![]() The Helios 500 features HDMI 2.1 allowing you to plug into external displays such as 8K 60Hz, 4K 120 Hz and even a 10K display. Overall, the display is great and is a step above older gaming laptops with 1080p displays. The viewing angles are also wide, making it easy to game at different positions. Additionally, if you turn on HDR, the contrast levels provide a pleasant viewing experience. This provides sharp and clear images in dark scenes. The Mini LED technology ensures that colors are vibrant and accurate, and black levels are inky dark. The refresh rate provides smooth and responsive visuals, making it perfect for gaming. The 120Hz 4K Mini LED panel on the Helios 500 is a standout feature. Note: There’s a less expensive model of the Helios 500 (PH517-52-78A9) that has 1TB SSD and 16 GB DDR4 RAM. With games like Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, taking a massive 250GB worth of space, having a 2TB SSD makes a lot of sense. It ensures boot-up and load times are fast, providing a quick and responsive experience.įurthermore, Games are getting ridiculously big. And you still won’t have performance issues. You can have multiple chrome tabs open, music and YouTube playing in the background while playing Red Dead Redemption 2. Multitasking and running multiple programs at once is a breeze. The Predator Helios 500 sports 64GB of DDR4 memory and a 2 TB SSD. Acer Predator Helios 500 memory and storage ![]() Note: The Helios 500 can be configured with a less powerful RTX 3070 (8GB dedicated memory). While this is childs play to the Helios 500, it does show how demanding future games will become. The minimum recommended specs to run this game include a 6GB GTX 1060 video card and 16GB of RAM. Take a look at Returnal, an acclaimed Playstion exclusive coming to PC. Though this GPU is a couple of years old, it’s still powerful and relevant. The RTX 3080 has all the bells and whistles of a modern card, including Ray Tracing, NVIDIA DLSS (AI rendering to boost fps), 4K gaming, 3rd gen Tensor cores and more. Paired with a 120Hz 4K Mini LED display, it’s a match made in heaven. The laptop features an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 graphics card (16GB dedicated memory) allowing for smooth and responsive gaming visuals, even on the most demanding titles. Note: The Predator Helios 500 has a cheaper model that comes with an Intel Core i7-11800H processor. Whether it’s playing the latest AAA titles, video editing or 3D rendering, performance is not an issue. Rest assured, the Predator Helios 500 can handle anything you throw at it. The processor is an octa-core (8 cores and 16 threads) clocked at a speed of 2.6GHz and a Turbo boost clock speed of 5GHz. It’s equipped with an Intel Core i9-11980HK processor, which provides fast and efficient computing power. It is a reminder of quite how much the latest laptop graphics cards lag behind the desktop kind, though - there being a roughly 40 per cent performance difference here compared to the desktop-grade 3080.The Acer Predator Helios 500 is a powerhouse when it comes to performance. This is among the most powerful gaming laptops around, duking it out for a percentage point here and there with the best from Alienware and Asus. That may not sound too impressive, but you'll see much better results in the 70+fps range if you disable ray-tracing. The Predator Helios 500 lets you play it at around 55-60fps at 1080p with ray-tracing set to high, and resolution boosted to 4K using Nvidia DLSS. That game is Control, which is still one of the most punishing titles around. ![]() Apparently this laptop should be able to take the RTX 3080 to 165W, but we couldn't get it to do so using the standard modes, even when playing a game so taxing the frame rates were down below 20fps. This takes you from delivering around 120W to the graphics card to around 150W - although we did see very brief peaks above that. A laptop like the Lenovo Legion 7 can get you similar performance for almost half the price, which is kind of mad. It's overkill for most people, and not because we think you should all be happy playing games at Full HD at 30 frames per second. ![]() It's big and heavy, has just about the best specs you can get in a laptop, and costs an absolute fortune. The Acer Helios Predator 500 is a heavyweight laptop in several ways. That's so much cash that we're just going to have to largely forget the cost for most of this review or we'd end up mentioning it every other sentence. The Helios 500 in this config costs just about four grand. However, price will be the real stumbling block for most. Its performance is excellent, the keyboard is great, thermal control is top-notch and the screen is about as advanced as laptop displays get, even if you can get far higher refresh rates for less money. And as such, it's kind of brilliant at its craft. ![]() The Predator Helios 500 is a laptop 100 per cent focused on one thing: gaming. ![]()
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