Acer equips Predator Triton and Helios laptops with Nvidia GeForce RTX 30 GPUs

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Acer is renewing its Predator Helios and Triton laptops. The manufacturer provides these models with GeForce RTX 30 GPUs, among other things. The Triton variant will receive an Intel Tiger Lake processor with a 35W TDP. The Acer Nitro 5 also gets an update with Tiger Lake H35 CPU.

Acer equips the Predator Triton 300 with an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 video card with 6GB of video memory. This 18mm thin gaming laptop, which weighs 1.7kg, will also receive an Intel Core i7-11375H CPU, which Intel announced earlier this week. This CPU has a higher TDP than the current Tiger Lake Core i7 chips and therefore achieves higher clock speeds; according to Intel, the chip achieves a boost speed of 5GHz on a single core.

The Triton 300 SE also has a 14″ screen with full-HD resolution and a refresh rate of 144Hz. Acer provides the laptop with Thunderbolt 4, USB 3.2 Gen 2 and an HDMI connector. The Triton 300 SE also supports Wi-Fi 6 with an AX1650 chip from Killer.The laptop will be available in the Benelux in ‘the first half of the second quarter’ and will have a suggested retail price from 1499 euros.

The Acer Predator Triton 300 SE (left) and Predator Helios 300

Acer’s Helios series is also being updated. The Helios 300 is equipped with up to an RTX 3080 video card from Nvidia and 32GB DDR4 memory. This laptop has an older Intel Comet Lake-H processor, which has four cores with hyperthreading. The laptop has a 240Hz screen with IPS panel. Acer claims a response time of 3ms. The laptop will be available in April from 1399 euros.

Acer’s Nitro 5 series will also feature Intel Tiger Lake CPUs with 35W TDP. The Nitro 5 laptops also get GeForce GTX video cards from Nvidia and come with 15″ or 17″ screens. In addition, Acer provides a maximum of 32GB DDR4-3200 memory. The Nitro 5 laptops have room for two M.2 SSDs. The screen has a resolution of 1920×1080 pixels with a 144Hz refresh rate. The claimed response time is 3ms. The 17″ variant will be released in May from 999 euros. The 15″ model will be released in the second quarter of this year from 899 euros.

The Acer Nitro 5 laptop with Intel Tiger Lake H35 CPU

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