The Acer Nitro 17 (2024) is classified as a gaming laptop with a physical footprint of 400mm wide by 293mm tall and a thickness of 28mm, giving it a total volume of 3,281.6 cm³. It tips the scales at 3,100 grams, reflecting the bulk typical of larger gaming machines. The keyboard is backlit, while the chassis does not employ a fanless design, confirming active cooling is in use. The laptop is neither weather-sealed nor built to a rugged standard, making it suited for indoor or controlled environments.
The laptop features a 17.3-inch screen running at a 1920x1080 resolution with a pixel density of 127 ppi, delivering a standard full HD image across the large panel. Typical brightness is rated at 500 nits, and the display supports a 165Hz refresh rate, which benefits fast-paced content. The screen does not include a touch layer or an anti-reflection coating. The system can drive up to four displays simultaneously through its GPU output configuration.
The processor runs ten cores — six at 2.4GHz and four at 1.8GHz — with a turbo ceiling of 4.8GHz across 16 threads, though hardware-level multithreading is not enabled. The chip is built on a 4nm process node and supports 64-bit operation. System memory sits at 16GB of DDR5, expandable up to a maximum of 192GB. Storage is handled by a 512GB NVMe SSD over a PCIe 4.0 interface, using flash-based technology. On the graphics side, the GPU runs at a base clock of 1605MHz with a boost up to 2370MHz, backed by 6GB of GDDR6 VRAM, and delivers 12.13 TFLOPS of floating-point performance alongside a texture rate of 204.8 GTexels/s and a pixel rate of 113.76 GPixel/s. The GPU supports DirectX 12 Ultimate but does not include XeSS acceleration.
In PassMark testing, the system records an overall CPU score of 24,142 and a single-thread score of 3,747, reflecting the processor's throughput across both multi-core and single-core workloads. The GPU achieves a PassMark G3D score of 17,148, representing its measured graphics rendering capability under that benchmark.
The laptop's port selection centers on USB Type-C, offering three USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C ports alongside two Thunderbolt 4 ports that also double as USB 4 40Gbps connections; there are no USB-A ports of any generation. Video output is available via a single HDMI port, while DisplayPort, mini DisplayPort, and VGA outputs are absent. Wired networking is covered by one RJ45 port, and wireless connectivity spans Wi-Fi 6E, Wi-Fi 6, Wi-Fi 5, and Wi-Fi 4 standards. An external memory card slot is present, and the system supports AirPlay.
The laptop is equipped with a 90Wh battery, which sits at the larger end of what is commonly found in gaming notebooks of this class. The system does not include sleep-and-charge USB ports, meaning connected devices will not charge when the laptop is powered off, nor does it use a MagSafe-style power adapter.
On the audio side, the laptop includes stereo speakers and a 3.5mm headset jack, though it lacks Dolby Atmos and an S/PDIF output. A single microphone and a front-facing camera are built in, while biometric options such as a fingerprint scanner and 3D facial recognition are absent, as are voice command support. Gaming-relevant GPU features include ray tracing and DLSS support. The machine does not come with a stylus, nor does it carry motion or location sensors — there is no gyroscope, accelerometer, compass, or GPS. An optical disc drive is also not included.
The CPU is a laptop-class processor with a clock multiplier of 24, a maximum operating temperature of 100°C, a TDP of 115W, and a 20MB L3 cache. It employs big.LITTLE technology, supports the NX bit for hardware-level execution protection, and carries a broad instruction set including MMX, F16C, FMA3, AES, AVX, AVX2, SSE 4.1, and SSE 4.2, though the multiplier is locked. Memory runs across two channels at an effective speed of 16,000MHz, with a maximum supported RAM speed of 5,600MHz and ECC memory support. The discrete GPU is built on the Ada Lovelace architecture and features 2,560 shading units, 80 texture mapping units, 48 ROPs, and 16 execution units, with VRAM operating at 2,000MHz across a 96-bit bus delivering up to 192 GB/s of bandwidth. It supports Intel Resizable BAR, multi-display output, stereoscopic 3D, double precision floating point, OpenCL 3.0, and OpenGL 4.6, and does not include LHR. An integrated GPU with 16 execution units is also present alongside the discrete card. The CPU contains 18,900 million transistors in total.
