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.
ACER PREDATOR HELIOS 500 REVIEWS UPGRADE
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. You can’t do that on a thin and light gaming laptop. The Predator Helios 500 offers up to two M.2 slots and a 2.5-inch drive bay for up to 5TB of magnetic storage.įor RAM, the Predator Helios 500 features two memory modules tucked somewhere under the keyboard, with an open pair of SO-DIMM slots for another 16GB of RAM if you need it.
Most thin gaming laptops at best offer you two M.2 drives, but most give just one. There are good reasons for that bulk, though: performance and expansion. It measures 16.9 x 11.7 x 1.5 inches all around. It weighs 8.8 pounds not counting the 3-pound power brick. The Predator Helios 500 clearly falls into the latter group. There are these nouveau thin gaming laptops, and there are old-world hulky, thick laptops. Power for the laptop is a 230-watt brick that properly plugs into the back of the Helios 500, rather than on the side, where it could interfere with your mouse. Portsįor ports, the Predator Helios 500 features HDMI, DisplayPort, 3 USB 3.0 ports, Gigabit Ethernet and two Thunderbolt 2 ports. The Acer Predator Helios 500 features blue annodized cooling fans to give it that extra touch.
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