Nitro Blaze 7: Acer Enters the PC Handheld Race
Another PC manufacturer is jumping into the handheld gaming race, as Acer today announces its own Ryzen 7 device.
Surprising exactly no one, another PC manufacturer is jumping into the handheld gaming race in 2024. Today Acer announced its first Windows gaming device: the Nitro Blaze 7.
As it is the first in its line, the “7” is evidently for the size of the screen — a 7-inch touch display at the typical HD resolution of 1920×1080, and rocking a 144 Hz refresh rate. The Nitro Blaze should keep up with its competitors in performance, powered by the AMD Ryzen™ 7 8840HS chip with Radeon™ 780M graphics.
Take a peek at the release video:
Memory options and pricing have yet to be announced, but the promo states that the Nitro Blaze can take a solid-state drive up to 2TB (PCIe Gen4 NVMe). It will come equipped with 16GB of LPDDR5x RAM (running at 7500MHz), and Wi-Fi 6E.
Acer also says that the device will ship with 3 free months of Xbox Game Pass included.
With the same 7-inch display and an 8840U Acer’s handheld could make for some decent competition with Asus’s ROG Ally X (which has a 120 Hz screen). Of course everything depends on the price, so we’ll be watching to see where Acer pins this one on the increasingly wide spectrum of PC handheld gaming.
