 Acer is ready to comfort the budget gaming market once again. This time the Nitro 5 brings changes on the outside as well as a mandatory update in the hardware department. There are two variants of this device. The AN51558 comes with the latest 12 gen Intel CPUs, while the AN51546 is equipped with the AMD Ryzen 600 lineup. Both variants sport the latest RTX GPUs, up to 3070 Ti with 150 watt TGP. Acer has taken a different approach this time. The weight of its new device is 300 grams higher, up to 2.5 kilos. It is also a chunkier boy than last time, now sitting in 25.9 to 26.9 millimeters. Thankfully, there is a big advantage to that. The base is extremely sturdy and the laptop generally feels like it has a great built chassis, despite the plastic body around it. As you can see, the design is relatively clean with some lines printed around it. Moving to the keyboard, we see an RGB backlight paired with white painting over the keys. But there are configurations with white backlight that has all of the details painted red. The keyboard feels great. It has decent key travel, clicky feedback and numpad and large arrow keys. On the left side, there is a LAN port, a USB type A3.2 Gen 1 port and an audio jack. On the right, you get two USB type A3.2 Gen 2 ports. While the back houses and HDMI 2.1 connector add Thunderbolt 4 port and the power plug. For the AMD configurations, the Thunderbolt 4 port is replaced with a regular USB type C 3.2. Only 2 per 100 people watching this video are subscribers. If you decide to just start following us, we'll be able to reinvest more in our laboratory thus making even more helpful videos for you. Thank you, you're awesome. The new Acer Nitro 5 has two DDR4 starting slots. As for the storage, there are two M.2 PCI-EX4 slots, both of which support Gen 4 drives and RAID 0. In addition to that, you get a 2.5-inch SATA drive bay. You have a choice between two IPS panels, 144Hz Full HD and 165Hz QHD 1. We decided to test the first one, which has excellent viewing angles, good maximum brightness and great contrast ratio. Unfortunately, the display covers only 54% of the sRGB camera, resulting in inaccurate colors. Our design and gaming profile makes things better, but it is still far from being suitable for professional use. On the bright side, Acer Nitro 5's display doesn't flicker at any brightness level. This provides comfort in extent periods of use. The device comes with a 57Wh battery pack, which lasts for 8 hours and 28 minutes of web browsing or 5 hours and 53 minutes of video playback. Not a bad result for a gaming laptop. As we said in the beginning, there are two variants on the new Nitro 5. AM5-1558 comes with up to Intel Core i7-12700H and 150W in VIDA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti. While the AM5-1546 is equipped with AMD Ryzen 7 6800H and up to the same RTX 3070 Ti, which is powerful enough to run Battlefield 5 with 177FPS at ultra settings. Assassin's Creed Valhalla is a more demanding title, but RTX 3070 Ti manages to run it with more than 90FPS on average at ultra settings. This configuration has Core i5-12500H and 95W GeForce RTX 3050. The cooling system does its job well, keeping the RTX 3050 above 2GHz for long periods of time. Although fans are pretty loud, they could become even easier to hear from 10 miles away if you turn the max fans setting on. On the bright side, the keyboard is very cool, especially the WASD area, which is placed just above one of the fans. It is clear to the naked eye that Acer has made huge progress with the new Nitro 5. Its cooling is significantly improved and the performance, even out of the low tier models, is simply out of this world. This is why we are rewarding this model with our editor's choice medal. If you are looking for a gaming machine but want to remain on a budget, you have to consider the Nitro 5. It has everything you need for playing games at high FPS. And if you want to see more tests and details about the device, you can check out our in-depth review. The link is in the video description below.