3/2/2024 0 Comments Acer predator helios 500 i9We’ll point you once again to our AMD vs. It’s actually the first time we’ve seen a high-end Radeon GPU in a laptop in a long, long time. The Predator Helios 500’s GPU is the other major consideration. If however, you intend to buy the laptop for thread-heavy tasks, you’ll want the Ryversion. If your work tends to not use that many threads, you’ll see more performance out of the Core i9 version of the Predator Helios 500. Look at what you do, and choose the CPU accordingly. The correct answer is: One is better than the other for certain workloads. If someone tells you one is better than the other, they’re giving you the wrong information. Get to the far right side though (more threads), and the 8-core Rydominates the work. The left side (fewer threads) gives the advantage to the 6-core Core i9. Using Cinebench R15, we can see the performance benefits each version has using 1 thread to 16 threads. You can see this summed up in the chart below. The Core i9 is favored for applications that use fewer threads, such as photo editing and many other content creation apps that don’t reach the level of optimization of 3D modelling or other workstation applications. Intel versions of this laptop, but for folks who don’t want to click it we’ll sum it up: The 8-core Rygenerally has the edge in multi-threaded tasks such as 3D modelling, video encoding and anything that can really use the power of 16 threads of computing. We already wrote a more extensive showdown of the AMD vs. Gordon Mah UngĪMD Ryand Radeon Vega 56 on the left with Intel Core i9-8950HK and GeForce GTX 1070 on the right. If you can’t find the cable, the easiest upgrade would be to add that second M.2 drive to the laptop. Acer customer forum posters have said it’s in the box. The easiest upgrade for the AMD version would be to just add a hard drive, but our unit didn’t feature the cable (it’s proprietary) to hook it up to the motherboard. You can also see that there’s room to add more RAM on both laptops if you want to go to 32GB. The Predator Helios 500 has a spot for another M.2 drive under the copper heat spreader on the right below. In fact, if you look at the picture below, you can can see the open hard drive bay in the Ryzen version (left) is empty, while the Core i9 (right) has its 2TB drive in place. It’s been a long time since we’ve seen so much red. For Intel you get a choice of a 6-core 8th-gen Core i7 8700H with a GeForce GTX 1070, or a 6-core Core i9-8950HK with GeForce GTX 1070. What’s Inside: Pick your poisonĪll that leads to the choices of the components you get for the Helios 500. Intel and Nvidia power the bulk of gaming laptops today. If you go with the Intel and Nvidia version you get G-Sync, while the AMD version nets you a FreeSync monitor. What’s likely more important for gamers is the refresh rate, which is 144Hz. That stands for Advanced Hyper Viewing-Angle, which is AU Optronics’ version of Sharp’s IPS technology, which some like to call “IPS-like” to avoid violating trademarks. Upon diving into the panel used in two of the laptops, we found them to be AU Optronics using AHVA. The screen is a Full HD (1920×1080) “ComfyView” 17.3-inch panel, which Acer describes as using IPS. There’s a set of six programmable macro keys along the top as well. The trackpad also features an LED outline and, again, has no issues. When we mean offend, we mean there’s no obvious weird placement of keys. The RGB keyboard is a dome-switched variety that doesn’t offend.
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