Reading Intel’s description of the GPU exposes you to a host of buzzwords and technical jargon, but we’ll skip most of it here. That’s the make-or-break test for the Acer Swift 3X. Either the Iris Xe Max makes a difference in real-world tasks, or it doesn’t. We’ll start with performance because it’s where the rubber meets the road in this review. You can spend $899 and get a version with just Iris Xe graphics inside, a Core i5-1135G7, 8GB of RAM, and a 512GB SSD.ĭo the Iris Xe Max graphics make this a must-buy midrange laptop? Performance It comes in at $1,240 at Amazon with a Core i7-1165G7, 16GB of LPDDR4X RAM, 1TB of PCIe solid-state drive (SSD) storage, and a 14-inch Full HD (1920 x 1080) IPS display in the increasingly old-school 16:9 aspect ratio. The Acer Swift 3X isn’t a cheap laptop in its Iris Xe Max configuration - at least not for a typical Swift laptop. So far, the Iris Xe Max is in three laptops, and we received one of them - the midrange clamshell Acer Swift 3X - for review.

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