TechTuber recently visited the design center of Acer headquarters in Taiwan.Gamers Nexus’ Steve Burke clearly Headlines featured the Acer Predator GeForce RTX 4090 with integrated liquid cooling (no external radiators) and another prototype/project flagship AMD Radeon graphics card.
Acer sparked controversy last September when it revealed that it would enter the latest discrete GPU market with the Predator-branded Intel Arc A770. Using the name of the premium gaming Predator, offering an interesting design that combines blower and axial cooling, he entered the GPU market with some confidence and ambition. Now, that new business push seems to be successful enough to encourage Acer to tackle a broader market. Yes, the company is currently busy designing flagship AMD and Nvidia graphics cards.
Nvidia’s flagship cards are far further along in the design process at this point, which is why they make the headlines. Let’s look at that first. Acer’s Predator GeForce RTX 4090 has a beautiful design using the typically angular Predator design language. At first glance, it looks like his simple but boxy 3-slot card. This is quite normal for the RTX 4090, his one of the best GPUs of 2023. Beneath the twin 100mm axial fans, however, is a fully integrated liquid cooling system. Beneath the spinner is a 22mm thick, 227mm long finned cooling radiator with a rectangular block underneath that mates with the copper GPU contact section. We witnessed all of this because Mr. Burke was allowed to disassemble engineering samples.
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The other thing we learned about the custom RTX 4090 design was that it had protruding copper blocks for the GPU contacts, similar to the EVGA design. Burke believed this would allow for more precise machining of this critical section, resulting in better flatness. A larger copper cooling plate area extends over his VRAM chip, all bolted to the radiator above it. Integrated liquid cooling requires dual pump systems on both backends of the card. Elsewhere in the video, Acer’s design shows a single 12VHPWR power connector, a full triple-slot bracket (a triple-slot card may also have a twin-slot bracket), and an unobstructed top for the entire length of the PCB. You can see that the ventilation is used.
There isn’t much to say about AMD’s flagship graphics card being developed by Acer Predator. Since this is earlier in development than his Nvidia model, Acer (and Burke) didn’t want to talk too much about the details. Even without a guided tour, it’s clear that this design has so far evolved into a graphics card with triple axial fans, vertical exhaust, and twin 8-pin power connectors (third option). is. Additionally, Burke’s video showed Radeon to be about the same size as its GeForce rival.
“Acer’s plan is to try to move to more standalone video cards,” Burke said in the video’s conclusion. But before you all get excited that Acer is trying to usurp his EVGA position in his GeForce market, this PC tech YouTuber of his said, “Currently, Nvidia has not approved Acer as a board partner. I warned you. So it may be more likely that his less developed flagship Radeon will hit retail stores… Meanwhile, Acer has one of his new Radeon RX 7600 models, powered by an AMD GPU. Launched the first consumer graphics card. Watch the full Gamers Nexus video from Acer HQ below.
