ASRock Phantom graphics cards seem to be Colorful products?

#5532975

Clawedge

2018-03-29 10:00

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

#5532980

Mitch 74

2018-03-29 10:10

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.

#5533002

Agonist

2018-03-29 11:37

Diamond was using HiS coolers for their R9 290, 280 series cards as well. As stated, ASrock is rebranding their cards to get started.

#5533005

0blivious

2018-03-29 11:50

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

#5533014

rl66

2018-03-29 12:18

Clawedge:

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 🙂

#5533021

rl66

2018-03-29 12:30

Hilbert Hagedoorn:

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.

#5533036

fantaskarsef

2018-03-29 12:50

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.

#5533068

spine

2018-03-29 14:12

fantaskarsef:

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.

#5533072

fantaskarsef

2018-03-29 14:16

spine:

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... 🙄

#5533087

Silva

2018-03-29 14:47

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

#5533096

vbetts

Moderator

2018-03-29 15:06

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!

#5533104

Rich_Guy

2018-03-29 15:31

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.

#5533110

D3M1G0D

2018-03-29 15:53

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.

Rich_Guy:

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.

#5533138

Rich_Guy

2018-03-29 17:13

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

#5533189

Moto_Life

2018-03-29 20:31

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

#5533238

rl66

2018-03-29 22:10

Moto_Life:

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

Of course... the one on top is an NVidia GTX 1070, and the one below is a AMD Radeon RX 5*0... the GPU is not on the same place on the PCB (wich is obviously different too)

#5533385

fantaskarsef

2018-03-30 08:25

Rich_Guy:

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

So now we have MINING cards that incidentally can run games too? This is the end of everything... 😀

#5533386

Fox2232

2018-03-30 08:32

Rich_Guy:

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

That was really just some dumb random question.

D3M1G0D:

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.

If I was making nV cards and they came to me with their GPP intending to gobble my branding... I would introduce new special branding just for nVidia. Those cards would not be named GTX ..., but GPP ... So everyone would know that they are part of program.

#5533420

Noisiv

2018-03-30 11:09

Fox2232:

That was really just some dumb random question. If I was making nV cards and they came to me with their GPP intending to gobble my branding... I would introduce new special branding just for nVidia. Those cards would not be named GTX ..., but GPP ... So everyone would know that they are part of program.

You'd be pedaling the life-raft together with XFX, sooner than you can say Damnation 🙂