Acer Aspire V3-571G-9435: The Value Proposition
by Jarred Walton on July 4, 2012 4:25 AM ESTAcer V3-571G General Performance
We start as usual with our general performance application benchmarks. We still don’t have quite as many laptops available in our updated Mobile Benchmark Suite as we’d like, and there’s not much point in comparing a full-size notebook with several different models of Ultrabook. We’ve tried to stick with the more meaningful comparisons where possible, but we also wanted to flesh out the charts with additional data points. The result is the following selection of laptops, with their basic specs listed in the table, and as always, should you want to make additional comparisons, head over to Mobile Bench.
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Laptop | CPU | Graphics | Storage | Battery |
Acer Aspire V3-571G | Intel i7-3610QM | GT640M/HD4000 | HDD | 48Wh |
Acer TimelineU M3 | Intel i7-2637M | GT640M/HD3000 | SSD | 55Wh |
AMD Trinity Prototype | AMD A10-4600M | HD7660G | SSD | 56Wh |
ASUS N56VM (Prerelease) | Intel i7-3720QM | GT630M/HD4000 | HDD | 56Wh |
ASUS Zenbook Prime UX21A | Intel i7-3517U | HD4000 | SSD | 35Wh |
ASUS G74SX-A2 | Intel i7-2630QM | GTX560M/HD3000 | SSD | 90Wh |
Clevo W110ER | Intel i7-3720QM | GT650M/HD4000 | Hybrid | 62Wh |
Razer Blade | Intel i7-2640M | GT555M/HD3000 | SSD | 60Wh |
Sony VAIO SE | Intel i7-2640M | HD6630M/HD3000 | HDD | 49Wh |
Toshiba P755D | AMD A8-3520M | HD6620G | HDD | 47Wh |
As we’re starting with PCMark results, we again want to note how much of an impact the presence of an SSD has on the results. It makes most of the comparisons between the HDD and SSD equipped laptops meaningless, but it does serve to drive home the point that for some workloads an SSD will make a huge difference. I switched over to a 240GB SSD for my laptop and Ultrabook use, and whenever I have to use and test a laptop that only has HDD storage (like the Acer V3), the difference is painfully obvious.
The placement of the Acer V3 in the above charts isn’t very inspiring, but remember what we said about SSDs. Most of the higher scoring laptops feature SSDs and/or slightly faster CPUs. For general use, any of the laptops will be “fast enough”, and as long as you don’t mind waiting during intense periods of disk activity (e.g. initial boot up of the OS and various applications) even the HDD equipped laptops will work well. Still, one look at what an SSD does for the ASUS N56VM might make you consider splurging on better storage system. Acer adds insult to injury here by going with a 5400RPM hard drive, and the only slower Storage score in the charts comes from the Toshiba P755D—which also uses a 5400RPM Toshiba hard drive, not surprisingly.
If we look at the one PCMark 7 test that doesn’t hit storage at all, the Computation suite, we run into a different problem. Here, all of the laptops that support Intel’s Quick Sync technology get a massive performance boost, and the Ivy Bridge processors are basically twice as fast with Quick Sync as Sandy Bridge parts. It makes for yet another lopsided graph, which makes the overall usefulness of the PCMark scores debatable. As long as we understand what the charts represent, however, we can at least use them to gauge relative performance. The basic summary is that, for general use, a moderate CPU (e.g. Trinity, Llano, or Sandy Bridge) with an SSD will offer a better experience than just about any current HDD-based laptop; similarly, if you want to do hardware accelerated video encoding, there’s no beating Quick Sync.
When we shift over to our more CPU- and GPU-centric tests, the performance results start to look more sensible. As one of two quad-core Ivy Bridge laptops, the Acer V3-571G takes second place in all four of our CPU-based tests, losing out by a small margin to the higher clocked i7-3720QM in the ASUS N56VM. The 3DMark scores tell a similar story, although this time it’s the GTX 560M in the ASUS G74SX that takes first place, with the GT 640M generally falling into second place and trading blows with the Razer Blade and Acer M3-581TG Ultrabook. The latter has the same GPU but a slower ULV Sandy Bridge processor, and we should hopefully have the updated M5 Ivy Bridge model in for testing in the near future.
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Abirzenith - Thursday, July 12, 2012 - link
Well Despite what many people are saying , this review will be very helpful to those who are researching for a new laptop. At the end of the day it all comes to the person who's going to buy the product , To some display matters the most, To some processing power and to some the graphics processing unit matters the most. It depends on individual taste, you need to decide what you want the most out of our Laptoppman6 - Thursday, July 12, 2012 - link
we need more core i5's with dedicated graphics at budget prices.Give me 15.6" 3rd gen core i5 + gt650m + 1600x900 lcd for under $700 please.
karasaj - Sunday, July 15, 2012 - link
That's asking for way too much for way too little, haha. You can get that for ~900 I think, but 700$ is pretty expensive.I think there could be more i3 +dGPU options below 700$ to compete with AMD, but i5 + 650M + a good LCD is a lot to ask for under 700$ I think.
Jiah - Saturday, July 21, 2012 - link
can you compare this 2?so that i could tell which one is betteri'm about to buy one of them
(sorry bout my english)
bloodlife - Monday, August 27, 2012 - link
Is this model available in India..?It's isn't displayed in Acer.in
anakr3 - Friday, November 23, 2012 - link
Very useful review; thank you. Reached here looking for an in depth review of the Acer Aspire V3-571G-6407 (the Core i5 3210M 2.5 GHz model) which is about $550. I am planning to use this mainly as an htpc for streaming HD movies and music..I was initially thinking of a mac mini, but it looks like a laptop with this spec will be more flexible for my purposes. Two questions:1) I've read somewhere that some of the laptops don't output full HD via their HDMI ports. Is this the case with the Acer V3?
2) Is it ok to run a laptop like this 24/7?
Vundolf - Saturday, May 4, 2013 - link
Can you please make a video tut of how to open this laptop ? I'd like to clean it's fan cuz' it's overheatingFiloSvR - Thursday, October 17, 2013 - link
where i can find a dual-channel LVDS cables for acer v3-571g ( 2012 - 2013 model ), i had bought a 1080p screen replacement, but i can't use it! Please help