Wednesday, October 16th 2019
Possible XFX Radeon RX 5500 THICC II Pictured
These could very well be the first pictures of a custom-design Radeon RX 5500 graphics card. Pictures of the purported XFX Radeon RX 5500 THICC II made it to the web courtesy VideoCardz. It's very likely that this is the RX 5500 looking at its power-connectivity, which includes just a single 8-pin PCIe input. An RX 5700-series product would at least feature an 8+6-pin input design. The display I/O is also peculiar, with not one but two dual-link DVI-D connectors (no analog pins on either), and one each of DisplayPort and HDMI. The card has the same design language as its THICC series siblings from the RX 5700-series.
The cooling solution uses two shrouds (the front shroud and the back-plate) that meet in the middle in symmetry. Two fans ventilate an aluminium fin-stack heatsink that features two or three 8 mm-thick copper heat pipes. The cooler is longer than the card itself. Based on the 7 nm "Navi 11" silicon, the Radeon RX 5500 features 22 RDNA compute units working out to 1,408 stream processors, boost frequencies of up to 1848 MHz, and up to 8 GB of GDDR6 memory across a 128-bit wide memory interface.
Source:
VideoCardz
The cooling solution uses two shrouds (the front shroud and the back-plate) that meet in the middle in symmetry. Two fans ventilate an aluminium fin-stack heatsink that features two or three 8 mm-thick copper heat pipes. The cooler is longer than the card itself. Based on the 7 nm "Navi 11" silicon, the Radeon RX 5500 features 22 RDNA compute units working out to 1,408 stream processors, boost frequencies of up to 1848 MHz, and up to 8 GB of GDDR6 memory across a 128-bit wide memory interface.
13 Comments on Possible XFX Radeon RX 5500 THICC II Pictured
Its disrespectful for your consumers and those that test your product.
XFX needs to watch the GN video and remove all the plastic and backplate
What happens is that the left fan creates high pressure forcing air to the right, and the right fan creates high pressure forcing air to the left. The air pressure between the fan hubs is perfectly balanced, resulting in no airflow.
This heatsink design wastes half of the airflow from each fan. It'll still be okay because even with half the airflow and half the heatsink, it should be overkill for an RX 5500 but once again, it's a really dumb design that like the previous THICC designs is hotter, louder, and larger than it needs to be for no reason other than dumb cosmetics.
Here, I doodled the effective deadzone in red compared to the areas where there will be normal airflow in blue:
Also note how small the fin stack is compared to the ridiculous amount of bolt-on 'MacDonalds plastic', and I may have been overly generous to XFX with regards to where the fin stack ends on the left. I just had to guess.