Acer announced, thanks to CES 2021, that the Nitro series of gaming laptops is getting a boost, with the Nitro 5, powered by a Ryzen 9 processor and graphically enhanced with a GeForce RTX 3080.

The new Nitro 5 notebooks are available with 15.6-inch or 17.3-inch displays, featuring a quad high-definition (QHD) display with a 165 Hz refresh rate or a full high-definition (FHD) display with up to a 360 Hz refresh rate. With a 3 ms response time, visuals are clean with minimal ghosting. Acer also kept colours bright with a 300-nit panel that covers 100% of the sRGB colour gamut, and made the screen more attractive by boosting its screen-to-body ratio to 80% with narrow 7.02 mm bezels.

Inside, users will find a AMD Ryzen 9 5900 HX Mobile Processor and up to an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop GPU, a powerful combination ideal for gaming enthusiasts. Rounding out this powerful CPU/GPU combo are two slots for an M.2 PCIe and/or SATA SSD (supporting up to 2TB NVMe SSD / 2TB HDD)1, up to 32 GB of DDR4 3200 RAM1 and fast networking via Killer E2600 support and Wi-Fi 6.

Twin fans, Acer CoolBoost™ technology and four strategically placed exhaust ports keep the Nitro 5 running cool. CoolBoost™ monitors fan speed and increases it when necessary to optimise total performance. Users can monitor and manage the system in real time with NitroSense, giving them control over thermal management, fan speed and more.

As of now, the Nitro 5, both sizes are due out here in Q2 of 2021, but there is no more specific release window, or more importantly, price at this time.