Acer Nitro V 15 ANV15-41-R21GR5, versatile gaming laptop 15″ 144Hz Black under AMD Ryzen 5 7535HS and RTX 2050 – LaptopSpirit

Our opinion on the Acer Nitro V 15 ANV15-41-R21GR5

The versatile laptop Acer Nitro V 15 ANV15-41-R21GR5 is game-oriented with its GeForce RTX 2050 ray tracing NVIDIA Ampere graphics card suitable for modest games that accelerates multimedia processing. This is also the case for the 16 GB of RAM and the powerful AMD Ryzen 5 7535HS Rembrandt Refresh processor, but also the fast 512 GB SSD storage that boosts responsiveness. This black laptop designed for gaming and creating that runs on Windows 11 is also equipped with a 15-inch IPS Full HD anti-glare screen that improves fluidity in games with its 144Hz frequency, a backlit keyboard and Wi-Fi 6 connectivity.

Acer Nitro V 15 ANV15-41-R21GR5 Specifications

The Acer Nitro V 15 ANV15-41-R8RU vs. the competition

The Acer Nitro V 15 ANV15-41-R21GR5 is currently available at Crossroads and positions itself in the average in its category where you can find competitors offering a more powerful graphics card, like theAcer Nitro V 15 ANV15-41-R8WX currently on sale equipped with a GeForce RTX 4050.

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Chassis, connectivity, screen of the Acer Nitro V 15 ANV15-41-R21GR5

With its black design with angular lines cooled by 2 fans, heat pipes and 4 air vents, this versatile laptop oriented towards gamers and creators has a relatively discreet gamer appearance.

This gaming laptop has good connectivity including 1 USB-C, a useful HDMI video output to easily connect it to a TV or monitor for example, Wi-Fi 6 ax and Bluetooth 5.1 modules for wireless remote connections and communications, Ethernet and audio ports but also 3 USB 3.0 (compatible with USB 2.0) ensuring transfers up to 10 times faster than USB 2.0 if USB 3.0 peripherals are connected to it.

The chiclet keyboard's backlight can be activated whenever you need to better distinguish its keys.

The screen is adorned with a frequency of 144Hz higher than the 60Hz standard, which clearly reinforces the general fluidity, including in games.
The Full HD screen, which is well suited to displaying videos with its 16:9 format, adopts IPS technology. As a result, its viewing angles, both horizontal and vertical, are significant. However, we are not dealing with high-end IPS here. As a result, the colorimetry is classic.
As it is anti-reflective, the screen also ensures better visibility in bright environments (e.g. outdoors) than a glossy panel.

Performance, battery life of the Acer Nitro V 15 ANV15-41-R21GR5

The Acer Nitro V 15 ANV15-41-R21GR5 is a powerful 15-inch versatile laptop with a focus on gaming and creation.

The solid overall performance provided by this laptop will delight a maximum of users.
Because it is built around 16 GB of RAM and an AMD Ryzen 5 7535HS processor Rembrandt Refresh housing the Radeon 660M graphics module. The Ryzen 5 is supported by 16 GB of RAM.

The processing performed by this core is faster than with a Quad Core, particularly in areas that are demanding on CPU and RAM resources and take advantage of multi-cores, such as photo editing or video editing.

Especially since this core is supported in processing by the dedicated GeForce RTX 2050 graphics card which accelerates them under applications exploiting GPU computing power, such as VSDC, the Adobe suite or Vegas.

The older-generation NVIDIA Ampere-based ray-tracing GeForce RTX 2050 is also capable of running modest games, which will be enough for some gamers.

The GeForce RTX 2050 is in practice automatically activated/deactivated in real time by NVIDIA Optimus technology, depending on the tasks performed.

Optimus favors operation on the Radeon 660M as much as possible, even though its performance is significantly lower, because it consumes little energy, which improves battery life.

The battery life of this versatile gaming and creation-oriented laptop is around 5 hours on battery with light use.
The GeForce RTX 2050 is therefore used by Optimus to carry out graphics work deemed too heavy for the Radeon 660M, typically for gaming.

SSD storage clearly improves responsiveness and fluidity in games, under processing and more generally in everyday life.
So starting/stopping is quick, as is launching software/games and performing processing or even accessing online game maps.

In addition to being silent, energy-efficient and robust, an SSD is indeed fast.
It offers a capacity of 512 GB here, like many models on the market (including more expensive ones!).

However, if you need more space, you can use an external storage device, preferably USB 3.0/USB-C to benefit from fast transfers.

As for heating and noise, expect them to be present in the event of heavy loads (e.g. games, processing) of this versatile laptop oriented towards gaming and creation to which we can add, if necessary, a ventilated support to limit its temperatures (remember to check the dimensions carefully!).