Fastest RTX 4050 Gaming Laptop for $600! Acer Nitro 5 Review

Acer’s Nitro 5 is the fastest gaming laptop with full powered RTX 4050 graphics for $600 USD when on sale, but there are some problems you need to know about!

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Acer Nitro 5 (2023) Review Timestamps:
0:00 Best RTX 4050 Laptop Under $1000?
0:11 Laptop Specs
0:20 Pricing vs Competitors
1:01 3 Games Compared
2:34 Why Low GPU Power Limit?
2:58 Nitro 5 Worth It?
3:19 Problems With This Laptop!
3:26 Screen (Colors/Brightness/Response Time)
4:50 More Money For Better Screen?
5:02 CPU Performance
6:03 Battery Life
6:21 Content Creation & 3DMark
6:33 Acer Nitro 16 & 17 New Designs
6:51 2023 Nitro 5 - Finally a 4050 Priced Well
7:13 Everything Else (Thermals/Ports/Design etc)
7:27 DLSS 3 Frame Generation & Ray Tracing Performance

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[sh-bmis]

Glad to see more Budget laptops features on the channel....keep bringing them more often

[the-aviator]

Acer almost never disappoints with their nitro 5 lineup! It's a great budget gaming laptop

[viniciusfreitas]

On my country, Acer has launched the 16' one with a few changes on the specs, it's a 120w 4050, a 100% sRGB screen with the same resolution from the model you've talked about in the video with a higher refresh rate, 165hz, and an i7 13700H.
I want to buy a laptop with a 3060, but, a 4050 will get more longevity in the long term, I think, and even though is expensive, it might be more worthwhile.
A brazilian youtuber had mentioned you on some videos and I came to your channel.

[lostskull]

I wonder how cool this laptop runs considering the wattage limit

[edigarr]

Would have been nice to see the gpu temps.

[joelconolly]

Acer Nitros are few of the best budget machine to release. It's better in most features for it's price, but not more. At least the updated design keeps the components cooler. Overall a great budget device. Definitely get it if you want an affordable gaming machine.

[mohit]

Good one, would also like to see a comparison between 4050 and 4060 to decide if 4060 is worth $200 or so more especially for the extra 2gb vram

[HarvestedMoonEclipsed]

Just bought this after a month of spec research price/performance. it's my first actual gaming laptop. Console player for years. My favs are open world and zombie survival. Long live Oblivion I can't wait to play it on Max. Just got the Tomb Raider Definitive Survival Trilogy and can't wait to play that. 'm glad to be part of the club awesome vids Jarrod! 😎

[Ssynth]

Bought it 2 days ago its better than i thought

[unionofslavstanrepublics]

An actually decent wattage RTX 4050!

Definitely don't buy the cyborg 15 or GF63, buy this!

[JuanJimenez.]

I just got this used for 160. I was told it had a 3050, turns out it had one of these GPUs. I got blessed

[nokshidongotdeleted]

I have been tempted to get the acer nitro 5 many times. But, it's display is what holds me back everytime. Hence, I have to go with a higher budget laptop like Legion or so.

[michael]

I'm quite supriced it's so much faster than 2021 version with rtx 3060 80-95w. I know rtx 3060 need to be over 100w to beat 4050(if both same power lvl), but that diffrence is still large.

[chilledbit]

Are the 4050-70 GPUs worth considering purely for frame gen?

[DiversityGameplay]

So glad to see a video of Nitro series.

[daksh]

Please review Acer's new predator 16 and 18 with 4070 and 4080, they are packing a 175 W GPU !

[MuhammadArshad]

Awesome review as always! I wonder if you'll be reviewing the tuf a15 2023 with 7940hs?since last year's was high up your recommendation, would be great to see a review of this. Also there isn't any Phoenix Point APUs review yet on your channel this might be a good contender!

[jcmolero]

I've been looking and I saw a Nitro 5 similar but processor is i7-12650H and 4060 of graphics for 899 bucks, is it a better deal, right? (AN515-58-78BT)

[StormClaws]

The sub theme of this video is MSI GF63 being the punching bag

[tigeralpha]

Hi Jarrod what's your take on the cyborg 15 with 4060 and sword 15 with the 3060, how will they compare to the 4050 considering they are about $1000, as you showed in your video that after 85w tdp the performance remains the same, also what is your take on the aorus with 4060 it just about $1100 will you review that?