Acer refreshes its gaming laptops with Intel’s impressive 6-core CPUs

The competition between AMD, Nvidia, and Intel has led to a lot of innovation in the Windows laptop space. The slim-style ultrabooks are better than ever thanks to devices like Dells’ XPS13, but it’s the gaming and workstation notebooks that are seeing the biggest leap in 2018. And Acer is one of the manufacturers taking advantage of these technological advancements.

During a presentation in Lincoln Center in New York City today, Acer rolled out multiple new computers, such as its Predator Helios 500 and Helios 300 gaming laptops. The headline components inside these devices are the 6-core 12-thread 8th-gen Intel Core CPUs that drastically improve computational power in productivity apps and video-related processing. The Helios 500 is a 17-inch notebook with the 8th-gen Intel Core i9 with 6 cores and a 4.8 GHz clock speed as well as an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070. The Helios 300 features the slightly slower 8th-gen Intel Core i7 with 6 cores and a 4.3 GHz clock speed. The Helios 300 also gets a GeForce GTX 1060 to power its 15-inch screen. Both Helios laptops have displays that refresh at 144 Hz.