Acer Predator Triton 17X (PTX17-71) review – Mini LED screen with an absurdly powerful hardware

Temperatures and comfort, Battery Life

Max CPU load

In this test we use 100% on the CPU cores, monitoring their frequencies and chip temperature. The first column shows a computer’s reaction to a short load (2-10 seconds), the second column simulates a serious task (between 15 and 30 seconds), and the third column is a good indicator of how good the laptop is for long loads such as video rendering.

Average P-core frequency; Average E-core frequency; CPU temp.; Package Power

This device has a little weird behavior when it comes to extreme workloads. The first 10-30 seconds it looks like it doesn’t really know what’s going on. This makes the P-cores run at quite low clocks, while the E-cores are boosting a lot. Then, after the 1-minute mark, the P-cores figure out that they are needed, and push to full power, only to fall down to about 2.55 GHz after 10 minutes into the test.

Real-life gaming

Here, we see quite the contrast between the Predator Triton 17X (PTX17-71) and the ASUS ROG Strix SCAR 18 (G834, 2023). It runs at frequencies that are 150-200MHz lower, and a 30W lower wattage. On the bright side, the RTX 4090 doesn’t get too warm.

Gaming comfort

Now, if you want to extract the most out of this laptop, you have to expect some noise. But what caught us off-guard was the 50+°C temperature in the middle of the keyboard.

Battery

Now, we conduct the battery tests with the Windows Better performance setting turned on, screen brightness adjusted to 120 nits and all other programs turned off except for the one we are testing the notebook with. Here, the 99.9Wh battery pack lasts for 4 hours and 55 minutes of Web browsing, or 4 hours and 18 minutes of video playback.

Video playback

Brightness: 180 nits; Display Mode: SDR
Time to Full Discharge: Higher is Better

Acer Predator Triton 17X (PTH17-71)

4h 05m

Lenovo Legion Pro 7i (16" Intel, Gen 8) 99.9Wh

5h 40m+38.8%

MSI Raider GE78 HX (13Vx) 99Wh, 4-cell

5h 11m+26.9%

ASUS ROG Strix SCAR 18 (G834, 2023) 90Wh, 4-cell

4h 51m+18.8%

HP OMEN 17 (17-ck2000) 83Wh

4h 59m+22%

Web surfing

In order to simulate real-life conditions, we used our own script for automatic web browsing through over 70 websites.

Acer Predator Triton 17X (PTH17-71)

4h 55m

Lenovo Legion Pro 7i (16" Intel, Gen 8) 99.9Wh

6h 40m+35.6%

MSI Raider GE78 HX (13Vx) 99Wh, 4-cell

7h 55m+61%

ASUS ROG Strix SCAR 18 (G834, 2023) 90Wh, 4-cell

8h 30m+72.9%

HP OMEN 17 (17-ck2000) 83Wh

4h 45m-3.4%

Author: Alex Iliev

Author: eng. Kroum NikolovHead of Engineering at LaptopMedia.com, inventor and innovator with 40+ years of experience in electronics and high technology.

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Johnny

2 years ago

I have one of these on order. I couldn’t find any information if it has a Mux switch and thank goodness you mentioned it at the end of your view. So Thank you.

I am sadden by the lackluster performance. How and which mode is used? Are they hitting thermal throttling or power limit? Which mode was used for all the benchmarking?

As I recall the 2023 Asus Zephyrus Duo 16 only does the 175w CPU+GPU if it is in Turbo mode. Could it be possible Acer only allows 175w on CPU+GPU the same way?

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Zach

2 years ago

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Any updates on your purchase?

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