The Acer Predator Helios 18 AI (2025) is a gaming laptop with a physical footprint of 401mm wide by 307mm deep and a thickness of 29mm, resulting in a total volume of around 3,570cm³. It weighs 3,500g and relies on an active cooling setup rather than a fanless design. The chassis is not weather-sealed or built to rugged standards, positioning it as a standard indoor gaming machine. A backlit keyboard is included, adding usability in low-light conditions.
The Acer Predator Helios 18 AI (2025) features an 18-inch IPS LCD with LED backlighting, delivering a 3840x2400 resolution at 251 ppi for a dense, detailed image. The panel runs at a 120Hz refresh rate and includes an anti-reflection coating to reduce glare, though it does not support touch input. The system is capable of driving up to four displays simultaneously.
The Acer Predator Helios 18 AI (2025) is equipped with a 24-thread CPU built on a 4nm process, configured with 8 cores at 2.7GHz and 16 cores at 2.1GHz, reaching up to 5.4GHz in turbo mode, with multithreading and 64-bit support enabled. System memory stands at 64GB of DDR5 RAM, expandable to a maximum of 192GB, while storage is handled by a 2TB NVMe SSD operating over PCIe 5. On the graphics side, the GPU carries 24GB of GDDR7 VRAM, runs at a base clock of 990MHz with a turbo of 1,515MHz, and delivers 31.8 TFLOPS of floating-point performance alongside a texture rate of 496.9 GTexels/s and a pixel rate of 193.9 GPixel/s, with full DirectX 12 Ultimate support; XeSS (XMX) is not supported.
In CPU benchmark testing, the Acer Predator Helios 18 AI (2025) achieves a PassMark multi-core score of 56,426, reflecting its multi-threaded processing capacity, while its single-core PassMark score of 4,723 indicates the per-core computational throughput of the processor.
The Acer Predator Helios 18 AI (2025) offers a well-rounded set of wired and wireless connectivity options. USB ports include two USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C, two USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A, and one USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A, with no USB 4, Thunderbolt 3, Thunderbolt 4, or USB 2.0 ports present. Video output is handled by a single HDMI port, while DisplayPort, mini DisplayPort, and VGA outputs are absent. For wired networking there is one RJ45 port, and wireless connectivity reaches up to Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be) with backwards compatibility through Wi-Fi 4, alongside Bluetooth 5.4. The laptop also includes an external memory card slot and supports AirPlay.
The Acer Predator Helios 18 AI (2025) is fitted with a 99Wh battery rated for approximately 5.5 hours of use. The laptop supports sleep-and-charge via its USB ports, allowing connected devices to be charged even when the system is powered off or in sleep mode. A MagSafe power adapter is not included.
The Acer Predator Helios 18 AI (2025) includes stereo speakers, a 3.5mm headset jack, and a single built-in microphone for audio input and output, though it lacks Dolby Atmos and an S/PDIF port. A front camera is present, while biometric options such as a fingerprint scanner and 3D facial recognition are not available, and voice commands are not supported. On the graphics feature side, the laptop supports both ray tracing and DLSS. Motion and location sensors — including a gyroscope, accelerometer, compass, and GPS — are all absent, and no stylus or optical disc drive is included.
The Acer Predator Helios 18 AI (2025) is built around a laptop-class CPU in a BGA 2114 socket with a 95W TDP, a clock multiplier of 27, an unlocked multiplier, and Turbo Boost version 2, with a maximum operating temperature of 105°C. It employs big.LITTLE technology and supports a broad instruction set including MMX, AVX2, AES, FMA3, F16C, SSE 4.1, and SSE 4.2, alongside integrated graphics and an NX bit for hardware-level security. The processor features 36MB of L3 cache and 40MB of L2 cache, with dual-channel memory support and a maximum RAM speed of 6,400MHz. On the GPU side, the Blackwell architecture operates without LHR restrictions and is backed by Intel Resizable BAR, a 256-bit memory bus running at an effective speed of 25,400MHz, and a maximum memory bandwidth of 811.5 GB/s. The GPU counts 10,496 shading units, 328 texture mapping units, and 128 ROPs, supports ECC memory, double-precision floating point, stereoscopic 3D, and multi-display output, and is compatible with OpenCL 3 and OpenGL 4.6.
