The World's Most Powerful Laptop!

It's getting hot! The Acer Predator X is the extremely powerful "luxury edition" of the regular Predator 17. Are the components well-balanced and is the performance sufficient for a spot in our Top 10 ranking?

For the original German review, see here.

 

Manufacturers started to update their Skylake models right after Intel launched the new Kaby Lake generation. The performance increase is not huge in this generation, but a couple of MHz can make a difference when it is about the performance crown for powerful gaming laptops. The Acer Predator 17 X GX-792-76DL is equipped with a very powerful Intel Core i7-7820HK. 16 GB RAM is still sufficient for a gaming laptop right now. The most important component for gaming is the graphics card, and our test sample is equipped with the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 (Laptop), which ensures good gaming performance. The display features the Full HD resolution and supports Nvidia's G-Sync technology. The storage solution consists of an SSD and HDD.

Acer offers multiple SKUs that can differ in terms of memory or storage devices, and the Acer Predator 17 X is also available with a UHD panel. All of this comes at a price though. Our test sample retails for almost 3,000 Euros (~$3225) at the time of writing. The comparison devices are mostly listed in our Gaming Top 10 ranking, but we excluded SLI notebooks and also focused on 17-inch systems.