats what the rtx 4050 and rtx 4060 are. Nvidia is using software to jack up their prices.Edit:After experimenting, you can access the advanced bios (no need to flash bios, just boot into advanced bios via flashdrive) which will let you perform the AC loadline + IMON tweaks. The AC loadline tweak sort of undervolt's the i7 and lets it hit higher clocks during full load. The IMON tweak under reports CPU power meaning CPU and GPU can pull more power when both are fully loaded. You can repaste the laptop to lower temperatures and raise the laptop. You can undervolt the GPU too. All this lets the nitro 5 trade blows in terms of performance with the best 3070ti laptops which cost a lot more money. It also widens its lead over the 4060. I have done this and found my 3070ti drawing 150w + i7 12650h drawing ~50-60w for a total of 200-210w while playing CP2077 and with max fans, the GPU stayed at 77-78 and CPU at 80-90 degrees. If you do repaste, use genuine PTM7950 as its your best option.You can also potentially add in a larger 90whr battery from the acer predator/helios. It SHOULD be compatible. I haven't tested it yet, but the nitro 5 does seem to have the space necessary for it. You just have to remove the hdd caddy. Potentially you could spend a couple thousand rupees and extend battery life to ~5-6hr's.

For the price of which it's providing a powerful processor and a powerful graphic card that too, 3070 Ti. It's a power pack device. The lack here is system heating issue and unstable Nitrosense.Over all you can do app building, coding, Video-photo rendering, Gaming at high FPS high res.

Great laptop. 10/10 features for the price. 100% value for money. But the charger gets loose after a while and finding a replacement is such a pain. It is not available anywhere.

Performance wise, this thing is absolutely the best you could buy for the price. Even better than 4060 laptops considering how less implemented framegen is currently. Thermals are much better than I expected from all the negative reviews but it never crossed 80C even under continuous full load for several hours. Downsides are the battery life, hinge wobble and very mild backlight bleed on screen which is visible only when the entire display is a black screen which is again quite rare. Other than that the display is just straight up gorgeous and has amazing colour balance. Keep in mind that it's meant to be more of a portable desktop than a sturdy built laptop that you can carry along with you everyday. It's definitely a bit flimsy to be carrying around a lot. However, as a desktop replacement, it's amazing and an equivalent performance desktop will cost way more than this if the cost of a good display is included. All in all, after a month of use, I'm quite satisfied.P.S. Add another 16gb cl 22 ram without which you'll face Cpu bottleneck and stuttering in games.

I had my doubts at first because this is the only laptop with 3070ti at 1.10 lakh, rest are above 1.50 lakh at the time of writing this review. Didn't believe it until I played some games, got Resident Evil 4 remake on 1440p max settings with ray tracing on high, getting well around 70+ fps. Although CPU is not the best of course, but you're not getting anything better, not even close to this price, at least for now.Edit: I really hate whenever this happens, I bought it like 4 months ago for 1.10 lakh now the price is dropped to 95000. Pathetic.

Bought it for 93k (99k price & 7k disocunt on SBI card) from Amazon during sale. Overall performance is good. Con - Heating issue, after 3hrs of gaming with cooling pad the CPU touched 100 degree. Apart from that the XMP profile in bios is not available. Games like Warzone, Apex, Valorant are working just fine in highest settings. For ~1lakh price range this is a good choice.