Test Acer Nitro 5 with Intel Core i7-11800H processor and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 card. The premiere of Tiger Lake-H systems
In May, Intel unveiled 11th-generation Intel Tiger Lake-H mobile processors that use Willow Cove architecture and 10nm SuperFin technology. They are the first Intel "H" series processors to offer new architecture and lithography simultaneously and more than four cores. Intel Core i7-11800H - which is part of the Acer Nitro 5 notebook in the latest revision. This is by far the most refined and polished version of the popular laptop I have dealt with. The equipment offers a well-known design, but at the same time much higher efficiency. Inside, we will also find the latest NVIDIA Ampere chip, and not all the positive changes that have occurred inside.
Acer Nitro 5 is one of the most popular gaming laptops world. The producer himself praises the sale very much, mainly due to the good price-to-offer ratio. In the case of this year's version of Nitro 5, the situation is a bit different, because much more efficient components have started to be inserted into the laptop. The model I received for testing is the highest configuration based on Intel Tiger Lake-H processors. It has an 8-core and 16-thread Intel Core i7-11800H chip, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU graphics card, 32 GB RAM, 4 TB data storage and a great WQHD screen with 165 Hz refresh rate. In many respects, it is therefore a huge leap in performance compared to the previous versions of the Acer Nitro 5. But will noticeably stronger components cope with a housing that was not originally adapted to them?
Acer Nitro 5 in its latest version has an 8-core and 16-thread Intel Core i7-11800H processor. It is a debuting unit, belonging to the 11th generation of Tiger Lake-H, using the Willow Cove architecture and the 10nm SuperFin process. There is also an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU with TGP 100 W.
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The Acer Nitro 5 comes with a dedicated NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. The note "Laptop GPU" is not accidental - from now on, it is part of the official naming of laptop cards, thanks to which they are to be more clearly distinguished from their desktop "counterparts". In the case of the Ampere architecture, we go back to the times when mobile and desktop systems were something completely different. The large GA102 core with a very high TGP turned out to be a breakneck task for notebooks, so in portable computers we will see cards based at most on the GA104 core. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU is the second and most efficient graphics card in notebooks. However, it has been slightly modified compared to the desktop version. We have a truncated Ampere GA104 core with 5120 CUDA cores and 8 GB of GDDR6 VRAM on a 256-bit memory bus. For comparison, the GeForce RTX 3070 in desktops uses the GA104 core with 5,888 CUDA cores. From now on, NVIDIA will no longer distinguish between Max-Q and Max-P models this is another problem. (this was usually the internal term for normal cards in full TGP laptops). Instead, we get systems with a certain, certain TGP that laptop manufacturers must adhere to. Depending on the card, the TGP will range from 60W to 125W and above. In the case of the tested notebook, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU card has a TGP of up to 100 W and support for Dynamic Boost 2.0 technology.
The tested version of the Acer Nitro 5 has an Intel Core i7-11800H processor, presented in May 2021. It is the latest 11th generation chip, using the Wilow Cove architecture (improved compared to Sunny Cove, with a modified cache subsystem) and 10 nm SuperFin lithography. The base TDP of the processor is 45 W and for such a factor, the clock speed is 2.3 GHz. Thanks to the Turbo Boost 2.0 function, it is possible to increase it to a maximum of 4.6 GHz with a load of one core or 4.2 GHz with a load of all eight cores. The processor also has a new integrated graphics chip Intel UHD Graphics 750, based on the Xe-LP architecture with 32 Execution Units. Intel Tiger Lake-H processors are also the first mobile units to offer full support for the PCIe 4.0 interface - we have 20 lines at our disposal, which can be divided between the graphics card and SSD. There is also support for the Thunderbolt 4 platform. The Intel Core i7-11800H also has a 2-channel 3200 MHz DDR4 memory controller.
