Acer Laptop GPU Upgrade – TGP Increase For RTX 3000 Series

The good folk at Acer are increasing the TGP of their laptops which have RTX 3000 series GPUs via a new firmware update. Read below to find out why and how you can benefit from this.

Why Is The Acer Laptop Firmware TGP Update Significant?

What Is TGP?

TGP stands for Total Graphics Power, and is a figure which represents the amount of power (measured in W i.e. Watts) that is consumed by the graphics card. It is primarily used for Nvidia GPUs, whereas TBP is more commonly used for AMD graphics cards.

This is not to be confused with TDP (Thermal Design Power) which is the amount of heat produced by the card that has to be dissipated by the cooling system.

TGP is a strong determining factor on how well a GPU performs. In simple terms – the amount of FPS a graphics card will be able to generate will be capped if the TGP is too low, as it does not have sufficient power.

RTX 3000 Series TGP In Laptops

There has been some controversy over the implementation of the laptop versions of Nvidia’s 30-series graphics cards. Consumer’s buying laptops with Nvidia 30 series GPUs (the Nvidia RTX 3080 for instance) have found vastly different performance when compared to other laptops with the same model of graphics card – simply because the TGP between laptops can vary so substantially.

Nvidia have pushed for laptop manufacturers to clearly list the TGP of their graphics cards when marketing their products so consumers do not feel they have been mis sold the product.

What Does The Acer TGP Firmware Upgrade Do?

Acer’s firmware update increases the TGP of much their different RTX 3000 gaming laptops by varying amounts, depending on both the laptop and the graphics card model.

The size of the TGP increase ranges from between 5 and 30 Watts. More information on the update can be found on Acer’s website.

Additionally, @jftimm_ of ComputerBase has very helpfully put together a table listing all of the affected GPUs and the TGP increase for each of them (see below).

Laptop	Model	GPU	Old TGP	New TGP
Acer Helios 300	PH317-53	RTX 3060	100	105
		RTX 3070	100	105
		RTX 3080	105	105
	PH315-54	RTX 3070	100	110
	PH317-55	RTX 3050 Ti	80	95
		RTX 3060	100	130
		RTX 3070	135	140
Triton 300	PT315-53	RTX 3050 Ti	75	85
		RTX 3060	95	105
		RTX 3070	95	110
		RTX 3080	95	110
Triton 300 SE	PT314-51s	RTX 3050 Ti	75	85
		RTX 3060	75	90
Nitro 5	AN515-45	RTX 3060	85	95
		RTX 3070	85	100
		RTX 3080	85	100
	AN515-55	RTX 3050	70	75
		RTX 3050 Ti	70	75
		RTX 3060	85	95
	AN515-56	RTX 3050	70	75
	AN515-57	RTX 3050	70	75
		RTX 3050 Ti	70	75
		RTX 3060	85	95
		RTX 3070	85	100
	AN517-41	RTX 3060	85	95
		RTX 3070	85	100
		RTX 3080	85	100
	AN517-52	RTX 3050	70	75
		RTX 3050 Ti	70	75
		RTX 3060	85	95
	AN517-53	RTX 3050	70	75
	AN517-54	RTX 3050	70	75
		RTX 3050 Ti	70	75
		RTX 3060	85	95
		RTX 3070	85	100

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