Acer’s Swift X May Be a Sleeper Gaming Hit With Intel’s Arc Discrete GPU

Acer’s Swift X is an attention-grabbing laptop computer. From the surface, it doesn’t appear like a lot—a easy, skinny pocket book with some enjoyable lid colours. But look on the specs sheet and out of the blue the Swift X may very well be a do-it-all laptop computer you’d be comfortable to spend cash on.

I say that as a result of the Swift X, regardless of weighing solely 3.1 kilos (about as a lot as a 13-inch MacBook Pro), could be outfitted with a 12-core Intel twelfth Gen CPU, 16GB of DDR5 RAM, two PCIe slots for as much as 1TB of storage, and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 Ti graphics card. Provided it doesn’t overheat, that’s sufficient energy to run most demanding packages and even play trendy video games (at decrease graphics settings) at respectable body charges.

While the aluminum-built Swift X is light-weight, it isn’t precisely skinny at 0.7 inches. Also, Acer additionally didn’t give us any battery life rankings, which has me anxious given its discrete GPU and high-res 14-inch, 2240 x 1400-pixel 16:10 show.

Things get much more attention-grabbing with the brand new 16-inch model, which is powered by twelfth Gen Intel Core CPUs and discrete Intel Arc graphics. Intel hasn’t mentioned a lot about its high-end discrete graphics since teasing them final yr. We’ve reached out to seek out out extra, however for now, all we all know is that the graphics will help mesh shading, variable-rate shading, video upscaling, real-time ray tracing, and an AI-accelerated tremendous sampling method just like Nvidia’s DLSS.

Otherwise, the 16-inch mannequin shares the identical specs as its smaller sibling, right down to show decision and the fairly restricted 16GB of RAM. At 0.7 inches and 4 kilos, the Swift X 16 stays comparatively transportable, although we’ll have to see how the 59Wh battery—the identical used within the 14-inch model—holds up once you’re away from the outlet.

Acer didn’t present pricing or availability for the Swift X, and I assume the laptop computer maker is ready on Intel to publically announce the provision of its upcoming discrete graphics options earlier than doing so.