AMD hardware can’t beat Nvidia in ray tracing (the technical term for rendering realistic lighting effects in real-time), which is supported by an increasingly large number of games. This laptop’s AMD Radeon RX6800M graphics led it to victory over the Acer across our test suite, sometimes by a wide margin (it averaged 25 fps quicker in Metro Exodus, for example). One laptop the Helios 300 doesn’t beat is the new Asus ROG Strix G15 AMD Advantage Edition. This includes an Acer Predator Triton 500 we reviewed with Nvidia RTX 2080 SUPER, an Asus TUF A15 with Nvidia RTX 2060, and a Razer Blade Advancedwith Nvidia RTX 2080 Super MAX-Q. These figures beat most gaming laptops we’ve tested in the past year. 60 frames a second is the minimum to hit these days, but obviously the RTX 3070 blows right past that.
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But more important than synthetic benchmark scores is the actual in-game performance Metro Exodus exceeded 72 frames per second (fps) at Ultra detail and 1080p resolution, while Shadow of the Tomb Raider averaged 102 fps at Highest settings and the same resolution. 3DMark’s Fire Strike test, which measures gaming graphics performance, spat out a score of 20407, one of the highest we've recorded to-date. We saw strong scores across our entire range of benchmarks.
Intel’s six-core processor isn’t that impressive, especially considering what AMD’s Ryzen 5000-series brings in comparison, but the Nvidia GPU easily makes up for its shortcomings. It’s powered by an Intel Core i7-10750H processor and Nvidia RTX 3070 mobile graphics. You can find the other (relatively) banal specifications on the official Acer store page, which is also where the laptop can be purchased right away.Serious performance means serious air vents.Ī gaming laptop isn’t much use if it doesn’t perform, but Acer’s Predator Helios 300 has plenty of go. The 17.3-inch screen is good up to 120Hz and delivers DisplayHDR 1000-grade HDR output backed by 512 backlight dimming zones. Meanwhile, all this gaming muscle is complemented by an AUO-made 4K Mini LED display. MagForce optical switches allow proportional steering in racing games thanks to analogue input control The same feature can also be used in shooters to transition from walking to running by merely modulating the pressure exerted on the WASD keys-all without using the modifier (Shift) key. To cite a relevant example, this allows more precise proportional steering control in racing games. These switches can be tuned to deliver analogue-like linear modulation of input-much like the analogue sticks and index triggers found in console gamepads. But the real icing on the cake is the MagForce optical mechanical switches. The top-end Predator Helios 500 laptop also ships with a massive 64GB of DDR4 3200Mhz RAM. MagForce Mechanical Switches Allow Analogue Control
Hit us up in the comments section if you would like for us to put the laptop through its paces. It will be interesting to find out how the laptop handles the CPU package power levels and exactly what sort of optimisations Acer has made to the otherwise conservative PL1, PL2, and Tau limits (for laptops), which determine the power limits for current-gen Intel processors.
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