Snap up this £899 Acer Nitro gaming laptop with Nvidia RTX 5060 GPU before Christmas — this 1080p powerhouse boasts a 10-core Intel CPU, 16GB RAM, and 1TB SSD
Get gaming on this affordable RTX 5060 gaming laptop from Acer
For those leaving their Christmas shopping really late this year, there's still a decent discount on a brand new gaming laptop that you can take advantage of, and it arrives before Christmas. This Acer Nitro gaming laptop features one of Nvidia's most recent GPUs for gaming, along with a powerful 10-core Intel processor, and still for less than £900.
Laptop prices have yo-yo'd recently, and the data from Camelcamelcamel confirms that, while this Acer Nitro V15 laptop was a little cheaper over Black Friday, it's still much lower than the £1,050 price it was regularly sold for over the last year. This £899.99 price tag also makes it cheaper than other RTX 5060-powered rivals, plenty of which are still priced over £1,000.
The RTX 5060 is the important spec to point out here, because a gaming laptop is made or broken by how powerful its GPU is. This is the mobile version of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060, which features 8GB of VRAM and 3,328 CUDA cores.
This Acer Nitro V15 gaming laptop features one of Nvidia's newest mobile GPUs, the GeForce RTX 5060, along with a 10-core Intel Core i7-13620H CPU. A 1TB PCIe 4.0 SSD and 16GB of DDR5 SODIMM RAM make this 16-inch laptop a formidable option for gaming at its native 1080p resolution.
With an RTX 5060, you're easily going to manage high and even ultra graphics presets in almost all games, remaining playable with decent enough frame rates. Meanwhile, this current-gen Nvidia GPU has DLSS 4 support, including multi-frame generation in games that support it, so you can boost your frame rate even further with AI-generated frames in a crunch.
Alongside the powerful GPU in this Acer laptop is an Intel Core i7-13620H CPU, which has those 10 cores we mentioned previously. Those cores are split, with six performance cores that work best for gaming, as well as four efficiency cores, which will work best for any multi-threaded task work. This Raptor Lake CPU can boost up to 4.9 GHz when needed, too.
This is a laptop, so the screen is important to consider here, too. With this model, you're gaining a 15.6-inch display with a fast 165Hz refresh rate. It offers a 1,920 x 1,080 screen resolution with a 16:9 aspect ratio.
You're well catered for in terms of storage and memory with this Acer Nitro V15 gaming laptop. It comes equipped with a 1TB SSD, featuring Gen 4 speeds, along with 16GB of DDR4 SODIMM RAM. As RAM prices continue to rise, this might be the most affordable laptop you'll be able to buy with these specs for some time, and it leaves you room to upgrade when the RAM prices do (eventually, hopefully) drop, as it includes support for a maximum 32GB.
This £899 Acer Nitro V15 is as affordable as it gets right now for a gaming laptop with an RTX 5060 GPU for gaming at 1080p. It sits comfortable under that £1,000 price point and, alongside strong performance for gaming, you can still (if you order it quickly) have it delivered before Christmas. Not a bad bargain, and given the instability in the market, one we might not see next year.
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