This makes the light hard to see in well-lit environments, and there’s no brightness adjustment - just on or off. Also, the light doesn’t shine through the key caps, just from underneath the keys. The keys are RGB backlit, but you can only select colors in four zones, not on a per-key basis. The keyboard and touchpad on this Predator Helios look the same as those found on the Helios model. When watching BBC-shot HD drone footage of Scotland on YouTube, the blue and turquoise of coastal waters and the green in the grass and trees looked a little dull. The AMD Predator’s display also covers 114 percent of the sRGB color gamut, making it less vivid than the 133-percent premium gaming average, though a bit better than the previous Predator Helios and the Alienware 17 R5. Still, the 352-nit brightness of the panel on the Alienware 17 R5 was noticeably brighter. The screen’s average brightness of 303 nits outshines the 276 nits of the G-Sync panel in the other Helios 500 model, as well as the 280-nit category average. With an eight- core, 16- thread Ryzen 7 2700, 16GB of RAM and a 256GB PCIe/NVMe SSD the Predator isn’t just for gaming it’s also a powerful productivity machine. And of course cranking up the CPU is going to mean extra heat and louder fans. But given that this Predator nearly always outpaced our similarly priced comparison laptops, we didn’t feel the need to do so. You can, though, fire up the installed AMD Ryzen Master and overclock the CPU, just like you can on a desktop.
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The AMD-powered Predator Helios 500 doesn’t have the same one-click overclocking feature in the Acer PredatorSense software that the Intel/Nvidia-based version does. The GPU ran at an average temperature of 67.1 Celsius (153 Fahrenheit). The CPU’s first core reached an average clock speed of 2.9 GHz (not all cores were used by the game) and a temperature of 68.6 degrees Celsius (155 degrees Fahrenheit). The average frame rate was 69 fps, and it stayed within 1 frame on all 10 runs. To test sustained performance, we ran the Metro: Last Light benchmark 10 times, which simulates about half an hour of gaming. The laptop earned a score of 10.7 on the SteamVR performance test, just edging past the category average of 10.6. If you have an Oculus Rift or HTC Vive, it should work perfectly well with the Helios. At an average of 99 fps, it also well outpaced the 76 fps category average.
On Grand Theft Auto V (1080p, Very High), the AMD-powered Predator again left the Intel/Nvidia model far behind. And that smoothness was aided by the laptop’s FreeSync display, which (like Nvidia’s competing G-Sync tech) keeps screen tearing and stuttering in check. I played 2016’s Doom at Ultra settings and 1080p, and the game ran silky-smooth, varying between 68 and 110 frames per second (fps). The AMD-powered Helios is easily powerful enough to play modern titles at High settings, including VR games.
And for the most part, this machine doesn’t disappoint. With a powerful desktop-class CPU (AMD’s Ryzen 7 2700) and GPU (an AMD Radeon Vega 56), this model of Acer’s Predator is poised to impress, going up against similarly priced models which tend to sport mobile Intel CPUs and Nvidia GTX 1070 graphics (like the previous Predator Helios 500 we tested).
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Killer DoubleShot Pro Wireless-AC 1550 802.11ac Wi-Fi, Ethernet jackĢ.1 Speaker configuration, with subwoofer headphone jack, microphone jackġ6.9 x 11.7 x 1.5 inches / 429.2 x 297.2 x 38.1 mm
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