Acer ALG
The Acer ALG AL15G-52 is a solid pick for budget gamers and students, offering great performance and value for just ₹64,999. The Intel Core i5-12450H and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 on this laptop can handle most modern games on medium to high settings without breaking a sweat. However, the slower RAM and slightly lower TGP on the RTX 3050 might hold it back a bit in more demanding games. Overall, it’s a strong choice if you’re looking for a gaming laptop that doesn’t cost a fortune.
Acer ALG is a “new” lineup of pocket-friendly gaming laptops from Acer. We say “new” because the ALG stands for Aspire Lite Gaming, so it’s technically a rebranding of Acer’s Aspire Gaming lineup of laptops. Priced at just ₹64,999, the Acer ALG is a budget contender in a competitive laptop market, hoping to blend performance with affordability. Of course, we’re going to find out if it successfully manages to do so in this review. So let’s dive in, starting off with the specifications.
Processor: Intel Core i5-12450H
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop GPU
VRAM: 6 GB GDDR6
TGP: 75 W
Memory: 16 GB DDR4-3200
Storage: 512 GB NVMe SSD (Expandable)
Display: 15.6-inch, FHD (1080p) IPS Display, 144 Hz Refresh Rate
Price: ₹64,999
At a glance, you wouldn’t really think that this was a gaming laptop. The Acer ALG AL15G-52 features a sleek and subtle steel grey finish. The aluminium lid is raised towards the centre and has ridges which causes parts of the lid to reflect light at different angles. While the effect is nice this design does cause the lid to flex a lot. The hinge is fairly sturdy, and doesn’t wobble too much. The laptop is fairly easy to open as well, and can be opened with one hand.
The keyboard on the ALG offers good travel and feedback, and is similar to what Acer offers with the Nitro series. You get a full-sized keyboard, numpad included, and the spacing is decent as well. The overall gaming and typing experience is good.
Coming to input and output options, you’ve got one USB-A 3.2 port, one USB-A 2.0 port, two USB-C 3.2 ports, an HDMI 2.0 port, an ethernet port, a microSD card reader, and two 3.5mm jacks, one for headphones and one for a microphone. We would say this is a pretty good selection of ports at this price.
Coming to the display, the Acer ALG features a 15.6-inch Full HD IPS panel with a refresh rate of 144 Hz. During our testing, we tested a peak average brightness of 281 nits, which is about standard in this price range. Coming to colour accuracy, we tested 63.4 percent sRGB and 45.3 percent DCI-P3 colour gamut coverage. You won’t usually find colour accurate displays on gaming laptops at this price, and what the ALG does offer will more than suffice for your gaming and media consumption needs.
With that we come to the performance. Taking a look at the specs once again, we have a 12th gen Intel Core i5-12450H paired with an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop GPU. The RTX 3050 comes with 6GB of VRAM as opposed to 4GB which is nice. The TGP is 75 W, which isn’t the highest TGP that an RTX 3050 can go to, but the difference in performance between this and a 95 W RTX 3050 isn’t much, at least in terms of real-world performance. It falls slightly behind in synthetic gaming benchmarks, but there are other factors that contribute to this, like the slower 16 GB of DDR4-3200 RAM in the Acer ALG which is much slower than the DDR5 present in some gaming laptops in this price range.
The 12th gen i5-12450H is a solid entry-level processor, and the processor and productivity benchmarks were pretty much middle of the pack across the board.
Like we mentioned earlier, the DDR4 RAM on the Acer ALG is on the slower side, possibly among the slowest we’ve tested in this segment this year. Fortunately that doesn’t seem to have affected the gaming performance too much.
Starting off with synthetic benchmarks, for which we’ve used 3DMark, once again, the Acer ALG scores within expectations, leaning towards higher scores, especially when compared to gaming laptops offering RTX 2050s in the same price range. However, it falls slightly short when compared to other RTX 3050 laptops in the segment.
In real-world gaming however, this gap is much shorter, and in some cases non-existent. As you can see, FPS numbers are solid across the board. Even Cyberpunk 2077 will give you around 30 FPS with RTX on which is nice. You should easily be able to play most modern AAA titles at medium to high settings without much trouble.
We recorded an average surface temperature of 34 degrees Celsius during our stress testing of Acer ALG with the hottest spot being the central IJKL cluster at around 45 degrees Celsius. During our CPU stress test, the CPU hit 86 degrees Celsius which is within expectations. During the Unigine Valley stress test, the GPU hit a peak temperature of 78 degrees Celsius.
The Acer ALG AL15G-52 is a solid pick for budget gamers and students, offering great performance and value for just ₹64,999. The Intel Core i5-12450H and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 on this laptop can handle most modern games on medium to high settings without breaking a sweat. However, the slower RAM and slightly lower TGP on the RTX 3050 might hold it back a bit in more demanding games. Overall, it’s a strong choice if you’re looking for a gaming laptop that doesn’t cost a fortune.
