Acer Swift 3 (SF314-42)
- HDD/SSD
- up to 2000GB SSD
- M.2 Slot
- 1x 2280 PCIe NVMe 3.0 x4 See photo
- RAM
- up to 20GB
- OS
- Windows 10 Home, Windows 11 Home, Windows 10 Pro, Windows 11 Pro
- Battery
- 48Wh, 3-cell
- Body material
- Aluminum, Magnesium alloy
- Dimensions
- 323.4 x 218.9 x 17.9 mm (12.73" x 8.62" x 0.70")
- Weight
- 1.20 kg (2.6 lbs)
- Ports and connectivity
- 1x USB Type-A
- 2.0
- 1x USB Type-A
- 3.2 Gen 1 (5 Gbps)
- 1x USB Type-C
- 3.2 Gen 2 (10 Gbps)
- Wi-Fi
- 802.11ax
- Bluetooth
- 5.0
- Audio jack
- 3.5 mm combo
- Features
- Fingerprint reader
- optional
- Web camera
- HD
- Backlit keyboard
- optional
- Microphone
- 2 Microphones
- Speakers
- Optical drive
- Security Lock slot
- Kensington lock
All Acer Swift 3 (SF314-42) configurations
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Office Work
Office Work should be used mostly by users who spend most of the time looking at pieces of text, tables or just surfing. This profile aims to deliver better distinctness and clarity by keeping a flat gamma curve (2.20), native color temperature and perceptually accurate colors.
Design and Gaming
This profile is aimed at designers who work with colors professionally, and for games and movies as well. Design and Gaming takes display panels to their limits, making them as accurate as possible in the sRGB IEC61966-2-1 standard for Web and HDTV, at white point D65.
Health-Guard
Health-Guard eliminates the harmful Pulse-Width Modulation (PWM) and reduces the negative Blue Light which affects our eyes and body. Since it’s custom tailored for every panel, it manages to keep the colors perceptually accurate. Health-Guard simulates paper so the pressure on the eyes is greatly reduced.
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CPU performance
Here you can find the price/performance difference between all the CPUs that come in the Acer Swift 3 (SF314-42) series.
Results are from the Cinebench 20 Multi-core test (the higher the score, the better)
GPU performance
Here you can find the price/performance difference between all the GPUs that come in the Acer Swift 3 (SF314-42) series.
Results are for the 3DMark: Fire Strike (Graphics) benchmark (the higher the score, the better)
Acer Swift 3 (SF314-42) in-depth review
Guys, if you are interested in thin and light notebooks, one of the decent choices on the market would be the Swift 3 series of Acer. Provided you want to buy such a device, you have some choices to make. And the biggest one is - do you go Intel or AMD. If this was happening a couple of months earlier we would have definitely said AMD, since the Ryzen 4000U processors totally annihilated Intel when it comes to ULV processors.However, since Intel released their Tiger Lake chips, which offered a significantly higher CPU and GPU performance than Ice Lake, things no longer stay as such. Yeste[...]
Pros
- Very cool and quiet under heavy load
- Reasonably comfortable keyboard with optional backlight
- Lack of PWM
- Comfortable viewing angles and good contrast ratio
- Efficient and powerful mobile Ryzen 4000U chips
Cons
- Covers only 50% of sRGB
- Memory is soldered to the motherboard
- No SD card reader on board
Games you can play on this laptop series
Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (Full HD) |
NORMAL |
HIGH |
VERY HIGH |
MAX |
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AMD Radeon RX Vega 5 | 44 FPS PLAY VIDEO | 46 FPS PLAY VIDEO | - PLAY VIDEO | - PLAY VIDEO |
AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 (R4000/5000, 15W) | 62 FPS PLAY VIDEO | 24 FPS PLAY VIDEO | - PLAY VIDEO | - PLAY VIDEO |
AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 (R4000/5000, 15W) | 60 FPS PLAY VIDEO | 21 FPS PLAY VIDEO | - PLAY VIDEO | - PLAY VIDEO |
Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (Full HD) |
LOW |
MED |
EPIC |
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AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 (R4000/5000, 15W) | 90 FPS PLAY VIDEO | - PLAY VIDEO | - PLAY VIDEO |
AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 (R4000/5000, 15W) | - PLAY VIDEO | - PLAY VIDEO | - PLAY VIDEO |
Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (Full HD) |
VERY LOW |
MED |
MAX |
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AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 (R4000/5000, 15W) | 186 FPS | 155 FPS | 148 FPS |
AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 (R4000/5000, 15W) | 182 FPS PLAY VIDEO | 153 FPS PLAY VIDEO | 140 FPS PLAY VIDEO |
AMD Radeon RX Vega 5 | 163 FPS PLAY VIDEO | 138 FPS PLAY VIDEO | 120 FPS PLAY VIDEO |
Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (Full HD) |
HIGH PERF |
HIGH QLT |
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AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 (R4000/5000, 15W) | 117 FPS PLAY VIDEO | 42 FPS PLAY VIDEO |
AMD Radeon RX Vega 5 | 86 FPS PLAY VIDEO | 28 FPS PLAY VIDEO |
Resolution: 1920 x 1080 (Full HD) |
LOW |
HIGH |
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AMD Radeon RX Vega 6 (R4000/5000, 15W) | 92 FPS PLAY VIDEO | 38 FPS PLAY VIDEO |
AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 (R4000/5000, 15W) | 79 FPS PLAY VIDEO | 38 FPS PLAY VIDEO |
AMD Radeon RX Vega 5 | 72 FPS PLAY VIDEO | 32 FPS PLAY VIDEO |