#ASUS PREDATOR HELIOS 500 1080P#

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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