Acer Predator Helios 500 unboxing and review

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This is the Acer Predator Helios 500.

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This is an expensive, high-end gaming laptop with plenty of power. The model being reviewed here, features these specs:

AMD RYZEN 7 2700 octa-core processor (up to 4.1GHz, 16MB L3 cache)
AMD Radeon RX Vega56, 8GB HBM2 VRAM
16GB DDR4 RAM
256GB PCIe NVMe SSD amd 1TB HDD
Killer DoubleShot Pro wireless support and Killer Ethernet E2500
HDMI 2.0 port and DisplayPort 1.3
Two USB Type-C ports
One USB 3.0 ports with one featuring power-off USB charging
17.3-inch FHD IPS LED backlit TFT LCD with built-in AMD FreeSync technology and 144Hz refresh rate

There are also Intel versions available.

Benchmarks

Time Spy https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/31027000?
Sky Diver https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/31027573?
Fire Strike - https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/31027729?
Fire Strike Extreme - https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/31027900?
Time Spy Extreme - https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/31028133?
Time Spy Stress test - https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/31028552?
Fire Strike Stress test - https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/31028795?

More specs and details from Acer on the three available versions:

https://www.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/predator-model/NH.Q3GAA.001
https://www.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/predator-model/NH.Q3NAA.005
https://www.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/predator-model/NH.Q3NAA.003


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Reviewed products:

Products featured may also have been sent for free for review/testing purposes. Often these have to be returned by me, but not always. I endeavour to avoid bias in my videos wherever possible and try to give honest, subjective opinions.



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