Your Acer gaming laptop computer is about to get an entire lot extra highly effective. The corporate is growing the quantity of energy it is throwing on the RTX 30-series cell GPUs in present (and future) gaming laptops. Machines, such because the Nitro 5, Predator Helios, and Predator Triton 300, are getting a lift from 5 to 30 watts, growing graphical efficiency all by way of a free firmware replace.
It isn’t day-after-day we see producers step in and crank up the TGP of the GPUs on their laptops nicely after they’ve hit the market. Rising the TGP (Whole Graphics Energy) means extra juice could be funneled into the system’s GPU, bettering efficiency. At the least in principle.
We cannot know till we get our fingers on a laptop computer that has this new replace to see how vital an fps bump we get throughout gaming. We have now to anticipate that Acer is aware of what it is doing, and the cooling on provide inside these gaming laptops is sufficient to deal with the additional warmth the upper energy GPUs will generate. If not the chips may hit their thermal limits and throttle again underneath critical load.
However, assuming this goes nicely for Acer, it’s going to be straightforward for different OEMs to drag an analogous transfer on their very own notebooks to eke out extra efficiency just by adjusting system energy ranges.
Marcel Behm, Senior Enterprise Supervisor Acer Germany launched an announcement concerning the replace, “Our declare to gaming {hardware} is to supply a steadiness between the very best CPU and GPU efficiency, quantity, and sturdiness. Accordingly, we’re happy to supply each patrons, and plenty of of our present prospects improved graphics efficiency with the BIOS replace.”
The parents over at ComputerBase broke down how a lot of a TGP increase every of the Acer gaming notebooks is getting and we have pulled all of it right into a useful chart on the backside of this text.
An attention-grabbing stand-out is the Helios 300 with an RTX 3060, which is getting a whopping +30W TGP increase after the replace. It will likely be attention-grabbing to see how this variation will have an effect on issues like system stability, GPU temperature, and naturally, body charges.
And in addition whether or not the end-user will be capable to simply roll it again in the event that they discover issues are abruptly slightly louder than they had been comfy with.
We have now reached out to Acer for remark concerning the replace, and can replace as and once we hear something again.
| Mannequin | GPU | New TGP (Watts) | Previous TGP (Watts) | Distinction | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acer Nitro 5 | |||||
| AN517-52 | RTX 3060 | 95 | 85 | +10 | |
| RTX 3050 Ti | 75 | 70 | +5 | ||
| RTX 3050 | 75 | 70 | +5 | ||
| AN517-53 | RTX 3050 | 75 | 70 | +5 | |
| AN517-54 | RTX 3070 | 100 | 85 | +15 | |
| RTX 3060 | 95 | 85 | +10 | ||
| RTX 3050 Ti | 75 | 70 | +5 | ||
| RTX 3050 | 75 | 70 | +5 | ||
| AN517-41 | RTX 3080 | 100 | 85 | +15 | |
| RTX 3070 | 100 | 85 | +15 | ||
| RTX 3060 | 95 | 85 | +10 | ||
| AN515-55 | RTX 3060 | 95 | 85 | +10 | |
| RTX 3050 Ti | 75 | 70 | +5 | ||
| RTX 3050 Ti | 75 | 70 | +5 | ||
| RTX 3050 | 75 | 70 | +5 | ||
| AN515-56 | RTX 3050 | 75 | 70 | +5 | |
| AN515-57 | RTX 3070 | 100 | 85 | +15 | |
| RTX 3060 | 95 | 85 | +10 | ||
| RTX 3050 Ti | 75 | 70 | +5 | ||
| RTX 3050 | 75 | 70 | +5 | ||
| AN515-45 | RTX 3080 | 100 | 85 | +15 | |
| RTX 3070 | 100 | 85 | +15 | ||
| RTX 3060 | 95 | 85 | +10 | ||
| Helios 300 | |||||
| PH317-55 | RTX 3070 | 140 | 135 | +5 | |
| RTX 3060 | 130 | 100 | +30 | ||
| RTX 3050 Ti | 95 | 80 | +15 | ||
| PH315-53 | RTX 3080 | 105 | 100 | +5 | |
| RTX 3070 | 105 | 100 | +5 | ||
| RTX 3060 | 105 | 100 | +5 | ||
| PH315-54 | RTX 3070 | 110 | 100 | +10 | |
| Triton 300 | |||||
| PT315-53 | RTX 3080 | 110 | 95 | +15 | |
| RTX 3070 | 110 | 95 | +15 | ||
| RTX 3060 | 105 | 95 | +10 | ||
| RTX 3050 Ti | 85 | 75 | +10 | ||
| Triton 300 SE | |||||
| PT314-51s | RTX 3060 | 90 | 75 | +15 | |
| RTX 3050 Ti | 85 | 75 | +10 |
