Acer Aspire 5253, low cost notebook with AMD E-350 APU

The notebook we're going to review belongs to the most successful line of Acer, i.e. Aspire. The model is equipped with a processor belonging to the AMD Fusion Zacate family dedicated to mainstream notebooks. The Aspire 5253 E354G50Mnkk is the perfect notebook to enjoy the time with movies and to tackle any job, also thanks to low power consumption, allowing high autonomy.

Acer Aspire 5253: Synthetic benchmarks

Once turned on, the Acer notebook takes about 30 seconds to get into Windows 7, a very good access time given the technical characteristics. First of all, we ascertain the hardware specifications through the CPU-Z and GPU-Z softwares.

In addition, through the control panel, we see with the "System Performance" utility the vote that the Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium operating system attaches to the PC. As you can see from below the lowest grade is attributed to the AMD E-350 CPU.

We then performed tests to measure the performance of each hardware component. We would like to clarify that this is not a gaming PC, so we have not found it necessary to test the latest generation video games. Specifically, the tests are:

  • 3D Mark Vantage (Entry, Performance, and High)
  • 3D Mark 11 (Entry and Performance)
  • AIDA 64 (cache and memory)
  • Cinebench R11.5
  • Super PI (1M and 32M)
  • ATTO Disk Benchmark
  • Crystal Disk Mark
  • HD Tune

Recall also that the tests were performed using the external power supply and not with the included battery.