Soon, manufacturers will present their new products designed for laptops. New processors and graphics cards, refreshed and completely new notebook designs. We expect that more and more information on this topic will begin to enter the web in the near future. One of such reports comes from Acer, which accidentally or not on its website posted information about the new version of the Nitro 5 laptop with a diagonal screen 17, 3 “. Serio Nitro has so far mainly concerned slightly cheaper gaming devices, where the most common cards are like the GeForce GTX 1650 Ti or GeForce GTX 1660 Ti. It is all the more surprising that the Nitro variant will receive a new GeForce RTX 3080 in the energy-saving Max-Q Design variant.

On the Acer website, a configuration of the new version of Nitro 5 with a diagonal screen 17, 3 “. The equipment is supposed to be equipped with an AMD Ryzen 7 processor 5800 H and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX card 3080 ( Max-Q Design).

Acer Nitro variant shown 5 is marked with the AN code 517 – 41 – R9S5. It is to be equipped with an 8-core and 16 – AMD Ryzen 7 threaded APU processor 5800 H from the Cezanne-H family. Additionally, there is a mention of the Ampere graphics chip – GeForce RTX 3080. Considering that the power supply is 180 W, the card is most likely in the energy-saving version of Max-Q Design. Interestingly, the card mentions 8 GB of VRAM. It is possible that this is a mistake, because according to earlier reports, the top Ampere card for laptops would be equipped with 16 GB GDDR6.

In fact, information about the upcoming Ampere cards for notebooks is like a medicine, so we do not know whether the mobile RTX 3080 will eventually receive 8 or 16 GB of memory. It is also possible that the manufacturer put incorrect information, and in fact it may be a lower variant of the GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q, which will certainly receive 8 GB VRAM. The equipment would be valued at almost EUR 1950, i.e. approx. PLN 9000. So it seems that the manufacturer may also want to introduce noticeably more expensive Acer Nitro variants, which will offer much higher performance.

Source: VideoCardz