XFX to launch Radeon RX 5700 XT THICC III Ultra

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 10/08/2019 02:39 PM | source: videocardz | 15 comment(s)

If you follow Guru3D, then you will have read our nice and THICC II review of the XFX Radeon RX 5700 XT, a slick and thick looking product that comes with proper clocks, proper looks being customized all the way.

Cooling performance and noise levels however where, okay'ish with the two fan cooler. As it seems a three fan THICC III based cooler is now inbound offering more cooling capacity, and likely a silent product. It'll get a turbo towards 2025 MHz, of course, that is relative as the gaming clock is what it is really about with the 5700 series. In total there are three fans on it, the middle one is a bit bigger than the other two from the looks of things. Underneath is a large cooling block, which makes it quite thick. Two 8-pin connections provide the card with power.

The photos are not yet available on the XFX side, but luckily videocardz has snagged and posted them so you can have a peek. And yeah, even with three fans, that is a good looking product.

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#5718106 Posted on: 10/08/2019 02:41 PM

Okay there's like.... a million jokes in there. Most of them politically incorrect.

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#5718111 Posted on: 10/08/2019 02:50 PM

Hopefully they fix the issues the THICC II had this time round.

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#5718156 Posted on: 10/08/2019 04:07 PM

Hopefully they fix the issues the THICC II had this time round.

I'm inclined to bet they didn't.

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#5718161 Posted on: 10/08/2019 04:17 PM

really ? after it getting destroyed by GN in-depth analysis ?

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#5718208 Posted on: 10/08/2019 05:31 PM

They failed so hard with the THICC II that they just need to drop the name, and don't even try with the THICC III.

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#5718270 Posted on: 10/08/2019 08:27 PM

really ? after it getting destroyed by GN in-depth analysis ?

If I remember correctly, it had the lowest temperature @auto fan speed, which has the 0db thing going for it. It may be louder than some, but should be fine for many - much better than reference.

This model should be better in that regard. Could be quite a sweet card.

Some of you seem to be overly negative.

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#5718276 Posted on: 10/08/2019 08:36 PM

If I remember correctly, it had the lowest temperature @auto fan speed

GN pits all their cards against each other in a standardized style using a 40dBA fan noise level for every card. And the THICC II came out the worst compared to every other custom card. The GPU was nearly as hot as the reference 5700 XT, which is really not good.

The only reason it did OK with regards to thermals, was because when it's allowed to do its own thing in "auto fan mode" it speeds up its fans to 2,100RPM which is really loud and is worse than other custom cards.

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#5718277 Posted on: 10/08/2019 08:38 PM

GN pits all their cards against each other in a standardized style using a 40dBA fan noise level for every card. And the THICC II came out the worst compared to every other custom card. The GPU was nearly as hot as the reference 5700 XT, which is really not good. The only reason it "did well" when allowed to do its own thing in "auto mode" is that it sped up its fan speed so fast and so loud that it basically isn't really much of an upgrade in terms of fan noise compared to better made coolers from other partners.

Err

Obviously I've seen the video.

My point stands firm.

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#5718278 Posted on: 10/08/2019 08:39 PM

I like the way it looks though.

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#5718281 Posted on: 10/08/2019 08:42 PM

I like the way it looks though.

Same. The design seems to hamper temperatures/airflow, but this 3 fan model could work very well.
If Sapphire didn't have the Trixx resolution thing going, I may have gone with one of the current 2 fan models - I like the 0db feature.

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#5718311 Posted on: 10/08/2019 10:30 PM

Hopefully they fix the issues the THICC II had this time round.

It’s XFX. No they didn’t.

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#5718315 Posted on: 10/08/2019 10:36 PM

It’s XFX. No they didn’t.

As an owner of an XFX card, I can say they aren't all horrible.

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#5718377 Posted on: 10/09/2019 02:14 AM

As an owner of an XFX card, I can say they aren't all horrible.

I’ve owned 4 one had bad vram the other was unstable when ramping yo the first step on 3D clocks (like when watching a video on YouTube with hardware acceleration on). The other two were reference cards with XFX stickers on the box.

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#5718413 Posted on: 10/09/2019 06:56 AM

This is just sad. They look to sell these to ricers.

Make it thick, more fans and it will become just faster. Same mentality of 12 year olds where a spoiler on a car makes its faster.

What would be impressive is an itx version, not this abomination.

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#5719002 Posted on: 10/10/2019 01:15 PM

My own empirical experiences with XFX products has been good; a RX 480 and a R9 280 XT, (which, I believe served as the inspiration for this card), have both been faultless since purchase. I feel, visually, that particular 280 XT may well be the classiest video card ever manufactured.

So, I gather the "II" has been deemed flawed, and the "III" represents yet another bite of that same apple. But, I apparently missed the "I" version. Incidentally, in that first videocardz photo, the III kind of resembles the Battlestar Galactica.

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