CES 2025: Acer unveiled two powerful handheld consoles, the Nitro Blaze 8 and Nitro Blaze 11

Acer unveiled two new models of its Nitro Blaze line of handheld consoles at CES 2025.

Here's What We Know

Buyers will be offered the Nitro Blaze 8 with an 8.8-inch display and the Nitro Blaze 11 with a 10.95-inch diagonal.

Both models feature an AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS 8-core processor with a maximum frequency of 5.1Hz, 16GB of LPDDR5X SDRAM RAM, AMD Radeon 780M graphics, 2TB storage and Windows 11 operating system.

The Nitro Blaze 8 and Nitro Blaze 11 feature WQXGA (1366×768 pixels) resolution displays with a refresh rate of 120Hz for the Blaze 8 and 144Hz for the Blaze 11. The consoles support Radeon Super Resolution and AMD Fidelity FX Super Resolution technologies to boost gaming performance.

The developer has integrated 55Wh lithium-polymer batteries in the devices, which support fast charging: 65W for the Blaze 8 and 100W for the Blaze 11.

The gadgets will get Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.3 support and a Ryzen AI chip with up to 39 TOPS. The consoles will have USB 4 (Type-C), USB 3.2 (Type-C), USB 3.2 (Type-A) ports and a Micro SD slot on the chassis.

The main difference between the Nitro Blaze 8 and Nitro Blaze 11 is that the controllers from the larger model can be removed and used remotely. There is also a difference in the weight of the devices and their charging speed.

When to expect and the cost of the devices

It is stated that the Acer Nitro Blaze 8 and Nitro Blaze 11 will go on sale in North America in the second quarter of2025 for $899 and in Europe, Middle East and Africa for €999.

As a bonus when purchasing the gadget, users will get three free months of access to the PC Game Pass service.

Source: Acer