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PowerColor Shows its Radeon VII With photos
Following ASRock and Sapphire, PowerColor now also outs their Radeon VII in a reference design. Word is that PowerColor will however release some custom models in the Devil series at one point.
The card shown is a reference product as well. It won't be much longer before we'll see the first product available for VEGA20, aka the Radeon VII. While it is still a little unknown if there will be custom AIB products we do know that the AIB will do an AIC, e.g. they will sell the reference products. Looking at the box we see the confirmed thing like a 7nm process, 16 GB HBM2 memory with a bandwidth of 1 TB per second and that Freesync 2 HDR support.
The manufacturer is listing card at a 1400 MHz engine clock with a Boost towards 1750 MHz. The card will be fitted with 1x HDMI 2.0b and 3x DisplayPort 1.4. The Vega II or Vega VII logo has now also been confirmed. The new graphics card should be on the shelves by February 7 and is priced at 699 USD.
Review: PowerColor Red Devil Radeon RX 590 8G - 11/15/2018 04:00 PM
It is November 15, 2018 and AMD today launched a new Polaris refresh GPU. Baked on 12nm the Radeon RX 590 has been born. In our review we'll peek at the PowerColor Radeon RX 590 Red Devil edition. It...
PowerColor Launches RX Vega Nano - 09/11/2018 08:44 AM
For gamers who don't want any performance compromises in a compact gaming system, Vega 56 Nano runs with a boost clock up to 1471Mhz and makes use of 8Gb of HBM highly energy efficient memory clocked...
PowerColor Graphics card Sales Cave in - sells 80% fewer video cards than previous month - 05/24/2018 03:28 PM
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PowerColor to Demo Radeon RX Vega 56 Nano Edition At Computex - 05/15/2018 03:33 PM
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PowerColor Teases Radeon RX Vega Nano - 04/19/2018 04:07 PM
Over at an AMD Munich Event covering Ryzen 2000, there has been a surprise showcase of a Vega card still under wraps, it's a Nano. The smalle single fan sized 17cm (Mini ITX) form factor card was ca...
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#5633419 Posted on: 01/30/2019 05:40 PM
I'm tired of the "let see how many fans we can cram on" design. What happened to sucking air in and exhausting it out the back? Now instead of one fan that might start going tick tick tick chinka chinka chinka we have those chances x3. I get this is a stop gap since lithography shrink is slowing thus we get more heat from gpus pushed farther but this doesn't seem pleasant for the consumer. Most people are buying from online stores and these things get just pummeled on their way to you.
I'm tired of the "let see how many fans we can cram on" design. What happened to sucking air in and exhausting it out the back? Now instead of one fan that might start going tick tick tick chinka chinka chinka we have those chances x3. I get this is a stop gap since lithography shrink is slowing thus we get more heat from gpus pushed farther but this doesn't seem pleasant for the consumer. Most people are buying from online stores and these things get just pummeled on their way to you.
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#5633425 Posted on: 01/30/2019 05:53 PM
You're actually complaining about the lack of use of blower style cooling?
I can understand the complaint as blower-style coolers dump the heat outside of the case but at the required TDP for these GPUs, it's just unsuitable from a noise level and thermal level. Just look at previous generations of coolers from AMD and Nvidia where TDPs were between 200w and 300w (Remember R9 290X? Those were awful, very noisy and 90°c temps....).
With AIBs using their own cooling designs, the "more fans" approach has shown to be better as more fans mean lower RPM of fans giving longer life so it makes sense that reference designs for consumer cards are using this kind of design but of course.
That's not to say blower style cooling doesn't have a place for consumers, such as in restricted airflow cases (small form factors) but again, noise and thermals become an issue, nevertheless, blower styles are more suitable in a workstation or server environment where comfort is less of a worry.
I'm tired of the "let see how many fans we can cram on" design. What happened to sucking air in and exhausting it out the back? Now instead of one fan that might start going tick tick tick chinka chinka chinka we have those chances x3. I get this is a stop gap since lithography shrink is slowing thus we get more heat from gpus pushed farther but this doesn't seem pleasant for the consumer. Most people are buying from online stores and these things get just pummeled on their way to you.
You're actually complaining about the lack of use of blower style cooling?
I can understand the complaint as blower-style coolers dump the heat outside of the case but at the required TDP for these GPUs, it's just unsuitable from a noise level and thermal level. Just look at previous generations of coolers from AMD and Nvidia where TDPs were between 200w and 300w (Remember R9 290X? Those were awful, very noisy and 90°c temps....).
With AIBs using their own cooling designs, the "more fans" approach has shown to be better as more fans mean lower RPM of fans giving longer life so it makes sense that reference designs for consumer cards are using this kind of design but of course.
That's not to say blower style cooling doesn't have a place for consumers, such as in restricted airflow cases (small form factors) but again, noise and thermals become an issue, nevertheless, blower styles are more suitable in a workstation or server environment where comfort is less of a worry.
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#5633600 Posted on: 01/31/2019 02:41 AM
The Red Devil variants should prove interesting if made, and available...
The Red Devil variants should prove interesting if made, and available...
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#5633649 Posted on: 01/31/2019 08:55 AM
blower style coolers are horribly inefficient and ineffective. If you don't like the cooler design, don't buy the card. It's pretty simple.
I'm tired of the "let see how many fans we can cram on" design. What happened to sucking air in and exhausting it out the back? Now instead of one fan that might start going tick tick tick chinka chinka chinka we have those chances x3. I get this is a stop gap since lithography shrink is slowing thus we get more heat from gpus pushed farther but this doesn't seem pleasant for the consumer. Most people are buying from online stores and these things get just pummeled on their way to you.
blower style coolers are horribly inefficient and ineffective. If you don't like the cooler design, don't buy the card. It's pretty simple.
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#5633653 Posted on: 01/31/2019 09:08 AM
You....you realize that blower-style coolers are the bare-minimum style coolers, yeah?
Blower-style coolers are interesting in the point that they directly exhaust hot air out your PC, but what's the use of that if it's not able to keep it cooler then one that doesn't exhaust directly outside the PC?
Only place i see blower-style coolers work decently is in combination to a hybrid water cooler.
I'm tired of the "let see how many fans we can cram on" design. What happened to sucking air in and exhausting it out the back? Now instead of one fan that might start going tick tick tick chinka chinka chinka we have those chances x3. I get this is a stop gap since lithography shrink is slowing thus we get more heat from gpus pushed farther but this doesn't seem pleasant for the consumer. Most people are buying from online stores and these things get just pummeled on their way to you.
You....you realize that blower-style coolers are the bare-minimum style coolers, yeah?
Blower-style coolers are interesting in the point that they directly exhaust hot air out your PC, but what's the use of that if it's not able to keep it cooler then one that doesn't exhaust directly outside the PC?
Only place i see blower-style coolers work decently is in combination to a hybrid water cooler.
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#5633865 Posted on: 01/31/2019 10:44 PM
Question.. sorry if this is SO simple yet.. WHY do all the cards have to look the same?
Question.. sorry if this is SO simple yet.. WHY do all the cards have to look the same?
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#5633960 Posted on: 02/01/2019 05:26 AM
I think they call that Vanilla.
I think they call that Vanilla.
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#5634216 Posted on: 02/01/2019 06:00 PM
I could be wrong about this but i believe, at least at first, only reference cards will be released. I'm not though certain why reference cards are simply not produced by AMD and only AMD, similar to the FE cards from nvidia, maybe a production speed issue? Not sure.
Question.. sorry if this is SO simple yet.. WHY do all the cards have to look the same?
I could be wrong about this but i believe, at least at first, only reference cards will be released. I'm not though certain why reference cards are simply not produced by AMD and only AMD, similar to the FE cards from nvidia, maybe a production speed issue? Not sure.
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#5634218 Posted on: 02/01/2019 06:04 PM
Marketing and economical reasons. All built from AMD and shipped to partners. Perhaps AMD is getting paid a tiny amount/income cut for that AiB stickers placed to their reference product.
I could be wrong about this but i believe, at least at first, only reference cards will be released. I'm not though certain why reference cards are simply not produced by AMD and only AMD, similar to the FE cards from nvidia, maybe a production speed issue? Not sure.
Marketing and economical reasons. All built from AMD and shipped to partners. Perhaps AMD is getting paid a tiny amount/income cut for that AiB stickers placed to their reference product.
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#5634243 Posted on: 02/01/2019 07:16 PM
Well I got some insight about price etc and it's a bit pricey. That's all I can say for now.. at least in EU with taxes.
Well I got some insight about price etc and it's a bit pricey. That's all I can say for now.. at least in EU with taxes.
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#5634248 Posted on: 02/01/2019 07:39 PM
spill the beans. 800eur?
Well I got some insight about price etc and it's a bit pricey. That's all I can say for now.. at least in EU with taxes.
spill the beans. 800eur?
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#5634357 Posted on: 02/01/2019 10:46 PM
Could be around 750-800€-ish. Those 16 GB of HBM2 are stirring interest from content creators, and AIBs can smell that like sharks smell blood in water.
Could be around 750-800€-ish. Those 16 GB of HBM2 are stirring interest from content creators, and AIBs can smell that like sharks smell blood in water.
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Which looks exactly like any other Radeon VII....