ASRock Phantom graphics cards seem to be Colorful products?

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 03/29/2018 09:42 AM | source: | 19 comment(s)

Yesterday when the cards where announced, I was like, I swear I've seen that design before, then it hit me .. Colorful. If we advance on that thesis, Colorful (Chaintech subsidiary) has been trying to get a grip in the EU and USA markets, however, have done a very poor job accomplishing that, their marketing teams are pretty much barely even speak English.

For Colorful, however, and this is a bit of brain-fart, Nvidia GPP likely is in effect as well so Radeon cards are not something they had/have planned. So, selling AMD Radeon products though ASRock rebranded would be a solution to bypass certain restrictions and still get a can of whoop-ass marketing funds from team green. If you look up some photos of the two brands, you'll know what I am getting at.

In the end, though the relevance of all this means nothing, if it all works out hey kudos to ASRock. But let me show you why I think Chaintech could actually be the OEM for ASRock.

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Clawedge
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#5532975 Posted on: 03/29/2018 10:00 AM

Photo of the back of the PCB? Cos the heat pipes appear to be different

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#5532980 Posted on: 03/29/2018 10:10 AM

That would be normal, as it's a completely different chip. However, if it's the same fan design, then it's extremely likely that Colorful manufactured the card, reusing existing design, and ASrock is selling it as a rebranded product - put a sticker on it, and voilà! Instant ASrock graphics card with "Gaming" in the name.

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#5533002 Posted on: 03/29/2018 11:37 AM

Diamond was using HiS coolers for their R9 290, 280 series cards as well.

As stated, ASrock is rebranding their cards to get started.

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#5533005 Posted on: 03/29/2018 11:50 AM

Re-brands of AMDs re-brands. There's a joke in here somewhere.

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#5533014 Posted on: 03/29/2018 12:18 PM

Photo of the back of the PCB? Cos the heat pipes appear to be different

because one is an NVidia and other is an AMD

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#5533021 Posted on: 03/29/2018 12:30 PM

Yesterday ASRock announced its Phantom Gaming series graphics cards. ASRock will carry the RX 500 series of products in different flavors and choices. However, if you look at the product photos, you m...

ASRock Phantom graphics cards seem to be Colorful products?
Despite some clue, you cannot be sure.

Most brand doesn't do the cooler in internal, other company does it for them.
And even premium company use generic cooler for their entry product.

It remind me when the same cooler from Zalman where used for entry level GPU by Sapphire in full black, by Asus in white and black and by MSI in red and black...

Colorfull and Asrock don't do volume and/or ar just starting... they both can have the same "custom generic" cooler.

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#5533036 Posted on: 03/29/2018 12:50 PM

I never had a Colorful card, can't say if this is a good thing or a bad thing in terms of how the h/w performs.

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#5533068 Posted on: 03/29/2018 02:12 PM

I never had a Colorful card, can't say if this is a good thing or a bad thing in terms of how the h/w performs.

So basically you fundamentally failed to answer a question that was never asked. Awesome.

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#5533072 Posted on: 03/29/2018 02:16 PM

So basically you fundamentally failed to answer a question that was never asked. Awesome.

And... you had what reason to respond? You failed under your own assessment and didn't add anything valueable to the conversation either. So... I hope you punish yourself for it!

People these days... :rolleyes:

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#5533087 Posted on: 03/29/2018 02:47 PM

The shroud looks the same to me. I agree the AsRock supplier is the same.

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#5533096 Posted on: 03/29/2018 03:06 PM

Is it weird that I just looked at Colorful gpus on tomtop last night in hopes of finding an upgrade at MSRP and thought the coolers looked familiar? Then I wake up and see this story!

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#5533104 Posted on: 03/29/2018 03:31 PM

They're mining cards.

https://www.techpowerup.com/242801/mining-and-not-gaming-compelled-asrock-to-enter-the-graphics-market#comments

If they were going to do gaming, they'd be doing Nvidias cards.

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#5533110 Posted on: 03/29/2018 03:53 PM

I'm guessing there's some wheeling and dealing among the OEMs to get around the GPP by having AMD cards sold under different OEMs. I guess it's a good thing.

They're mining cards.

If they were going to do gaming, they'd be doing Nvidias cards.
Any OEM would want a slice of the mining pie, but speaking as someone who mines on the side, I would prefer an Nvidia card for mining. Nvidia cards excel at various algorithms while AMD is only really good for ethash, and Ethereum has tanked twice as hard as the overall market (price of Ethereum was 1:10 compared to Bitcoin earlier this year, but is now 1:20). If ASRock's goal is mining they're way late to the party, and they chose the wrong GPU brand.

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#5533138 Posted on: 03/29/2018 05:13 PM

ASRock has introduced the first series of its Phantom Gaming-branded graphics cards based on AMD's chips in Thailand, focusing on the mainstream price segment and it will sell them mainly in Asia Pacific and Latin America.

The company has released several graphics cards including Radeon RX 580, 570, 560 and 550 with prices ranging from NT$3,000-14,000 (US$102-477), targeting markets such as those in Latin America, Thailand, Indonesia, Australia, Japan and South Korea, where it has strong market shares for the motherboard.

https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20180329PD202.html

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#5533189 Posted on: 03/29/2018 08:31 PM

The cooler is obviously the same but you can see differences like in the heat pipes and pcb.

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