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REVIEWS ACER ASPIRE 5 A515-54-51DJ

The Core i5-based Aspire
PCMark 8 Work 2.0 Conventional 5 gets high marks for its

PCMark 8 performance.
(Native resolution)
HandBrake
Acer Aspire 5 A515-54-51DJ
(Core i5-8265U) 3,506
A considerably
Lenovo IdeaPad 730S-13IWL
(Core i5-8265U) 3,431 tougher test than
Lenovo ThinkPad L390 Yoga PCMark 8, our
(Core i5-8265U) 3,413
HandBrake benchmark
Acer E 15 E5-576G-5762
(Core i5-8250U) 3,338
measures how long it
Acer Aspire 5 A515-51-58HD
(Core i5-8250U) 3,307 takes for a given laptop
Asus ZenBook 13 UX331UA to convert a 40GB
(Core i5-8250U) 3,303
video file into an
Acer Aspire 5 A515-54-30BQ
(Core i3-8145U) 3,224 Android tablet-

Lenovo ThinkPad L480 compatible format.
(Core i5-8250U) 3,150
Acer E 15 E5-576-392H Whereas PCMark 8 is a
(Core i3-8130U) 2,949
single-core workout for
LONGER BARS INDICATE BET TER PERFORMANCE
a CPU, HandBrake
demands peak

HandBrake Total Encode Time performance from all of
a processor’s cores,
(Seconds)
meaning that the chip
Lenovo ThinkPad L480
(Core i5-8250U) 3,701 with the most cores will
Acer E 15 E5-576G-5762 generally win out.
(Core i5-8250U) 3,846
Acer Aspire 5 A515-51-58HD Like most of the
(Core i5-8250U) 4,071
laptops in our
Lenovo ThinkPad L390 Yoga
(Core i5-8265U) 4,286 comparison chart, the
Lenovo IdeaPad 730S-13IWL Core i5-powered Aspire
(Core i5-8265U) 4,611
5 has a quad-core
Acer Aspire 5 A515-54-51DJ 4,973
(Core i5-8265U)
processor, and indeed,
Asus ZenBook 13 UX331UA
(Core i5-8250U) 5,136
Acer E 15 E5-576-392H One reason for the Aspire
(Core i3-8130U) 5,995
5’s middling HandBrake
Acer Aspire 5 A515-54-30BQ
(Core i3-8145U) 7,673 score is that its quad-core
CPU frequently throttles
SHORTER BARS INDICATE BET TER PERFORMANCE
itself to keep things cool.

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