Deal | Monstrous Acer Predator Helios 16 with RTX 4080 and Core i9-13900HX drops to all-time low price at Best Buy

Acer’s high-end Predator Helios 16 gaming laptop is now down to $1,849.99 after a sweet 7.5% discount at Best Buy. According to slickdeal’s price history tool, the discounted price is the lowest rate the Predator Helios 16 has ever been at (Buy it now).

When it comes to specifications, the Acer Predator Helios 16 (Ph 16-71) on sale packs a 24-core Core i9-13900HX CPU, an RTX 4080 laptop GPU, 16 GB of DDR5 memory, and 1 TB of PCIe Gen 4 storage. Around the front, the laptop rocks a 16:10 16-inch IPS panel with a QHD+ resolution, a speedy 240 Hz refresh rate, G-SYNC support, and a claimed 500 nits of brightness. Other notable hardware details include a per-key RGB keyboard, an FHD webcam, Wi-Fi 6E, and a 90 Wh battery.

Beyond the specs, the Acer Predator Helios 16 is a superb machine in almost every way. We gave the laptop a “very good” rating of 90% in our review, as the notebook impressed us with its strong chassis boasting understated yet tasteful aesthetics, a robust port selection, and good inputs. Additionally, we also noted strong connection speeds in our testing.

On the display front, our Predator Helios 16 review unit which featured the same panel as the unit on sale proved to be quite good. We found the panel to cover 100% of the DCI-P3 gamut, almost 500 nits of average brightness, and an impressive 1,419:1 contrast ratio.

In other words, the Acer Predator Helios 16’s display will serve both gamers and content creators perfectly well.

Finally, the Acer Predator Helios 16 on offer should perform like a beast. The Core i9-13900HX is one of the fastest mobile CPUs on the market and is plenty enough for even the heaviest of tasks. Similarly, the RTX 4080 laptop is only beaten by the RTX 4090 laptop when it comes to gaming performance. For instance, the GPU is on par with the desktop RTX 4070 (Available on Amazon) in the 3DMark Time Spy benchmark and proved powerful enough for QHD gaming at elevated settings per our testing.

Put simply, if you are on the hunt for a high-end gaming laptop with some of the most powerful internals on the market and an excellent screen, the Acer Predator Helios 16 on sale is easy to recommend.