Update to our Acer RTX 4090 article

This time last week, we published an article taking a close look at an Acer-branded liquid cooled RTX 4090 graphics card. Although not available standalone as the GPU can only be purchased as part of the Predator Orion X prebuilt, we took at look at the GPU itself and assessed performance in our regular GPU test system. We have since been in contact with Acer and are issuing this update.

The story begins with the Acer Predator Orion X prebuilt system, which Acer sent to us for a sponsored showcase – not a review. The system we were sent had a liquid cooled RTX 4090 in it, which led us to believe it was an international model. In the UK, as we confirmed with our Acer representative, the Orion X will only be available with an RTX 4080.

Still, we had what we felt was a very unique and interesting product, and many comments on our showcase video asked us to take a closer look at the RTX 4090 itself. We received quite a few emails on the subject as well. As someone who reviews graphics cards for a living, I was only too happy to oblige – both because it would make good content, and I was very curious to see how a liquid cooled GPU made by Acer would perform.

And so we published our article. I was deliberate not to call it a ‘review' and you will note that no score is assigned to the graphics card in the article itself – a conscious decision as I didn't feel we could accurately ‘score' a product that won't even be available in the UK as part of a prebuilt, let alone as a standalone product. Even so, we presented a fair amount of data and the cooling performance was demonstrably worse than other RTX 4090 graphics cards.

Unfortunately, unknown to us, it would seem that the Predator Orion X we were sent was not a final retail sample and so the performance of the RTX 4090 we presented in our analysis may not be representative of the final product. To be clear, we did not know that the Orion X system, or any of the components in it, were not ‘final' retail products – we simply thought it was just a different configuration than what would be available at retail in the UK, something that happens fairly regularly in the industry.

Our intent was never to mislead or misrepresent performance of the Acer RTX 4090. We have requested a final version of the Orion X system once available so we can present a thorough, independent review that would be fully representative of the final product any of our readers would buy. We hope to follow up with that in the New Year. Acer right now seems keen to make that happen.

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KitGuru says: We hope to get our hands on a final retail version of the Orion X as soon as possible.

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