At IFA 2024, Acer is officially introducing its first ever gaming handheld – the Nitro Blaze 7. Like most others in the market, the new gaming handheld is packing AMD’s processor, a Ryzen 7 8840HS in this case (another Ryzen 8000 APU also powers the ZOTAC GAMING ZONE handheld unveiled recently).
Acer Nitro Blaze 7: Specs
The Nitro Blaze 7 features a 7-inch FHD IPS touch display with 144Hz refresh rate, 7ms response time, and 100% sRGB gamut coverage, which should be plenty for the Radeon 780M onboard graphics to keep up (it also comes with AMD FreeSync Premium certification). Elsewhere, you get up to 2TB of SSD storage and 16GB LPDDR5X-7500 RAM, Wi-Fi 6E, dual USB4 ports, and a microSD card reader for additional storage.
It runs on Windows 11, and comes with the Acer Game Space app for players to organize their games from multiple platforms into one library. Like all handhelds, you have both touch and gamepad controls (plus several shortcut buttons), though it doesn’t come with Hall Effect sensors for its joysticks. Battery is a 50Wh unit, though Acer didn’t quote battery life figures; the entire unit weighs 670 grams, roughly the same as the ROG Ally X and Steam Deck.
Acer hasn’t announced availability or pricing information for the Nitro Blaze 7 just yet – but it likely has to be priced similar if not lower than ROG’s offering for it to be competitive, based on the specs we know so far.
Pokdepinion: Surprisingly, this is the first mainstream handheld to feature black and red color scheme – it does remind me of the early days of gaming laptops though.
