Friday, November 24th 2017
XFX Launches Custom RX Vega 56 and Vega 64 Double Edition Graphics Cards
After teasing us with a somewhat bold design for their custom RX Vega graphics cards, XFX has officially taken the lid of their finalized design for their RX Vega graphics cards. These have been a long time coming, for sure; and the design is definitely bold enough to be divisive, promising to be a "hate it or love it" affair. XFX has taken their brand-recognition-fueled X and applied that design to the graphics cards' shroud, with a recess in the middle of the graphics cards that separates the two air cooling fans giving the card an X-shaped design. This design quirk has been put to other uses than just aesthetic considerations, though, with the card's 2x 8-pin power connectors being slotted smack in the middle of the graphics card, which might be good (or bad) according to your cases' routing ability, though it should, in theory, allow for somewhat decreased length of the graphics card. The backplate on the XFX custom cards also looks great (black, gray and red are almost impossible to get wrong).
The finalized versions carry a two-slot cooling solution with 2x 8-pin power connectors - to be expected, but which somewhat constitutes a surprise for the more powerful RX Vega 64, since other early AIB partner designs have been deploying a trio of 8-pin connectors on that particular graphics card. As for connections, there's 3x DisplayPort and 1x HDMI connectors, with the top slot being fully dedicated to airflow. Availability for the XFX Double Edition graphics cards hasn't been disclosed at time of writing, but clocks for these are seemingly stock (1247 MHz base, 1546 MHz Boost for the RX Vega 64, and 1156 MHz base, 1471 MHz Boost for the Vega 56).
Source:
Videocardz
64 Comments on XFX Launches Custom RX Vega 56 and Vega 64 Double Edition Graphics Cards
As for this particular card, it's freakin' hideous. The only things that even remotely save it from capturing the Ugly GPU Crown are the carbon fiber look (and yet even this makes it look even worse for some reason) and the backplate. Everything else makes it look cheap and uninspired, especially the fans.
Getting back to the card, it's ugly, just admit it. :D
If something looks clunky it's not weird to think that it wouldn't be a great performer, lots of people are actually conditionned to think this way because of what I've said earlier. That must be why high end gaming hardware are getting so overworked since this decade.
Now the issue with this gpu is that they tried really hard to do something "special" and it ended up ugly while having nothing that could let us think that it's going to benefit the cooling or the noise.
take this thing for example they could have used 2x120mm fans on it just by extending the top most edge of the cooler by 20~30mm but no they still uses weird sized fans on them
If I had a card like that I'd have the window on the side of my case covered... Like a double bagger if ppl get what I mean lol
Shame.