Tuesday, July 9th 2019
Custom Radeon RX 5700-series Only by Mid-August: AMD
In our reviews of the Radeon RX 5700 XT and RX 5700, we observed that while AMD made leaps with performance/Watt, the cards felt let down by the archaic lateral-blower cooling solution that hit up to 43 dBA at load, and with temperatures of the RX 5700 XT GPU reaching up to 92°C - unacceptable for a GPU that only draws 220 W. The reference cooler of the RX 5700 also exhibited some very strange fan-speed behavior at high temperatures. Much of our praise for the RX 5700-series was conditional to the hope that add-in-board (AIB) partners will innovate good cooling solutions that are quiet and keep the GPU cool. We have these custom-design graphics cards based on the two GPUs to look forward to, but according to a Reddit post by Scott Herkelman, who leads the Radeon brand at AMD, we might have to wait a little longer.
Herkelman stated that custom-design graphics cards based on the Radeon RX 5700 XT and RX 5700 will start hitting the shelves only by mid-August. He added that he is working with his team to get many of these custom-design cards in the hands of reviewers before that, so consumers have review data ahead of availability. He also acknowledged that the reference cooling solution is the biggest drawback of the reference design, and that he "liked the idea" of providing reference-design cards with dual-fan or triple-fan axial flow reference cooling solutions similar what NVIDIA provides with its Founders Edition cards.
Source:
Scott Herkelman (Reddit)
Herkelman stated that custom-design graphics cards based on the Radeon RX 5700 XT and RX 5700 will start hitting the shelves only by mid-August. He added that he is working with his team to get many of these custom-design cards in the hands of reviewers before that, so consumers have review data ahead of availability. He also acknowledged that the reference cooling solution is the biggest drawback of the reference design, and that he "liked the idea" of providing reference-design cards with dual-fan or triple-fan axial flow reference cooling solutions similar what NVIDIA provides with its Founders Edition cards.
32 Comments on Custom Radeon RX 5700-series Only by Mid-August: AMD
But at least not end of Aug.
FE editions usually is alone for a month or so.
One of the Super cards for me, then.
AMD releases new cards
AIB: i guess we better make a few, maybe
Just goes to show where the confidence in the gpu market is, ill bet that AiBs would fight to the grave for nv dies
Plus russian market is usually a bit late to the party and I need to buy something here before moving to Budapest right on the first of September. I checked the hardware prices there and they're insane, I'll save 15-20% by buying here.
So it's just my very specific circumstances.
I'm on the market for a new gpu, if they had a good axial fan reference card or custom AIB ready, i'd pull the trigger immediately.
But more than a month is a long time, i don't know if i'll be able to withhold, might end up with the Duper series, will see.
It's good they are recognizing the problem here, for their own sake i hope they sort it out for future releases.
Quit blaming AIBs, this is all on AMD and their execution. It's the same every launch.
Same with broken drivers or other random issues almost every time.
Alternative Tonga (285/380X) reference design:
Alternative Hawaii/Grenada (290X/390X) reference design:
Advertised Polaris 20 (RX 580/590) reference design:
And to top it off the actual heatsink on Navi (and Vega) is *puny* compared to AMD's previous 250W cooler designs, as shown below when you compare it to a reference Radeon HD 7970:
Literally had every chance to improve and they squandered it.
He is the head of the Radeon Graphics? If I was on Reddit, I would ask him what he actually does. One would think, he could have interviened if he regrets the blower design, no? Was he too busy on the yacht? Sad, really sad. Lisa pumping the Ryzen and Herkelman screwing the pooch.
Of the reviews on YouTube? Nearly every one says wait for the AIB's to put a decent cooler on it.
:lovetpu:
AMD's reference coolers are just a bad joke.