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Acer Swift X Laptop With AMD Ryzen 5000 Series Cpu And 14-inch Display Now Available in India.

Wednesday, September 7 saw the launch of the Acer Swift X laptop in India. It’s powered by AMD’s latest Ryzen 5000 series processor and Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3050 Ti GPU. An all-metal chassis houses a variety of colors. It weighs only 1.39kg and is only 17.9mm thick, making it a very compact and lightweight design. One of its most notable features is the notebook’s 14-inch full-HD+ display, which covers 100 percent of the sRGB color gamut. The Acer Swift X, according to the company, has a battery life of up to 15 hours and is aimed at creative professionals, content editors, and streamers.

Specifications: Acer Swift X

When it comes to specs, the Acer Swift X is powered by an AMD Ryzen 5 5600U mobile CPU. You get an Nvidia laptop GPU, the GeForce RTX 3050 Ti. In terms of display, buyers get a 14-inch (1,920×1,080 pixels) full HD IPS display with 100 percent sRGB coverage, an 85.7 percent screen-to-body ratio, and 300 nits peak brightness. The new Acer Swift-series laptop has a battery life of up to 15 hours.
As of now, the Acer Swift X is available with up to 16GB of RAM and up to 2TB of SSD storage space. 59Wh battery and fast charging support are included in the Acer Swift X’s specs sheet. Only 1.39kg and 17.9mm thick, it’s lightweight. You’ll find a full-function USB Type C port, an HDMI output, and a 3.5mm headphone/microphone jack on the device. There is also a fingerprint sensor for more secure sign-in through Windows Hello, AI noise suppression for smoother video calls, and Acer BlueLightShield technology to help reduce eyestrain during long sessions on the computer.
It boasts a fan with 59 blades and dual D6 copper heat pipes for maximum cooling efficiency, according to Acer. The air inlet keyboard design also improves thermal performance, releasing 8-10% more heat than a keyboard without an air inlet, according to the report.

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Price And Availability Details

For 84,999 rupees, you can get your hands on Acer Swift X in India! On the Acer Online Store, you can buy it now. Besides Flipkart, Acer Exclusive stores, and Vijay Sales authorized retailers, the laptop will also be available on Flipkart.

About the Company

With an initial investment of $25,000, Stan Shih Chen Jung and his friends founded Acer in 1976. Multitech International was the company’s name, and they began by designing hand-held electronic games before moving on to distribute semi-conductors that they had imported from developing countries at a lower price.
In 1981, Acer Inc. was formed. ‘Microprofessor’ was their first successful product and provided them with revenue for their future endeavors. It was only a matter of time before the company began manufacturing personal computers, which they sold to companies under their well-known brands.
When it came to selling its products directly, Acer was the first. As a result of investing their profits in R&D, this was only possible. With the help of the Intel 386 processor, it was able to create the world’s first Chinese language computer in 1986!
Acer spun off its manufacturing operations as Wistron Corporation in 2000 to focus on sales and marketing of its core brand. Identifying and implementing marketing strategies that maximized Acer’s existing distribution channels allowed the company to grow globally while simultaneously reducing its workforce. In 2005, Acer had a global workforce of just 7,800 people. 2003’s revenues grew to $4.9 billion, while 2006’s revenues grew to $11.3 billion. Market share in North America has decreased over the past few years, while market shares in Europe have increased. When Acer announced plans to acquire Gateway Inc. for $710 million on August 27, 2007, it was a surprise.
Acer announced in January 2008 that it had acquired a controlling 75 percent stake in Packard Bell. There are four Acer brands in the Acer 4Group – Acer, Gateway, Packard Bell & eMachines. Since each brand has its own set of characteristics, each brand can target different customer needs within the global PC market.

AMD

New Ryzen 5000 series mobile processors by AMD released in CES 2021

The new AMD’s Ryzen 5000 series mobile processors promise the best gaming experience for 2021. Most of the new processors in this new series are based on the architecture of 7nm ‘Zen 3’ and the company claims this model to be both energy-efficient and high in performance. AMD revealed this big announcement at the virtual event of CES 2021. Lisa Su, CEO of AMD, said that the new Ryzen 5000 mobile series is the most powerful processor ever built.

These new processors will be available in the early Q1 2021 from manufacturing companies like Lenovo, Asus, Acer, Dell, and HP. Su also mentioned that about 150 models will be launched this year showing a 50% increase in growth over the previous generation. Apart from the new series of mobile processors, AMD also showed a glimpse of upcoming Radeon GPUs for both desktops and laptops. Along with this, the company showed a teaser of the next-gen Epyc data centers CPUs.

AMD Ryzen 5000 series

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The 5000 series of AMD processors have two main categories, namely, the H series and the U series. Laptops of the H series are extensively used by gamers and content creators whereas the U series laptops are more of ultraportable notebooks.

Ryzen H, HS, and HX series

As the H series processors are specially designed for high-performance gaming laptops, the company is focusing on Ryzen HX as a differentiating brand to represent the choice for ultimate gaming laptops. The battery life of this new series of laptops is outstanding so that the gamers are not interrupted while playing. The processor of the H series has 3 cores and 16 threads. As compared to the last generation processors, Ryzen 9 5980HX has a 23% increased capability to perform single-thread performance and a 17% boost in performing multi-thread functions.

While the new HX series is all focused on gaming quality with a boost speed of 4.6 GHz, 45W TDP, 20MB of L2+L3 cache, the HS-series processors are designed for thin and light systems. On the HS-series, Ryzen 9 5980HS also has 8 cores and 16 threads. It allows a top boost speed of 4.8 GHz and like AMD says “the fastest mobile processors you can get.”  Some of the new processors in the H-series, HS-series, and HX-series are Ryzen 7 5800H, Ryzen 9 5980HX, and Ryzen 9 5900HS respectively.

The U-series from Ryzen

According to the company, the new Ryzen 7 5800U from the U-series is rated for a high battery life of 17.5 hours of general usage and 21 hours in case of video playback. This new processor of the U-series also has 8 cores and 16 threads with a boost speed of 4.4 GHz slightly lower than the H-series. AMD claims that this processor will deliver the fastest productivity in ultrathin notebooks. Targeting mainly the general consumers like students and office goers, the new processors of the U-series will provide a 16% boost in the single-thread performance and 14% in the multi-thread performance. Till now, 5 new models of the U-series have been announced by the company but some of them will still run on the Zen-2 architecture. Models like Ryzen 7 5700U, Ryzen 5 5500U, and Ryzen 3 5300U will run on Zen-2 architecture.

Apart from the new H-series and U-series processors, AMD has also introduced new Ryzen desktop processors. The company revealed new variants of Ryzen 9 5900X and Ryzen 7 5800X for a better experience for desktop users. AMD claims that the desktop process Ryzen 9 5900X will increase the 1080p gaming performance by making it 24% faster than the previous generation.

New Intel processors

With introducing so many powerful processors this year, it will give a tough competition for the Intel processors. In the virtual event of CES 2021, Intel also introduced the new Tiger Lake H systems. Last year, Intel launched the 11th Gen Tiger Lake processors and in CES 2021, the company released the H-series of the 11th Gen Core chips. Intel is introducing 35W H-series chips so that the performance is enhanced for the lightweight small laptops. The details are not very clear about the upcoming models for 45W chips which AMD needs to look out for.