Essential Guide: Breaking Acer Nitro V15 (2025) Review
You get what you pay for with gaming laptops, and at this cost level you can expect a few things to be less than premium. With its older CPU and low-end GPU, the Acer Nitro V15 still manages to pump out the frames at 1080p, but does it with a level of noise and bluster you might have thought a thing of the past.
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The budget gaming laptop sector is booming, as the CPU and GPU gains of the last few years are trickling down nicely and you can get a very fast frame rate at 1080p for a lot less than you’d pay for something like an Alienware 18 Area-51. You’re not getting quite the same level of GPU power or build quality either, but a cheaper laptop like the Acer Nitro V15 can still produce the goods. And the heat. And the noise.
Acer has taken a trip back in time for the V15, with the model sent to PCG for review sporting a Core i7 13620H processor. That’s a Raptor Lake chip with ten cores split between four P-cores and six E-cores for 16 simultaneous software threads thanks to the 13th Gen coming before the death of P-core Hyper-Threading. It’s a chip from 2023, but its max turbo frequency of 4.9 GHz means it’s still competitive, even if it puts out a lot of heat and drives the Nitro’s cooling system crazy.
The heat production, and the attendant spinning of the fans, is one of the drawbacks that the comparatively cool-running Core Ultra chips have partly solved. This chip feels like a throwback to the old days of gaming laptops that would come close to the edge of combustion while rendering your frames.
Put the machine into Turbo mode, and you’re going to want to do that just to eke every drop of power out of it to feed the relentless hunger of the 165 Hz screen, and you’ll shortly know about it. The CPU’s max operating temperature is 100 °C, and it reached it while running a gaming benchmark in testing. It’s not going to be a problem for the chip, which will happily run at the kind of temperatures more commonly encountered in a nice hot cup of tea, but you’re also not going to get any more out of it. It’s done.
Model: ANV15-52-710TCPU: Intel Core i7 13620HGPU: Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 (8 GB)Memory: 16 GB DDR4Storage: 1 TB SSDScreen size: 15.6-inchScreen type: IPSResolution: 1920 x 1080Refresh rate: 165 HzPorts: 1 x USB4, 3 x USB 3.2 Gen1 Type-A, 1x HDMI, 1x
Source: PC Gamer
