The Nitro Blaze 7 is a pocket-sized gaming machine that Acer intends to use to fill its niche in portable consoles. A market that remains “hot” as we see this week in presentations at IFA.

Although versatile smartphones once dominated the mobile game and even caused giants like Sony to throw in the towel, the reality is stubborn: specialized machines offer the best experience. And there are many good ones today, from the Chinese ones from ONE or AYA to those that continue to come from the big PC manufacturers, ASUS, MSI, Lenovo and now Acer debuting in the segment.

Nitro Blaze 7, another offer on consoles

Of course, Valve’s Steam Deck continues to be a great reference, and Acer is looking at it with the machine it has 7-inch IPS LCD touchscreennative FHD resolution for 1920 x 1080 pixels, a maximum brightness of up to 500 nits and a refresh rate of 144 Hz with AMD FreeSync Premium support.

Acer bets on AMD chips as a hardware engine, with powerful Ryzen 8040HS series which combines Zen 4 processor cores with 16 BEST Ryzen AI NPUs and Radeon 780M mobile graphics with 12 RDNA 3 GPU cores Very powerful indeed, but we will have to see if a TDP that rises above 35 watts will not penalize autonomy too much. .

The main hardware is supplemented by 16 GB LPDDR5x-7500 RAM and PCIe 4.0 x4 NVMe storage with a capacity of up to 2 TB. Other key features include 1-watt stereo speakers, dual microphones, a set of gaming controllers with Hall-effect sensor linear triggers, and a fingerprint sensor located on the power button.

Its connectivity is quite good Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.3two USB4 ports, a 3.5mm combo jack for audio and a microSD card reader. Its battery has a capacity of 50.04 Wh and the console comes with a 65W USB Type-C power adapter Its total weight is 670 grams.

Nitro Blaze 7 runs on Windows 11 and will come with a three-month PC Game Pass. Acer hasn’t given availability or price details for this machine, which further increases the range in portable consoles.