The Acer Triton 500 is a thin and powerful gaming laptop, but how well does it perform
in games? I’ll be testing out 20 games at all setting levels to show you how well it
performs, and also compare it against other gaming laptops afterwards to show you the
differences.
Just quickly before we jump into the benchmark results I’ll cover off the specs in my unit.
I’ve got an Intel i7-8750H CPU, Nvidia RTX 2060 graphics, and 16gb of memory running
in dual channel. The Triton 500 is also available with some different specs, for instance the
higher tier GPU models come with G-Sync. You can find examples and updated prices linked
in the description.
The Triton 500 allows you to enable turbo mode by pressing the button above the keyboard,
and basically this boosts the fan speed and raises the GPU power limit from 80 watts to
90 watts. I didn’t find turbo mode to perform any overclocking, however by default the GPU
memory was always overclocked by 120MHz. With the latest version 1.06 BIOS I also found
the CPU was undervolted by -0.1v, so due to these changes I’m expecting some decent
performance.
We’ll only be covering gaming performance in this video, so if you’re new to the channel,
you'll definitely want to get subscribed for the upcoming full review. Let’s start out
by going through all 20 games at all setting levels, then afterwards we’ll see how the
Triton 500 compares with some other laptops and see how it stacks up.
Battlefield 5 was tested in campaign mode, and I’ve got the results with RTX off in
purple and RTX on in green. It was mostly playable with RTX on at high settings, but
generally in a game like this you’ll want to preference higher frame rates. Personally
instead of RTX I’d rather use ultra settings with RTX off, which in my opinion looks better
than RTX on at lower settings while still giving decent FPS.
Battlefield 1 was also tested in campaign mode, and like always it’s running well
and performing better than the newer Battlefield 5 just shown, with over 100 FPS averages still
reached at ultra settings.
Apex Legends was tested with either all settings at maximum, or all settings on the lowest
possible values, as it doesn’t have predefined setting presets. It was playing fine even
with all settings at maximum, but it was possible to boost average FPS by 36% at minimum settings.
The Division 2 was tested with the built in benchmark. From what I’ve seen so far ultra
settings always seems to have much lower 1% low results compared to average FPS. Just
for a quick comparison, the Lenovo Y540 with 1660 Ti saw a similar 1% low, however the
Triton 500 with 2060 reached 13% higher average FPS.
Shadow of the Tomb Raider was tested with the built in benchmark, and the results here
are again decent at higher settings, but we’ll see how this game compares with other machines
soon.
Far Cry New Dawn was tested with the built in benchmark. This game seems to be fairly
CPU heavy, so the results aren’t really too different when compared to other machines
with lower or higher tier graphics.
Far Cry 5 was also tested with the built in benchmark, and the results were ahead of the
newer Far Cry New Dawn just covered, and we’ll see how this one compares to some other laptops
later. I’m expecting the CPU undervolt to improve performance.
Fortnite was tested with the replay feature, and at max settings it was running very well,
only just below 100 FPS for the 1% low at maximum epic settings, with even higher possible
at lower settings if needed.
Overwatch is another well optimized game and was tested in the practice range, again great
performance, only just below the 300 FPS frame cap at low, while epic settings was still
very smooth with over 100 FPS even for the 1% low.
Metro Exodus was tested using the built in benchmark, most parts of the game perform
a fair bit better than this, so don’t take these results as a good indication of what
to expect throughout the entire game, it’s more of a worst case but does let you perform
the same test to compare against.
CS:GO was tested using the Ulletical FPS benchmark, and as is pretty much always the case high
FPS from this test, and in line with most other laptops I’ve tested, given it depends
more on the CPU and most machines I’ve tested have the same CPU that’s expected.
Rainbow Six Siege was tested with the built in benchmark. Even with maximum ultra settings
we’re getting well above 100 FPS for the 1% low on a 100% render scale, so great performance
once more.
PUBG was tested using the replay feature, and the results were quite good for this test,
but realistically not all that different from a lower specced machine at the lower setting
levels, and we’re basically getting similar performance between very low and high settings.
Assassin’s Creed Odyssey was tested with the built in benchmark and seems to be a CPU
heavy test. At ultra high settings the 1% low wasn’t too different compared to the
thermally throttled Dell G5 I’ve tested in the past with same 2060 graphics, though
averages were higher. Performance at lower settings was below the ASUS Scar II with 2060
I recently tested too.
Dota 2 was tested playing in the middle lane with an average amount of action going on,
and the results were quite good here, noticeably above other 2060 machines I’ve tested both
in terms of 1% low and average FPS by a fair amount. I suspect this is due to the CPU undervolt
though, this game doesn’t really care about high end graphics.
Watch Dogs 2 uses a lot of resources, however 60 FPS averages at ultra settings is quite
a good result, considering I can play it just fine with a consistent 30 FPS, so no noticeable
issues for me while playing even at max settings.
Ghost Recon is another resource intensive game and was tested with the built in benchmark.
Generally we need quite powerful laptops to hit 60 FPS in this test at ultra, and we’re
a bit behind here, however still quite decent frame rates at lower setting levels.
The Witcher 3 was playing fine with ultra settings, while the 1% low is a fair bit behind
the average it’s not that bad, and again still a fair bit better compared to other
2060 laptops tested, with much higher possible at lower settings.
DOOM was tested using Vulkan, and is a game that pretty much always runs quite well on
modern hardware, so with our powerful specs here we’re getting great performance. Ultra
settings was playing perfectly smoothly, with over 100 for the 1% low.
Strange Brigade was another game that was tested with Vulkan but was tested with the
built in benchmark, and is another test that always provides high frame rates, with ultra
settings still reaching over 100 FPS with fairly high 1% lows compared to averages which
seems standard for this test.
Let’s also take a look at how this config of the Acer Triton 500 compares with other
laptops to see how it stacks up, use these results as a rough guide only as they were
tested at different times with different drivers.
In Battlefield 5 I’ve got the Triton 500 highlighted in red near similarly specced
machines. In this game it’s easily outperforming the other two RTX 2060 machines that I’ve
got here, the Dell G5 which is lower due to thermal throttling, and ASUS Scar II. The
1% low result is significantly higher, most likely due to the default CPU undervolt that’s
in place on the Triton 500 with latest BIOS.
These are the results from Far Cry 5 with ultra settings in the built in benchmark.
There’s less of a difference now, as this seems to be more of a CPU driven test and
for the most part these machines have similar CPUs. With that said though the results from
the Triton 500 are still above the other RTX 2060 machines shown here, though realistically
not by much.
These are the results from Shadow of the Tomb raider with the built in benchmark at highest
settings. Again the Triton 500 is ahead of the other RTX 2060 machines covered, most
likely due to the modifications Acer are doing to the machine, including higher GPU memory
speed, higher GPU power limit, and a CPU undervolt by default with the latest BIOS.
Overall the Acer Triton 500 is performing quite well considering the specs that it’s
got, as we’ve seen it’s often outperforming other machines tested with similar hardware
inside. In most cases you could of course further improve those other machines by manually
making similar changes yourself, but it’s still nice to see Acer doing these performance
improvements by default, which will greatly benefit those just buying a laptop and using
it with out of the box settings. Believe it or not the majority of users don’t tweak
their machines.
In the next video we’ll check out thermal performance, as a thinner machine with powerful
specs it will be interesting to see how well it does there.
Let me know what you thought of the gaming performance from the Acer Triton 500 gaming
laptop down in the comments, and if you’re new to the channel you’ll definitely want
to get subscribed for the full review to see everything this machine has to offer.