Hold on, is this a genuinely brilliant gaming laptop deal I see before me? Why, yes it is. You’ll need to be quick, but right now Amazon is selling this Acer Nitro V15 gaming laptop for just £619.99. Unlike a lot of budget systems in the middle of this RAM crisis, it also has a decent spec. that includes 16GB of RAM and a 512GB SSD, as well as an Intel Core i7 CPU and, importantly, an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050 GPU.
Acer Nitro V15 ANV15-52
£875 £619.99
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Based on Nvidia’s latest Blackwell architecture, the RTX 5050 is a significant step up from its predecessor, the 4050. In particular, it has 8GB of GDDR7 VRAM, rather than 6GB of slower GDDR6 memory. What’s more, this RAM is attached to a 128-bit memory interface, rather than the 4050’s narrow 96-bit bus. That makes for a much quicker GPU memory setup, and it has 2,560 CUDA cores, plus full support for all Nvidia’s latest DLSS features, including multi frame gen.
That gives you a solid foundation for gaming, but it’s also great to see a decent underlying spec here. That includes 16GB of memory, and while it’s last-gen DDR4 RAM, it’s still good to see this amount of RAM in a machine at this price, particularly in these times. The same goes for the 512GB SSD. Ideally, you want at least a 1TB drive, but with storage prices currently rocketing off into the stratosphere, 512GB is a sensible compromise, particularly in a laptop that costs just £619.99.
Likewise, the Intel Core i7-13620H Raptor Lake CPU is a great inclusion at such a low price. This chip gives you six P-cores, which are the ones you want for gaming, and you also get an additional four E-cores to help out in multi-threaded workloads. You even get a decent-spec screen, with this Acer machine’s 15.6in panel offering a 1920×1080 resolution and a quick 165Hz refresh rate.
Basically, for just £20 more than the base Apple MacBook Neo, you’re getting twice as much RAM, double the SSD capacity, and a current-gen Nvidia GeForce GPU with 8GB of VRAM. That’s a bargain and a half in my book. Amazon lists the original price of this machine as £875.99, but price trackers show it was actually priced at £949.99 from August to November last year, and £619.99 is by far its lowest ever price.
You can grab this laptop now by heading over to Amazon, but you’ll need to be quick, as it’s listed as a limited-time deal.
