Acer Nitro Blaze 7 announced: Ryzen 7 8840HS, Radeon 780M, up to 2TB storage

Acer also introduced its own version of a handheld gaming device to match its rivals in the industry.

Acer Nitro Blaze 7

Acer's first entry to handheld gaming!

The gaming portable machine appeared with an ergonomic design, Xbox layout buttons, and Red, White, and mostly Black color combinations.

For display, it uses a 7-inch FHD 1920 x 1080 IPS screen with 144Hz refresh rate, 500 nits peak brightness, 10-point multitouch, 7ms response time, and 100 percent AMD FreeSync Premium support.

The Nitro Blaze 7 front and back view

Inside, it is powered by the up to 5.1GHz Ryzen 7 8840HS 8-core chip, 16 threads with Ryzen AI (39 AI TOPS), 16GB LPDDR5X SDRAM, up to 2TB M.2 NVMe PCIe 4.0 x4 Gen 4 SSD.

The integrated GPU here is the AMD Radeon 780M with a boost clock of 2.7GHz and uses RDNA 3 technology at 12 Compute Units (CUs).

For battery, the handheld sports a 50.4WHr battery with 65W USB-C charging

Other features are cooling tech to keep the temperatures low, dual speakers (1W each), microphones, 3.5mm audio jack, fingerprint reader/power button, face buttons (X, Y, A, B), D-Pad, LB, RB bumpers, LT, RT Hall effect triggers, Left and Right Joy stick, pop-up keyboard button, quick menu, mode switch keys.

For ports, it has 2x USB-C 4.0, MicroSD 4.0. Wireless connectivity is WiFi 6E and Bluetooth 5.3.

For OS, the Acer Nitro Blaze runs Windows 11 Home with Acer's dedicated Game Space. It also comes with 3 months of free PC Game Pass access.

Unfortunately, the pricing and availability of the product is still unknown. We will let you know once we hear from Acer regarding this.

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Source: Acer