MYDCF – the Malaysian Digital Content Festival – is underway in Kuala Lumpur! The annual event has kicked off with a showcase of the latest and best that studios in Malaysia have put forward. This year’s event also showcases the works of studios like PlayStation, Bandai Namco, Passion Republic Games and more.
Part of the show floor of MYDCF is Noizucon, a conference for gamers, cosplayers and more. This show, behind a MYR60 ticket, is also hosting Malaysia’s Finals of Acer‘s Predator League happening there. The 2024 Predator League finals will be happening on the 30th of September 2023 (Saturday) for DoTA 2 while the finals for PlayerUnknown’s Batttlegrounds (PUBG) will be happening on 1 October 2023 (Sunday).
However, Acer has a little something up their sleeves at the Predator League show floor. Snug among the chaos of the competition and the showcase of Acer’s latest Predator and Nitro offerings was a little surprise – two new graphics cards emblazoned with the Predator logo. The new GPUs on display were the AMD Radeon RX7600 8G OC and the Intel ARC A750.
Predator’s AMD Radeon RX7600 8G OC comes with 1 HDMI 2.1 output and 3 DisplayPort 1.4 output. This supports up to 60Hz refresh rate at 8K resolution for a single display or 4 displays at 4K/60Hz. It comes with 8GB of vRAM with speeds of up to 288 GB/s and clock speeds of up to 2320 MHz. The clock speed can even be boosted to 2725 MHz. The GPU is cooled by a ringed axial fan & blower configuration.
The Intel ARC A750 that was on display, on the other hand, came with 3 Display Port 2.0 and a single HDMI 2.0 output. It supports the same resolution and refresh rates as the Radeon RX7600. It also has 8GB of GDDR6 vRAM with speeds of up to 512GB/s. For cooling, the Intel GPU card comes with a hybrid setup which employs both a ringed axial fan and a blower fan. Predator has tuned the GPU to support up to 2200 MHz clock speeds.
It remains unclear if the cooling will employ Predator’s Bifrost technology. Acer Malaysia is remaining tight-lipped with the details of the Predator graphics cards. Of note, there doesn’t seem to be an NVIDIA SKU of the Predator GPUs. At the very least, they didn’t tease it at the Predator League in Malaysia.
Pricing & Availability
That said, both of the GPUs on display are already available in the USA. The Predator BiFrost Intel ARC 750 series is retailing for USD$269.99 (MYR1,267.52) while the Predator BiFrost AMD RX7600 8G OC is retailing for USD$289.99 (MYR1,361.40).
For Malaysia, the AMD RX7600 8G OC will be officially priced at MYR1,498 while the Intel ARC 750 will be retailing at MYR1,299. The GPUs will officially be available in October via Acer’s official partners – Just IT, Brightstar and Monaliza.