Acer Chromebook Plus 516 CB516 16"

The Acer Chromebook Plus 516 CB516 is a Chromebook-category laptop with a physical footprint of 358mm wide by 253mm tall and an 18mm thickness, resulting in a total volume of 1,630.332cm³. It weighs 1,700g and does not use a fanless design, meaning it relies on active cooling. The keyboard lacks backlighting, and the chassis is neither weather-sealed nor built to a rugged standard.

The display is a 16″ IPS LCD panel with LED backlighting, outputting a resolution of 1920x1200 pixels at a pixel density of 141ppi. It runs at a 60Hz refresh rate and does not include a touch screen or an anti-reflection coating. The system is capable of driving up to four displays simultaneously, extending its usability beyond the built-in screen.

The processor runs a multi-cluster configuration of 2 cores at 1.3GHz and 8 cores at 0.9GHz, totalling 12 threads with multithreading enabled and a turbo clock speed reaching 4.6GHz, all built on a 10nm semiconductor process. The system ships with 8GB of DDR5 RAM and supports up to 64GB, while 256GB of flash storage handles local data — though the drive is not an NVMe SSD and connects via PCIe 4. The integrated GPU bases at 300MHz and boosts to 1,250MHz in turbo mode, supports DirectX 12 and 64-bit operation, but does not include XeSS acceleration.

In Geekbench 6, the system scores 2,183 in the single-core test and 7,605 across multiple cores, reflecting the processor's threaded workload capacity. On the PassMark suite, it achieves a multi-threaded result of 13,420 alongside a single-threaded score of 3,347.

Port options include two USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A ports and two USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-C ports, with no USB 4, Thunderbolt 3 or 4, DisplayPort, mini DisplayPort, or VGA outputs present. A single HDMI output handles external display connections, and AirPlay is also supported. Wireless connectivity covers Wi-Fi 5 (802.11ac) and Wi-Fi 4 (802.11n), though there is no RJ45 Ethernet port or external memory card slot on board.

The battery has a capacity of 53 Wh and the device does not include sleep-and-charge USB ports or a MagSafe power adapter.

On the audio and communication side, the device includes stereo speakers, a 3.5mm headset jack, a single microphone, and a front-facing camera. It does not support Dolby Atmos, ray tracing, or DLSS, and there is no S/PDIF output. Biometric and input options are similarly limited — there is no fingerprint scanner, 3D facial recognition, stylus, or voice command support. Sensor and navigation hardware is absent as well, with no gyroscope, accelerometer, compass, or GPS on board, and no optical disc drive is included.

The laptop-class processor sits in an LGA 1700 socket, uses big.LITTLE technology, and carries a 15W TDP with a maximum operating temperature of 100°C. Its clock multiplier is locked at 0 and the multiplier is not unlocked, ruling out overclocking — reflected in an overclocked PassMark result of 13,427, essentially matching the standard score. Cache consists of 9.5MB at L2 and 12MB at L3, memory runs across two channels at up to 5,200MHz, and ECC memory is not supported. The NX bit is present, and supported instruction sets cover SSE 4.1, SSE 4.2, AVX, AES, FMA3, F16C, and MMX. The integrated Iris Xe Graphics 80EU GPU features 80 execution units, 640 shading units, 40 TMUs, and 20 ROPs, with support for OpenCL 3 and OpenGL 4.6.