Acer’s Steam Deck competitor gets giant screen

Acer presents a new generation of its handheld gaming machines i The Nitro Blaze family: Nitro Blaze 8 and Nitro Blaze 11.

What stands out the most is the Nitro Blaze 11’s 11-inch screen, which is significantly larger than the 7.4-inch Steam Deck OLED. The Nitro Blaze 8 sibling has a slightly smaller 8.8-inch screen – which is still larger than the competition’s machines.

Nitro Blaze 11 has a refresh rate of 120 Hz and a resolution of 2,560 × 1,600 pixels. The Nitro Blaze 8, on the other hand, has a higher refresh rate of 144 Hz. Both machines are equipped with an AMD 8840HS processor with 8 cores, 16 threads, 24 MB cache and a maximum frequency of 5.1 GHz. The handhelds also have 2 TB of storage and 16 GB of primary memory.

The Nitro Blaze 11 also works as a stationary device.

The Acer devices will be launched in Europe during the second quarter of the year. The Nitro Blaze 11’s large screen also comes with a high price tag: EUR 1,199, equivalent to approximately SEK 14,000. The sibling unit costs EUR 999, or SEK 11,000. Both devices thus place themselves in the higher price range for hand-held gaming machines.

Source: www.sweclockers.com