New information points to a variant of the Acer Predator Helios 500 gaming notebook with an AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 graphics card, which poses a challenge in dissipating the heat generated by this hungry GPU.
It has taken a long time for a brave man to dare to put an AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 into a laptop, the Acer Predator Helios 500, whose familiar version is a GeForce GTX 1070. Both cards perform very similarly, but with an important difference. Nvidia’s proposal has a TDP of 120W, while AMD’s Vega 56 has a TDP of no less than 210W, a large amount of heat generated in a very small space, which poses an engineering challenge.
It is to be expected that this Radeon RX Vega 56 will come underclocked to reduce its power consumption, and thus the amount of heat generated, which would make its performance lower than the GeForce GTX 1070 even more consuming. So, the Acer Predator Helios 500 will come in two variants with Intel i9-8950HK + NVIDIA GTX 1070 and AMD Ryzen 7 2700 + AMD Radeon RX Vega 56. This will make it the first top-of-the-range laptop with 100% AMD hardware for years to come.
The Intel + Nvidia option will include a G-Sync module, while the AMD version will come with FreeSync, so the latter should be cheaper. In both cases, a panel with 1080p resolution and a refresh rate of 144 Hz is available.
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