Acer Predator Triton Neo 16 Unveiled: A Game-Changer in High-Performance Laptops for 2024

Ashley_Buckwell · February 5

The Predator Triton Neo 16 from Acer is one of the first new laptops to take advantage of Intel’s Core Ultra series of processors, the latest generation of Intel CPUs that were announced in December 2023 in Core Ultra 9, 7, and 5 configurations. The Triton Neo 16 contains a Core Ultra 9 185H processor, which combines several high-performance and efficiency cores, an excellent choice for laptops performing challenging tasks. The machine pushes the envelope during gaming sessions while going for efficiency when not running process-intensive apps and games. Couple this with the machine’s NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GPU, and you have the best mix of performance, efficiency, and graphics power.

Here are the confirmed key specs of the Acer Predator Triton Neo 16 (note that exact specifications will vary by region once the laptop is released):

Processor: Intel Core Ultra 9 185H with six performance cores (5.1 GHz), eight efficient cores (3.8 GHz), and two low-power efficient cores (2.5 GHz)
Graphics Card: NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 4070
Display: 16-inch OLED, 3200 × 2000 @ 165 Hz, 100% DCI-P3
Memory: Up to 32 GB LPDDR5X SDRAM
Storage: Up to 2 TB NVMe PCIe 4.0 M.2 SSD
Operating System: Windows 11 Home (64-bit)

The laptop will also be loaded with a full range of ports, including HDMI, USB-C with Thunderbolt™ 4 support, and a Micro SD™ card reader.

Design

Acer’s Predator Triton series, compared with its Predator Helios series, is the slimmer, sleeker range of gaming laptops and features designs that appeal more to professionals than to gamers. The Triton series is also known for offering power and performance in a sleek and portable form factor. If the most recent Predator Triton 16 is anything to go by, the Triton Neo 16 will be thin and light for a 16-inch gaming laptop. Continuing in this trend, the Triton Neo 16 offers something very sober, with a gray aluminum chassis that almost makes the Triton look like an ultraportable intended for work.

With the real estate that it provides, the laptop should feel roomier than most, especially thanks to the fact that its keyboard does not come with a number pad. Its design also opens the way for a larger touchpad with a fingerprint scanner for privacy and security.

The laptop has a decent selection of ports for a thin and light laptop, with an HDMI port, at least two USB-C ports, and a Micro SD™ card slot. Unlike the latest Triton 16 model, the Triton Neo 16 will lack an Ethernet port; however, high-speed wireless connectivity is likely to be provided with Intel Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.1 components, as per the Triton 16 configuration.

Performance

The Triton Neo 16 is a beast of a machine, running on Intel’s Meteor Lake CPUs up to Core Ultra 9, the most powerful processor of the series. Core Ultra processors incorporate dedicated neural processing units that perform complex tasks involving machine learning and AI processing, thereby lightening the load for the CPUs they’re housed in and enabling more effective processor workload management.

The laptop will be able to run any game you throw at it at high settings with smooth framerates, and productivity and creative tasks, like video editing and 3D rendering, will be performed with ease. The integrated neural processing unit aids the laptop in performing generative AI tasks, something that developers are increasingly looking to incorporate into video and photo editing apps and even games: think open-ended conversations with NPCs enabled by large language models.

Of course, even the latest Core Ultra processors aren’t powerful enough to enable real-time unscripted conversations with NPCs. That's where NVIDIA’s Avatar Cloud Engine comes in: it’s a cloud API that provides a suite of real-time AI solutions for building and deploying intelligent game characters, interactive avatars, and digital humans in applications at-scale. it’s a service offered by NVIDIA. Integrating this cloud API into the Triton Neo 16 may prove to unlock enhanced functionality in numerous ways in the future.

Like all Predator laptops, the Triton Neo 16 has the latest 5th-gen Aeroblade™ 3D metal fans for cooling, for which it also uses liquid metal thermal grease and vector heat pipes.

Graphics and display

Even though the Predator Triton Neo 16 has a thin and light form factor, the thermal efficiency gains it achieves with its fans, liquid metal thermal grease, and the new Core Ultra processors means it can accommodate high-performance graphics cards like the NVIDIA RTX 4070, part of the 4000 series of GPUs that also support DLSS 3.5 technology for AI-optimized enhancements in games and creator applications. This hefty graphics card is ideal for handling any gaming applications and creative work a professional might have.

The laptop comes with a brilliant 3.2K screen in a 16-inch OLED display. It’s Calman-verified with a 100% DCI-P3 gamut for color accuracy, so you can grade your photos and videos just how you want them. The screen's 165-Hz refresh rate enables smooth and responsive in-game animations and videos.

In line with the series’ overall slim and compact design, the Triton Neo 16 is expected to have very thin bezels, adding to its polished appearance.

Software

Windows 11 will be your gaming and productivity ally in the Triton Neo 16, and when acomes out, you will have AI assistance at your fingertips right in the Start menu. Notably, Copilot is already available in some regions (North America and parts of Asia and South America) in preview.

Other software that comes bundled with the laptop includes the latest Predator Sense™ app at version 5.0 and Acer Purified Voice™ 2.0 tech for clearer voice calls.

Availability

The Predator Triton Neo 16 will be available in North America in March. The laptop also comes with one month free of Xbox Game Pass, providing access to Xbox’s library of hundreds of high-quality PC games. For the latest updates on the release of the Triton Neo 16, make sure to regularly check back at this page.