The invention discloses a high-performance graphene-containing water-based acrylate coating. The high-performance graphene-containing water-based acrylate coating contains pure acrylic and/or a styrene-acrylic emulsion, titanium dioxide, calcium carbonate, a dispersing agent, a defoaming agent, a film-forming agent, a flatting agent and sulfonated graphene. The invention further discloses a method for preparing the water-based acrylate coating. Compared with an existing water-based acrylate coating, by adding a minute quantity of sulfonated grapheme into the water-based acrylate coating, the comprehensive properties of the prepared coating are substantially improved, for instance, the tensile strength is increased by 20%-60%, the elongation at break is increased by 25%-70%, the thermal conductivity is increased by 20%-100%, the water resistance is obviously improved, the electrical conductivity is improved by an order of magnitude, and the gas barrier property is increased by 10%-80%. The high-performance graphene-containing water-based acrylate coating is easy to prepare, low in cost and convenient to use and can be applied to the various fields of toughening, heat conduction, corrosion prevention and the like of the water-based acrylate coating.