If you’re looking to pick up a gaming laptop, but don’t have big bucks to spend, then this outlandish Black Friday deal is for you. Right now, you can pick up an Acer Nitro V for just $579.99. That’s the cheapest ever price for this machine on Amazon, and it buys you a surprisingly decent spec, including a 165Hz screen and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4050 GPU.
Acer Nitro V 15
$749.99 $579.99
“Blaze through every game with fast refresh rates, bold graphics, and ready-to-play performance right out of the box.” – Acer
The latter is the entry-level chip in Nvidia’s last-gen Ada Lovelace lineup, and it gives you a substantial step up in gaming performance from the integrated GPUs you usually expect in machines at this price. It gives you 2,560 CUDA cores, along with 6GB of GDDR6 VRAM, which is just about enough to run the latest games with reasonable settings at the screen’s 1920×1080 resolution.
This chip also supports 2x frame gen, which uses machine learning to insert an extra frame between each pair rendered by your GPU. It’s not a fix for an unplayable frame rate, but it’s a useful tool for smoothing out motion if your games are already running at a decent pace. That’s a handy feature when you have a screen with a 165Hz refresh rate, as it will actually be able to keep up with that fast motion.
You also get a half-decent CPU in the form of an Intel Core i5-13420H, based on the Raptor Lake architecture. This chip gives you a total of eight cores, four of which are the P-Cores that mainly affect gaming performance, while the other four our power-efficient E-Cores for multi-threading. In an ideal world you’d want six P-Cores for gaming, but four is still just about enough for most games, and you really can’t complain at this price.
Meanwhile, storage comes in the form of a PCIe Gen 4 NVMe SSD, which is plenty fast enough for most people’s needs. You only get 512GB of storage space, but that’s enough for Windows and a few games. Plus, as this SSD comes in M.2 format, you can always swap it out for a model with more storage at a later date, if you’re happy to take the back off your laptop.
If there’s one downer it’s the lowly 8GB of DDR5 memory, which is on the cusp of acceptability in 2025. This is still enough to run most games, but it doesn’t give you much headroom for having multiple browser tabs open and working on image-editing, for example, and some games are demanding 16GB now too.
Ideally, you’d want at least 16-32GB of RAM, but then we are talking about a machine that costs just $579.99 in the middle of a RAM pricing crisis. As with the SSD, you can at least upgrade the RAM using standard SODIMMs at a later date, perhaps when memory pricing isn’t quite so ridiculous.
Most importantly, while it may have a couple of shortcomings, this is an entire self-contained PC gaming machine, including a 165Hz screen, RGB keyboard, Intel Core i5 CPU and Nvidia GeForce RTX GPU, for just $579.99. And at that price, it’s a bargain. Snap it up quick, while you can.
