Monday, August 14th 2017
Prototype AMD Vega RX 56 Triple-Fan Graphics Card Pictured
Trying to keep our community entertained and distracted from the growing pains and expectations of waiting for the death of AMD's imposed NDAs on Vega reviews is one of our missions. As such, while we know what you want are actual performance numbers, price/performance charts, and an in-depth, independent review, you'll not find such answers in this post. You will find, however, some interesting tidbits on AMD RX Vega designs. In this case, a triple-fan cooling solution for AMD's RX Vega 56 (the smaller Vega).
A behemoth, triple-fan cooling solution isn't all this prototype model (it does have some debug connectors that won't be found in retail versions of a graphics card), showcased by TooliusTech, has going for it. For one, you'll be forgiven for thinking that is a long graphics card; in fact, it's the cooling mechanism that's longest. As you can see from the pictures, roughly 40% of the added length belongs to the cooling solution itself, with the PCB actually being in line with expectations on a GPU paired with HBM2 memory. Another interesting bit this design has going for itself is the usage of 1x 6-pin and 1x 8-pin power connectors, whereas AMD's reference design makes use of 2x 8-pin. Maybe AMD is being especially careful in their reference design after the RX 480's PCIe power hoggling?
Sources:
TooliusTech, via Videocardz
25 Comments on Prototype AMD Vega RX 56 Triple-Fan Graphics Card Pictured
Also the amount of AF on side panels must be lower than 50 to protect the air turbulence and hot air mixed .
This is my opinion.
Cold air must be inserted down ... and hot air exhausted up...
But.... this works great with closed gpu fans that need a lot of cold air...
The opposite works on open air Gpus these already have fans on the gpu pushing inside the case hot air and this air must be out of the case . So the correct config is push cold air from front ... if it has dust filters it needs fans made for pressure like the ones one cpus not Air flow fans ... air flow fans is used for cases that don't be close to the fan dust filter .
Then we need at least 1 fan top and 1 fan rear as exhaust.
Also most important ,intake must be always 2/3 of the exhaust for example 2x 12 in front at 1.200 ? we need 2x 12 at 1.500 as exhaust... It depends by the size the rpms and the flow... hot air is lighter and we need to take it outsife of the case fast .if we get more cold air than take it out it's worst. Also it depends by the thickness of the dust filters and where they placed... there are a lot of air flow meters o the market ... the best is to place the fans and use the flow meter ... after that use a thermal camera and u know exactly what the hot air is going.
But if you don't want to do that then just see the specs of the fans the pressure the blades if they are open or closed ... the rpms and the size ... write down the flow in and flow out... then take 10% off the flow where dust filter is and you are ok.
exhaust/intake doesnt matter, you switch it around to your need. the GPU usually receives air from the bottom or the front of the case.
I don't have a problem with connectors placed in the middle, the only downside is they add to the height and that may prevent usage in some (few) cases.
Which also suggests Vega64 variants and means I found my future GPU...