Acer's Nitro 5 laptop uses an AMD Ryzen Mobile processor.

Acer launches two laptops with AMD’s 2nd Gen Ryzen Mobile processors

Acer announced two laptops that use Advanced Micro Devices second-generation Ryzen Mobile processors with Radeon Vega graphics.

The Taiwanese company said it will show off the Acer Nitro 5 gaming notebook and the Acer Swift 3 thin-and-light productivity notebook at the upcoming Computex 2019 trade show in Taiwan. AMD said earlier that new Ryzen Mobile laptops will be coming from Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Huawei, Lenovo, and Samsung this yea

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.