The Acer Predator Helios 18 (2024) is classified as a gaming laptop with a physical footprint of 404mm wide by 311mm deep and a thickness of 28mm, giving it a total volume of approximately 3,518 cm³. At 3,250g, it sits firmly in the heavier end of the laptop spectrum, which is consistent with its active cooling design — it does not use a fanless configuration. The chassis includes a backlit keyboard as a standard feature, while weather sealing is not part of its build.
The Helios 18 features an 18″ IPS LCD panel with LED backlighting, running at a resolution of 2560 x 1600 pixels and a pixel density of 167 ppi. Its 240Hz refresh rate is a notable characteristic for this display class, enabling smoother motion rendering during gameplay. The screen does not include a touch layer or anti-reflection coating, and the system supports up to four simultaneous displays in total.
The processor runs across 32 threads with eight cores clocked at 2.2GHz and sixteen at 1.6GHz, reaching a turbo frequency of 5.8GHz, and the system ships with 32GB of DDR5 RAM expandable up to 192GB. Storage is handled by a 1TB NVMe SSD connected over PCIe 4.0, using flash-based technology throughout. On the graphics side, the GPU carries 12GB of GDDR6 VRAM, operates at a base clock of 1,350MHz with a boost up to 2,280MHz, and delivers 24.72 TFLOPS of floating-point performance alongside a texture rate of 386.3 GTexels/s and a pixel rate of 133.2 GPixel/s. The GPU is manufactured on a 5nm process and supports DirectX 12 Ultimate, multithreading, and 64-bit operation, while XeSS (XMX) is not supported.
In CPU benchmarking, the system scores 15,655 in Geekbench 6 multi-core and 2,680 in the single-core test, reflecting the processor's threading capacity relative to its per-core output. The overall PassMark result comes in at 45,332, with the single-threaded PassMark score sitting at 4,245. Graphics performance is represented by a PassMark G3D result of 26,235, capturing the GPU's rendering capability as measured by that benchmark.
Wired connectivity includes two USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A ports and one USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A port, alongside a USB Type-C port, though no USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C, USB 4, Thunderbolt 3, or Thunderbolt 4 ports are present. Video output is handled by a single HDMI port, with no DisplayPort, mini DisplayPort, or VGA connector available. Bluetooth 5.3 and Wi-Fi — covering Wi-Fi 5 (802.11ac) and Wi-Fi 4 (802.11n) — handle wireless communication, and AirPlay is also supported. A dedicated RJ45 Ethernet port provides wired network access, and an external memory slot is included for additional storage expansion.
The laptop is equipped with a 90Wh battery and carries a rated runtime of 5.5 hours. Sleep-and-charge USB ports are not included, and the machine does not use a MagSafe power adapter.
Audio output comes through stereo speakers with a 3.5mm headset jack for wired headphones, though Dolby Atmos and S/PDIF output are absent. A single microphone and a front-facing camera are built in, while fingerprint scanning, 3D facial recognition, and voice commands are not supported. On the graphics feature side, the laptop supports both ray tracing and DLSS, adding flexibility for compatible titles. Motion and location sensors — including a gyroscope, accelerometer, compass, and GPS — are not present, no stylus is included, and there is no optical disc drive.
The CPU is a laptop-type processor with a clock multiplier of 22, a maximum operating temperature of 100°C, and a Thermal Design Power (TDP) of 150W, featuring a 36MB L3 cache, dual memory channels supporting RAM speeds up to 5,600MHz, and big.LITTLE technology for hybrid core management; the multiplier is not unlocked, but NX bit support is present alongside a broad instruction set covering MMX, F16C, FMA3, AES, AVX, AVX2, SSE 4.1, and SSE 4.2. Integrated graphics with 32 execution units accompany the discrete GPU, which is built on the Ada Lovelace architecture with 7,424 shading units, 232 texture mapping units, and 80 render output units, running GPU memory at 2,250MHz over a 192-bit bus for a maximum bandwidth of 432 GB/s and an effective memory speed of 18,000MHz; the GPU contains approximately 35,800 million transistors, supports double precision floating point, multi-display output, and stereoscopic 3D, and does not carry LHR restrictions. API support extends to OpenCL 3, OpenGL 4.6, and ECC memory, while the PassMark DirectCompute result stands at 12,281.
