Gaming laptop with i9 and RTX3070. Usually $2488.
Windows 11 Home
• Intel® Core™ i9-11900H Processor
• 15.6" QHD IPS 165Hz SlimBezel
• 8 Core, 24 MB Cache, Up to 4.9 GHz
• NVIDIA® GeForce® RTX3070 8GB TGP 80W
• 16GB RAM & 512GB SSD
• Battery Up to 8 hours
• 802.11AX + BT
• RGB Keyboard
• HD Camera with 2Mic
• USB 3.2
3070 TGP 80W is weaker than 130w 3060.
Timespy score:
3060 80w 7900
3070 80w 8400
3060 130w 9000
3070 95w 9500
3070 140w 11100
Specs are good. Built quality is unfortunately the same as the ultra affordable $700 nitro 5s.
Build quality is fine for $700. Not so much at $2000.
Not great value at all. Nitro 5 is a budget gaming laptop, which is reflected from the build quality, screen and power limits. They are a terrible buy if you start speccing it with higher tier GPUs, like the RTX 3070 due to the lower power limits, which hampers performance greatly. For around $2000, the legion 5 pro with 5800H, RTX 3070 and 32GB of ram was available in previous bargains.
The value proposition for the Nitro 5 is when there are sales and you can grab an RTX 3060 for $1100. It still has lower power limits, meaning it performs 10% to 15% less than the more premium RTX 3060 laptops. But, it’s like 40% to 70% cheaper, as these devices usually cost $1500 to $1800.
Thanks for the info, I did not know that.
I don't think this is a bargain - at the height of the GPU shortage you could get a 10300H / 95W RTX 3060 model for $1000.
Yes this model has better specs, but why would you pay $1000 more to spec up a basic budget gaming laptop over buying a similarly specced Legion?
Even with a i5-10300H, the CPU temps were God awful always hitting 95C, the thermal throttling with an i9 inside would be out of this world
Not worth it. I had i7 3060 version thermal throttled and wattage throttled a lot due to small 180w psu. If you get the same 180w psu with i9 and 3070 you are 110% likely to throttle.
don't buy this
last gen L5Pro was on sale for 2k not long ago, with 3070 and all.
Yeah and that came with 1TB SSD and 32GB RAM.
Nice! another fake out / pre-sale, good specs tho.I hope the new gen models let you adjust ram settings when upgrading the ram.
Having the Acer Nitro AN15-57 i5 11400h RTX 3060 8Gb Ram from the last sale at HN at 1,098 I'd say it was quite good specs for the price but build quality was very…questionable in some areas and the power brick that came with the laptop died on me after 2 months (and it wasn't even Acer genuine charger - Chicony brand). Thermal was ok-ish but can get hot after 30-45m with temp hovers around 75-80 for CPU and 60-70 for GPU. Also the lack of DP port via USB C was quite disapointing but the the price I was ok with it.
At 1,996 there are other options like ASUS TUF/ Infinity / MSI / HP OMEN, etc.
Would you say that the mwave x15 would out perform this even though it's got an i9 and under powered 3070
80W GPU sounds pretty weak.
A high TDP RTX 3070 is 140W for reference