ACER Predator Helios Neo PHN18-71-78QM 18" - Core i7 i7-14650HX, RAM 16GB, SSD 512GB, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 8GB
Step into next-gen gaming with the AI-ready Helios 18, powered by NVIDIA DLSS 3.5. Unleash peak performance with cutting-edge cooling, a radiant Mini LED1 display, and the precision of MagKey 3.0 keycaps: MagClick and MagSpeed. GAME WITHOUT COMPROMISE. Intel® Core™ processors (14th Gen) feature newly optimized hybrid architecture and industry-leading technology that enables you to go beyond gaming and creation. With Intel, you can do it all. From progressing in the game to advancing in real life, Intel empowers you to be your best self. NVIDIA® GEFORCE RTX™ 40 SERIES LAPTOPS GPUS NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 40 Series Laptop GPUs are beyond fast for gamers and creators. They're powered by the ultra-efficient NVIDIA Ada Lovelace architecture, which delivers a quantum leap in both performance and AI-powered graphics. NVIDIA DLSS 3.5 Powered by the new fourth-gen Tensor Cores and Optical Flow Accelerator on GeForce RTX 40 Series GPUs, DLSS 3.5 uses AI to create additional high-quality frames. RAY TRACING The Ada architecture unleashes the full glory of ray tracing, which simulates how light behaves in the real world. With the power of RTX 40 Series Laptops and third-gen RT Cores, you can experience incredibly detailed virtual worlds like never before. NVIDIA MAX-Q TECHNOLOGIES A suite of AI-powered technologies which optimize every aspect of a laptop—the GPU, CPU, memory, thermals, software, display, and more—to deliver powerful devices that are thin and quiet. RTX FOR AI Discover the RTX AI advantage. From enhanced creativity and ultra-efficient productivity to blisteringly fast gaming, the ultimate in AI power on Windows PCs is on NVIDIA RTX™ and GeForce RTX™. AI FOR GAMING Level up your gaming experience with RTX. An AI-powered boost gives you maximum performance in over 300 games and apps thanks to DLSS 3.5. AI FOR CREATING Supercharge your content creation with over 100 AI-enabled and RTX accelerated creative apps—including the Adobe Creative Cloud suite, Blender, Blackmagic Davinci Resolve, OBS Studio, and more. Transform your workflows with the NVIDIA Studio suite of AI tools, and fast-track your creativity with next-gen tech including DLSS and OptiX. AI FOR 3D Goodbye soul-crushing render times and grinding compositing. Hello RTX and AI-accelerated workflows and next-level 3D design concepts. AI brings revolutionary features and performance to 3D creative apps like NVIDIA Omniverse™, Adobe Substance, Adobe Painter, Blender, and Unreal Engine. Get the AI advantage with real-time viewport rendering, upscaling, ray reconstruction, and more. A WORLD FULL OF LIGHT Dive into a sprawling 18-inch neon-lit vista with a 16:10 aspect ratio. The WQXGA1 pulsates at a lightning-fast 240Hz refresh1 while the DCI-P3 100%1 color gamut gives you true-to-life color. Support for NVIDIA® G-SYNC® and Advanced Optimus keeps your frames flawless and tear-free. UNLOCK THE MYSTERY Navigate the cryptic alleys of the PredatorVerse. Our unique pattern holds a riddle from the neon future. Are you ready to decrypt and discover where it leads? MAINTAIN MAX PERFORMANCE Stay frosty in the heat of battle. 5th Gen AeroBlade™ 3D Fan Technology, liquid metal thermal grease, and vector heat pipes maintain peak performance, even when the chase gets intense. TOTAL CONTROL Seize control with Predator Sense. Tailor your RGB keyboard illumination over four zones, toggle among four gameplay-optimized operation modes, and regulate fan speeds while monitoring device performance. AI-ASSISTED NOISE REDUCTION Elevate your team coordination with PurifiedVoice 2.0. This cutting-edge feature harnesses the power of AI to filter out ambient noises, ensuring pristine voice clarity. Combined with the three-microphone design and beamforming, your voice takes center stage, isolating from other background sounds. DISCOVER YOUR NEXT FAVORITE GAME Play over 100 high-quality games with friends on your PC, console, phone or tablet for one low monthly price.2 With games added all the time, there’s always something new to play. Windows 11 Home 64-bit Intel Core i7-14650HX (30MB Cache) 45.7 cm (18") WUXGA 1920 x 1200, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 (8GB GDDR6) 16GB DDR5-SDRAM & 512GB SSD
Step into next-gen gaming with the AI-ready Helios 18, powered by NVIDIA DLSS 3.5. Unleash peak performance with cutting-edge cooling, a radiant Mini LED1 display, and the precision of MagKey 3.0 keycaps: MagClick and MagSpeed.
GAME WITHOUT COMPROMISE.
Intel® Core™ processors (14th Gen) feature newly optimized hybrid architecture and industry-leading technology that enables you to go beyond gaming and creation. With Intel, you can do it all. From progressing in the game to advancing in real life, Intel empowers you to be your best self.
NVIDIA® GEFORCE RTX™ 40 SERIES LAPTOPS GPUS
NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 40 Series Laptop GPUs are beyond fast for gamers and creators. They're powered by the ultra-efficient NVIDIA Ada Lovelace architecture, which delivers a quantum leap in both performance and AI-powered graphics.
NVIDIA DLSS 3.5
Powered by the new fourth-gen Tensor Cores and Optical Flow Accelerator on GeForce RTX 40 Series GPUs, DLSS 3.5 uses AI to create additional high-quality frames.
RAY TRACING
The Ada architecture unleashes the full glory of ray tracing, which simulates how light behaves in the real world. With the power of RTX 40 Series Laptops and third-gen RT Cores, you can experience incredibly detailed virtual worlds like never before.
NVIDIA MAX-Q TECHNOLOGIES
A suite of AI-powered technologies which optimize every aspect of a laptop—the GPU, CPU, memory, thermals, software, display, and more—to deliver powerful devices that are thin and quiet.
RTX FOR AI
Discover the RTX AI advantage. From enhanced creativity and ultra-efficient productivity to blisteringly fast gaming, the ultimate in AI power on Windows PCs is on NVIDIA RTX™ and GeForce RTX™.
AI FOR GAMING
Level up your gaming experience with RTX. An AI-powered boost gives you maximum performance in over 300 games and apps thanks to DLSS 3.5.
AI FOR CREATING
Supercharge your content creation with over 100 AI-enabled and RTX accelerated creative apps—including the Adobe Creative Cloud suite, Blender, Blackmagic Davinci Resolve, OBS Studio, and more. Transform your workflows with the NVIDIA Studio suite of AI tools, and fast-track your creativity with next-gen tech including DLSS and OptiX.
AI FOR 3D
Goodbye soul-crushing render times and grinding compositing. Hello RTX and AI-accelerated workflows and next-level 3D design concepts. AI brings revolutionary features and performance to 3D creative apps like NVIDIA Omniverse™, Adobe Substance, Adobe Painter, Blender, and Unreal Engine. Get the AI advantage with real-time viewport rendering, upscaling, ray reconstruction, and more.
A WORLD FULL OF LIGHT
Dive into a sprawling 18-inch neon-lit vista with a 16:10 aspect ratio. The WQXGA1 pulsates at a lightning-fast 240Hz refresh1 while the DCI-P3 100%1 color gamut gives you true-to-life color. Support for NVIDIA® G-SYNC® and Advanced Optimus keeps your frames flawless and tear-free.
UNLOCK THE MYSTERY
Navigate the cryptic alleys of the PredatorVerse. Our unique pattern holds a riddle from the neon future. Are you ready to decrypt and discover where it leads?
MAINTAIN MAX PERFORMANCE
Stay frosty in the heat of battle. 5th Gen AeroBlade™ 3D Fan Technology, liquid metal thermal grease, and vector heat pipes maintain peak performance, even when the chase gets intense.
TOTAL CONTROL
Seize control with Predator Sense. Tailor your RGB keyboard illumination over four zones, toggle among four gameplay-optimized operation modes, and regulate fan speeds while monitoring device performance.
AI-ASSISTED NOISE REDUCTION
Elevate your team coordination with PurifiedVoice 2.0. This cutting-edge feature harnesses the power of AI to filter out ambient noises, ensuring pristine voice clarity. Combined with the three-microphone design and beamforming, your voice takes center stage, isolating from other background sounds.
DISCOVER YOUR NEXT FAVORITE GAME
Play over 100 high-quality games with friends on your PC, console, phone or tablet for one low monthly price.2 With games added all the time, there’s always something new to play.
- Windows 11 Home 64-bit
- Intel Core i7-14650HX (30MB Cache)
- 45.7 cm (18") WUXGA 1920 x 1200, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 (8GB GDDR6)
- 16GB DDR5-SDRAM & 512GB SSD
Packaging content
General
- Summary: Acer Predator Helios Neo 18 PHN18-71. Product type: Laptop, Form factor: Clamshell. Processor family: Intel® Core™ i7, Processor model: i7-14650HX. Display diagonal: 45.7 cm (18"), HD type: WUXGA, Display resolution: 1920 x 1200 pixels. Internal memory: 16 GB, Internal memory type: DDR5-SDRAM. Total storage capacity: 512 GB, Storage media: SSD. On-board graphics card model: Intel® UHD Graphics, Discrete graphics card model: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060. Operating system installed: Windows 11 Home. Product colour: Black
- NB Family name: Predator
Weight & dimensions
- Depth: 311.6 mm
- Height: 29.1 mm
- Weight: 3.4 kg
- Width: 404 mm
Security
- Cable lock slot: Yes
- Cable lock slot type: Kensington
Power
- DC-in jack: Yes
- USB Power Delivery (USB PD): Yes
- USB Type-C charging port: Yes
Battery
- Battery technology: Lithium-Ion (Li-Ion)
Software
- Operating system architecture: 64-bit
- Operating system installed: Windows 11 Home
Keyboard
- Keyboard backlit: Yes
- Numeric keypad: Yes
- Pointing device: Touchpad
Ports & interfaces
- Combo headphone/mic port: Yes
- Ethernet LAN (RJ-45) ports: 1
- HDMI ports quantity: 1
- HDMI version: 2.1
- USB 3.2 Gen 1 (3.1 Gen 1) Type-A ports quantity: 1
- USB 3.2 Gen 2 (3.1 Gen 2) Type-A ports quantity: 2
- USB 3.2 Gen 2 (3.1 Gen 2) Type-C ports quantity: 2
Network
- Antenna type: 2x2
- Bluetooth: Yes
- Ethernet LAN: Yes
- Ethernet LAN data rates: 10,100,1000,2500 Mbit/s
- Mobile network connection: No
- Top Wi-Fi standard: Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax)
- Wi-Fi standards: Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax)
Camera
Audio
- Built-in microphone: Yes
- Number of built-in speakers: 2
Graphics
- Discrete graphics card: Yes
- Discrete graphics card memory: 8 GB
- Discrete graphics card model: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060
- Discrete graphics memory type: GDDR6
- On-board GPU manufacturer: Intel
- On-board graphics card: Yes
- On-board graphics card family: Intel® UHD Graphics
- On-board graphics card model: Intel® UHD Graphics
Storage
- Card reader integrated: Yes
- Compatible memory cards: MicroSD (TransFlash)
- Number of SSDs installed: 1
- NVMe: Yes
- Optical drive type: No
- SSD capacity: 512 GB
- SSD form factor: M.2
- SSD interface: PCI Express 4.0
- Storage media: SSD
- Total SSDs capacity: 512 GB
- Total storage capacity: 512 GB
Memory
- Internal memory: 16 GB
- Internal memory type: DDR5-SDRAM
- Maximum internal memory: 32 GB
- Memory form factor: SO-DIMM
- Memory slots: 2x SO-DIMM
Design
- Colour name: Abyssal Black
- Form factor: Clamshell
- Market positioning: Gaming
- Product colour: Black
- Product type: Laptop
Display
- Display diagonal: 45.7 cm (18")
- Display resolution: 1920 x 1200 pixels
- HD type: WUXGA
- LED backlight: Yes
- Native aspect ratio: 16:10
- Touchscreen: No
Processor
- Efficient cores: 8
- Efficient-core base frequency: 1.6 GHz
- Efficient-core Max Turbo Frequency: 3.7 GHz
- Maximum turbo power: 157 W
- Performance cores: 8
- Performance-core base frequency: 2.2 GHz
- Performance-core Max Turbo Frequency: 5.2 GHz
- Processor base power: 55 W
- Processor boost frequency: 5.2 GHz
- Processor cache: 30 MB
- Processor cache type: Smart Cache
- Processor cores: 16
- Processor family: Intel® Core™ i7
- Processor generation: Intel® Core™ i7 (14th gen)
- Processor manufacturer: Intel
- Processor model: i7-14650HX
- Processor threads: 24
