When I turned ray tracing on, the dropped to between 35 - 40 fps in both 1080p and 1440p. While playing Control, I averaged between 55 - 60 fps on the high preset in both 1080p and 1440p. The Acer Nitro 5 was shockingly consistent across resolutions in my anecdotal testing. The ROG Strix G15 Advantage Edition pushed all the way up to 79 fps. The Alienware ran at 66 fps, and the Zephyrus ran at 64 fps at 1080p and 43 fps at 1600p. It hit 68 fps at 1080p and 49 fps at 1440p. On Borderlands 3's benchmark at badass settings, the Nitro 5 came out slightly ahead of all rivals except for the ROG Strix G15 Advantage Edition. But the ROG Strix G15 Advantage Edition blew it out of the water with 70 fps. The Zephyrus was only slightly better than it with 58 fps at 1080p and 39 fps at 1600p. The Alienware was weaker than it at 53 fps. Here, it hit 57 fps at 1080p and 39 fps at 1440p. Red Dead Redemption 2 saw the Nitro 5 fall back to mid-tier performance compared to rivals with the game at medium settings. The ROG Strix G15 Advantage was towards the lower end of performance here, hitting 81 fps. The Alienware ran at 82 fps, and the Zephyrus ran at 86 fps at 1080p and 50 fps at 1600p. 1080p performance was at 84 fps and 1440p performance was at 55 fps. The ROG Strix G15 Advantage Edition actually found itself bringing up the rear here, with an fps of 71.įar Cry: New Dawn’s ultra benchmark also saw the Nitro 5 in first place.
The Alienware only hit 82 fps at 1080p, while the Zephyrus ran at 86 fps at 1080p and 50 fps at 1600p. The Acer Nitro 5 took the lead in Grand Theft Auto V’s very high benchmark, running at 93 fps at 1080p and 55 fps at 1440p. Meanwhile, the Asus ROG Strix G15 Advantage Edition was the only laptop to beat the Nito 5, hitting 88 fps on the benchmark at 1080p
At 2560 x 1600, which is admittedly a slightly more taxing resolution than 1440p, the ROG Zephyrus M16 puts out 42 fps, which is plenty fewer frames than the Nitro 5 at 1440p. That’s definitively better 1080p performance than the ROG Zephyrus M16’s 69 fps and slightly more frames at 1080p than the Alienware’s 73 fps. In Shadow of the Tomb Raider’s in-game benchmark running on its highest settings, the Nitro 5 hit 75 fps at 1080p and 51 fps at 2560 x 1440. In general, this gave the Nitro 5 strong, though not always leading, performance across our suite of test games.
That’s a more consistently mid-range set of parts than the computers we tested it against, which include the Alienware m15 Ryzen Edition R5 (Ryzen 7 5800H/RTX 3060), Asus ROG Zephyrus M16 (i9-11900H/RTX 3060) and the Asus ROG Strix G15 Advantage Edition (Ryzen 9 5900HX/Radeon RX 6800M). Our configuration for the Acer Nitro 5 had mid-range current-gen specs across the board, including a Ryzen 7 5800H processor, an RTX 3070 laptop GPU, 16GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD.