PowerColor Announces its Hellhound 7900-series Graphics Cards

PowerColor has revealed additional information about its forthcoming 7000 series cards. The Hellhound Radeon RX 7900 XTX and the Hellhound Radeon RX 7900 XT seem to share the same design and cooler, suggesting that they are two different models

.The pictures show that the cards have three slots at the very least, but this is not entirely clear. PowerColor's nine-blade fan design is equipped with LEDs, and the company is promoting a purple shade called "amethyst purple" for its new line of Hellhound graphics cards. It is claimed that, compared to older fans, the new ones can reduce GPU temperatures by as much as three degrees Celsius.

Both the RX 7900 XTX Hellhound and the RX 7900 XTX Hellhound XT will have a 14-layer PCB with 20 phase VRAM (same as Sapphire Nitro). The card looks like it has two 8-pin power connectors, which is the same number as the reference design.

The cooler is getting a bigger GPU direct-contact copper plate area (91892.6 mm), which will cover both the GPU and the memory (either 24GB or 20GB depending on the SKU). PowerColor also says that the design of the fans has been improved, which can lower the temperature by up to 3°C compared to the last generation of the Hellhound series. PowerColor has not given any details about either of the two new models that were announced today. The company had already shown off the Red Devil 7900 series, which will have an even more advanced design with three 8-pin power connectors. It is likely that both models will be fully available on December 13, but that has not been decided yet.