Acer joins the handheld gaming PC market with the Nitro Blaze 7 but it's late and lacking innovation

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James is a more recent PC gaming convert, often admiring graphics cards, cases, and motherboards from afar. It was not until 2019, after just finishing a degree in law and media, that they decided to throw out the last few years of education, build their PC, and start writing about gaming instead.

The handheld gaming PC market has become so much more interesting in the last few years in the wake of the, yet with all that competition can come a miasma of forgettable entries. Not one to be easily outdone, Acer has just come crashing onto the scene with its own"AI-accelerated" build, whatever that means to you.

In reality, given the right software controls, you can run Ryzen-based handhelds right down to super low power states even below the rated 15 W cTDP. As the silicon is essentially the same between the two chips, it is possible Acer has its own application which can pull the 8840HS down to that level, too. Still, seems an odd choice out of the gate.

Moving onto the screen, it's a 7-inch full HD display with IPS. The screen also comes with a max brightness of 500 nits, a refresh rate of 144Hz, and a 7 ms response time, though we don't know more about how that response time is measured. To enable a smoother experience, it also has FreeSync Premium, AMD's screen tear software. Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team.25.6 cm width, 11.35 cm depth, 2.

While the Acer handheld looks pretty nice and has specs to match other handhelds on the market, I don't yet see what makes the Acer Nitro Blaze 7 stand out. The specs are about you would expect, but the specific AMD chip seems like a strange choice for a device that needs to be cool and power efficient.

 

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