Tech Advisor – October 2019

6 TECH ADVISOR • OCTOBER 2019

REVIEW

side of the Predator Helios 300 houses two USB 2.

ports, along with a headphone jack.

On the left side you get a dedicated charging port,

Gigabit ethernet (using a Realtek ethernet chip), one

USB 3.1 Gen 1 Type-C (5Gb/s), one USB 3.0 Type-A,

and an SD card reader. The fact that there’s just

one USB-C port, and it’s not even Thunderbolt 3, is

disappointing, though not surprising for the price.

Performance

First up is Cinebench, which can show us performance

in short multi-core CPU tasks. As you can see, the

current model’s score is just a pinch faster than the

SpecialEdition’sscore,andjusta pinchslowerthan

theDellXPS 159570 and MSI GS65 – which all

featurethe same CPU.

The multi-core performance of the Acer Predator

Helios 300 in short-run multi-core tests is decent