Acer Predator Helios 18 AI Series
Processor: Intel Arrow Lake Ultra 9 275HXGraphics Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop
Display: 18.00 inch
Weight: 3.2kg
Price: 4050, 6000 euro
Average of 7 scores (from 13 reviews)
Acer Predator Helios 18 AI PH18-73
Specifications
Notebook: Acer Predator Helios 18 AI PH18-73Processor: Intel Arrow Lake Ultra 9 275HX
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop 24576 MB
Display: 18.00 inch, 16:10, 3840 x 2400 pixels
Weight: 3.2kg
Price: 6000 euro
Links: Acer homepage Acer notebook section
Price comparison
Average Score:
Reviews
Source: Jarrod'sTech
Acer’s Helios 18 features an 18 inch Mini-LED screen, 4 RAM slots, 3 M.3 slots, lots of RGB, and even snap-on mechanical keys. But bigger isn’t always better, there are some serious issues you need to know about before you buy.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 10/29/2025
Source: PC Gamer
The verdict? The Acer Predator Helios 18 AI is a ludicrously powerful, unapologetically large, and surprisingly refined gaming laptop that does everything but make your coffee. If you've got the desk space, the budget, and the need for speed (and RAM), this is the beast to beat. Acer's Predator Helios 18 AI is a weapon of a gaming laptop with jaw-dropping specs and performance but is undeniably far more than any mere gamer needs.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 09/11/2025
Rating: Total score: 79%
Source: Techradar
The Acer Predator Helios 18 AI might be better characterized as a state-of-the-art concept rather than an actual consumer product: a showcase for what’s possible in today’s gaming laptops rather than a realistic purchase. But if you must have unparalleled performance and don’t mind sacrificing practical portability, the Predator Helios 18 AI has very few equals. You’ll need some seriously deep pockets, though, and there are plenty of better value alternatives out there.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 07/31/2025
Rating: Total score: 70% price: 50% performance: 100% mobility: 70% workmanship: 80%
Foreign Reviews
Source: Basic Tutorials
DE→ENSingle Review, online available, Medium, Date: 09/30/2025
Rating: Total score: 90% price: 80% performance: 80% display: 100% mobility: 80% workmanship: 100%
Source: Game IT
ES→ENSingle Review, online available, Short, Date: 07/29/2025
Rating: Total score: 100%
Source: Cowcotland
FR→ENSingle Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 09/30/2025
Source: ITC UA
RU→ENSingle Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 08/28/2025
Rating: Total score: 82% price: 80% performance: 95% display: 90% mobility: 70% workmanship: 80% ergonomy: 80%
Source: Techtimes.vn
VN→ENPositive: Powerful hardware; high gaming performance; excellent display; modern AI Features. Negative: Average battery life; noisy under loads.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 05/21/2025
Source: Jagat Review
ID→ENPositive: Powerful hardware; high gaming performance; excellent display. Negative: Heavy and bulky; average battery life; high price.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 07/26/2025
Acer Predator Helios 18 AI PH18-73, RTX 5080
Specifications
Notebook: Acer Predator Helios 18 AI PH18-73, RTX 5080Processor: Intel Arrow Lake Ultra 9 275HX
Graphics Adapter: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop 16384 MB
Display: 18.00 inch, 16:10, 2560 x 1600 pixels
Weight: 3.2kg
Price: 4050 euro
Links: Acer homepage Acer notebook section
Price comparison
Average Score:
Reviews
Source: XDA Developers
If you're looking for a portable gaming laptop in the RTX 50-series generation with some solid battery life and okay performance, the Razer Blade 16 (2025) is the lightest and thinnest RTX 5090 laptop you can buy right now. Alternatively, if you want a desktop replacement gaming laptop that can be a great video editing laptop and a great gaming laptop, the Lenovo Legion Pro 7i Gen 10 is going to have a better balance of general productivity performance and gaming power. But if you want a new gaming rig with a gorgeous Mini-LED display, powerful Intel and Nvidia performance, and a fantastic keyboard, the Helios 18 AI with the RTX 5080 is actually a pretty good deal.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 10/05/2025
Rating: Total score: 80%
Source: Mezha EN
As in many cases, the Acer Predator Helios 18 AI is not perfect. In the search for improved cooling, the manufacturer hardly got what he wanted, because the processor can heat up to over 100°C and fixes throttling. Fortunately, in everyday work and games this is almost imperceptible. On the other hand, this model offers many of its advantages in the form of an excellent display with mini LED backlight, an interesting design, good manipulators, a sufficient set of ports (including 5-gigabit RJ45), good speakers, etc. But the main advantage over many competitors will still be the ability to install up to 192 GB of RAM and three drives at once, which is practically impossible in many other cases.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 07/16/2025
Rating: Total score: 80%
Foreign Reviews
Source: PurePC
PL→ENPositive: Very comfortable keyboard; big screen; great display; powerful GPU; rich set of ports; Thunderbolt 5; high gaming performance. Negative: Overheats while using.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 06/27/2025
Source: Overclockers RU
RU→ENSingle Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 08/20/2025
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Acer: In 1976, the company was founded in Taiwan under the name Multitech and was renamed Acer or Acer Group in 1987. The product range includes, for example, laptops, tablets, smartphones, desktops, monitors, TVs and computer peripherals. Since 2007, the group has merged with Gateway Inc. and Packard Bell, which also market their own laptop product lines.
Acer computers are designed for a variety of purposes, including ultrabooks for mobile use, gaming laptops for gamers, affordable options for everyday tasks, and 2-in-1 convertible laptops for versatility. Acer's product portfolio also includes tablets that offer portable computing and multimedia capabilities.
These graphics cards are able to play the latest and most demanding games in high resolutions and full detail settings with enabled Anti-Aliasing.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop: The GeForce RTX 5090 Mobile uses the GB203 chip and utilizes 10,496 shaders / CUDA cores of the maximum 10,752 that the chip has. This makes the RTX 5090 Laptop more similar to the RTX 5080 desktop variant (same chip) than the Desktop RTX 5090 with 20,760 cores and higher clock rates.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Laptop: A fast graphics card from the Blackwell family for laptops that is based on the GB203 chip and uses 8,192 shaders and 16 GB GDDR7 graphics memory (256-bit graphics bus).
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
Intel Arrow Lake:
Ultra 9 275HX: Mobile high-end CPU for gaming notebooks based on the Arrow Lake architecture. Offers 24 cores consisting of 8 fast performance cores with up to 5.4 GHz and 16 smaller efficiency cores with up to 4.6 GHz clock speed. The CPU can access 40 MB L2 cache and 36 MB L3 cache and is specified with a TDP of 55 watts. The SoC integrates a small dedicated NPU called AI Boost with 13 TOPS (Int8) and optionally supports vPro Essentials.
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.
3.2 kg:
A laptop with this weight is comparatively heavy and less designed for mobility than for use at the desk. Therefore, the devices tend to shine less with battery life than with a large screen and higher performance.
3.2 kg:
83%: This rating is slightly above average, there are somewhat more devices with worse ratings. However, clear purchase recommendations look different.
» Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.
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