is Acer Swift 3 Ryzen 5 any good for gaming?

[bradleygreer2001]

I'm looking for a laptop for around £500-£700 for college, programming and gaming and I found the Acer Swift 3 Ryzen 5 for £649. I don't expect it to run the latest AAA games at max, I have a PC for that, but I would like to know what games this laptop would be able to run and if there are any better alternatives.

https://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/computing/laptops/laptops/acer-swift-3-15-6-amd-ryzen-5-laptop-256-gb-ssd-grey-10173889-pdt.html

any help is much appreciated.

 

[vapour]

It is not bad but gpu kind of weak compared to dedicated modern gpu like 1050. I think this is a better buy:

https://www.newegg.com/global/uk/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834316158&cm_re=1050_laptop-_-34-316-158-_-Product

 

[jaslion]

I'm looking for a laptop for around £500-£700 for college, programming and gaming and I found the Acer Swift 3 Ryzen 5 for £649. I don't expect it to run the latest AAA games at max, I have a PC for that, but I would like to know what games this laptop would be able to run and if there are any better alternatives.

https://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/computing/laptops/laptops/acer-swift-3-15-6-amd-ryzen-5-laptop-256-gb-ssd-grey-10173889-pdt.html

any help is much appreciated.

Well it can run overwatch at 720p lowest settings render scale 50% at around 50fps. So yeah not a gaming machine at all.
However the lenovo yoga 520 and 530 are both around the same price but come with a core i5 and some come with an mx130 or even mx150 both of which are far better than what the ryzen has to offer.