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ASRock announces custom Radeon RX 5700 Series "Challenger"
ASRock is announcing the Radeon RX 5700 Challenger 8G OC series graphics cards, featured AMD's latest Radeon RX 5700 series gaming GPUs. Considering what happened to the Challenger space shuttle years ago, not a very handy name we'd say.
TAIPEI, Taiwan, July 18th, 2019 –The leading global motherboard, graphics card and small form factor PC manufacturer, ASRock, takes the lead in announcing the custom graphic card products – Radeon RX 5700 Challenger 8G OC series graphics cards, featured AMD's latest Radeon RX 5700 series gaming GPU and 8GB 256-bit GDDR6 memory, provides advanced gaming experiences to challenge the limits.
The Radeon RX 5700 Challenger 8G OC series graphics cards are powered by the new RDNA architecture, the heart of AMD’s advanced 7nm technology process. RDNA features up to 40 completely redesigned “Compute Units” delivering incredible performance and up to 4x IPC improvements, new instructions better suited for visual effects such as volumetric lighting, blur effects, and depth of field, and multi-level cache hierarchy for greatly reduced latency and highly responsive gaming. The RDNA architecture enables DisplayPort 1.4 with Display Stream Compression for extreme refresh rates and resolutions on cutting edge displays for insanely immersive gameplay.
Based on RDNA architecture, the Radeon RX 5700 Series GPUs are capable to deliver superior 1440p advanced gaming experiences. Equipped with the latest 8GB of GDDR6 high-speed memory, and PCI Express 4.0 support, Radeon RX 5700 XT Challenger 8G OC graphics card provides base/boost/game GPU clock at 1650/1795/1905 MHz, and on the other hand, Radeon RX 5700 Challenger 8G OC graphics card features with base/boost/game GPU clock at 1515/1675/1725 MHz. Furthermore, Harness Asynchronous Compute, Radeon Image Sharpening, FidelityFX, TressFX, TrueAudio Next, and VR technologies enable for maximum performance and enhanced gaming experiences.
The Radeon RX 5700 Challenger 8G OC series graphics cards are specially designed with a long-life 10 cm dual fan, and 4 copper heat-pipe up to 8mm to enhance the heat dissipation effect. In addition, the RX 5700 XT Challenger 8G OC graphics card not only focuses on the outlook design, but also the ultra-high-quality aluminum alloy backplate to enhance the strutting of the graphics card.
The launches of Radeon RX 5700 Challenger 8G OC series graphics cards demonstrated ASRock’s graphics card business is in full swing. In addition to the continuous growth of the motherboard business, the release of new graphics card products represents ASRock’s goals toward the graphics card filed. ASRock keeps improving the quality to bring better products for customers. The core of the new generation RDNA display, ASRock Radeon RX 5700 Challenger 8G OC series graphics card is undoubtedly the one of the best choice among the brands.
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#5692465 Posted on: 07/19/2019 02:07 AM
Asrock GPUs seem to be the cheapest ones of all manufacturers by a fair margin. The cooler in the pictures is adequate performance wise and neatly fitted in place. More expensive models will surely offer much better cooling and longer warranty, since Asrock only offers two years. This Asrock card if cheap enough will serve me fine, but I wish there will be no coil whine. Coil whine is an issue manufacturers should try to nullify completely. Most likely Asrock has done nothing to prevent it.
For those who want a reasonably silent card at load I would not recommend the XT variant of this Asrock card; beefier cooler is required.
Asrock GPUs seem to be the cheapest ones of all manufacturers by a fair margin. The cooler in the pictures is adequate performance wise and neatly fitted in place. More expensive models will surely offer much better cooling and longer warranty, since Asrock only offers two years. This Asrock card if cheap enough will serve me fine, but I wish there will be no coil whine. Coil whine is an issue manufacturers should try to nullify completely. Most likely Asrock has done nothing to prevent it.
For those who want a reasonably silent card at load I would not recommend the XT variant of this Asrock card; beefier cooler is required.
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#5692503 Posted on: 07/19/2019 05:31 AM
Ah ASRock, the company you buy from when you're okay with buying alpha stage experimental hardware which may be good or a complete catastrophe. And as is standard for mobo manufacturers, no actual support to speak of.
...... I'd buy from them again. It's not like the others are better.
How long have they been in the video card market?
Ah ASRock, the company you buy from when you're okay with buying alpha stage experimental hardware which may be good or a complete catastrophe. And as is standard for mobo manufacturers, no actual support to speak of.
...... I'd buy from them again. It's not like the others are better.
How long have they been in the video card market?
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#5692534 Posted on: 07/19/2019 11:07 AM
I think the name Challenger is a metaphor for what happened to AMD fan's hopes and dreams with these new cards only to have them dashed by nVidia's Super cards.
It means card can challange nvidia super cards and costs less.
I think the name Challenger is a metaphor for what happened to AMD fan's hopes and dreams with these new cards only to have them dashed by nVidia's Super cards.
It means card can challange nvidia super cards and costs less.
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#5692551 Posted on: 07/19/2019 01:23 PM
I am surprised at the tardiness of AIBs. Being first w/ an alternative to blower models HAS to be a great sales opportunity.
I am surprised at the tardiness of AIBs. Being first w/ an alternative to blower models HAS to be a great sales opportunity.
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Navi needs AIB cards like now! Those blower cards are AIDS.