Acer Predator Helios 300 Review – 144Hz IPS Laptop

We test real-world gaming performance with Deus Ex: Mankind Divided and Rise of the Tomb Raider, using each game's built-in benchmark. The tests are run at 1080p with three different in-game detail presets, checking for both minimum and average frame rate.

We can see here that the laptop delivers largely playable framerates across the board, with the very demanding graphics of Deus Ex: Mankind Divided just starting to push the laptop to its limits.

These are both graphically intensive games, though, so you can expect to be pushing much closer to the 144Hz refresh rate limit of this laptop's screen in less demanding games.

Taking a closer look at how performance compares to other laptops, in Deus Ex: Mankind Divided we again see the MSI GE63 holding a slight advantage despite having ostensibly the same core hardware. This further suggests the MSI's cooling solution is a little more capable.

Meanwhile the GTX 1070 Max-Q of the Razer Blade 15 shows just what you get when you pay the extra.

In Rise of the Tomb Raider we see a slightly odd performance trend as the Helios 300 consistently outperforms the MSI GE63 by a significant margin and come close to the performance of the Razer Blade 15. The only thing we can put this down to is that since we tested those other laptops there has been some performance-optimising either on the part of the game developer, Nvidia's drivers or both.

Regardless, we can see the general trend that matters here, whereby the Helios 300 delivers decent performance but of course you will get even more if you opt for a system with a GTX 1070 Max-Q graphics card.

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