Acer predator helios 500 has a version with radeon rx vega 56
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New information points to a variant of the Acer Predator Helios 500 gaming laptop with an AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 graphics card, which poses a challenge in dissipating the heat generated by this hungry GPU.
Acer Predator Helios 500 will also be available with AMD Radeon RX Vega 56
It has taken a long time for a brave person to dare to put an AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 inside a laptop, it is the Acer Predator Helios 500, whose version known so far mounts a GeForce GTX 1070. Both cards render very similar, 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, posing an engineering challenge.
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It is expected that this Radeon RX Vega 56 comes underclocked to reduce its power consumption, and with it the amount of heat generated, which would make its performance end up being lower than the GeForce GTX 1070 even consuming more. Thus, 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 be the first high-end notebook with 100% AMD hardware in many years.
The Intel + Nvidia option will include a G-Sync module, while the AMD version will come with FreeSync, so this second one should be cheaper. In both cases there is a panel at 1080p resolution and a refresh rate of 144 Hz.
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