Thursday, November 3rd 2022
ASUS First OEM to Show Off Custom Radeon RX 7900-series Cards
Although we're over a month away from any kind of actual availability of AMD's just announced Radeon RX 7900 cards, ASUS has already shown off what is the first custom Radeon RX 7900-series cards. The two cards are the TUF Gaming Radeon RX 7900 XTX and unsurprisingly the TUF Gaming Radeon RX 7900 XT. ASUS has gone for what the company calls a 3.63-slot design and the TUF cards appear to be a fair bit taller than the AMD reference designs. ASUS has gone with larger fans, which requires a bigger cooler shroud and the company claims they provide 13.8 percent more airflow and an eight percent increase in static pressure compared to its last gen—presumably Radeon RX 6900—cards, while maintaining the same noise level.
ASUS claims to have added wider vents on the backplate to help improve airflow and to have increased the total heat dissipation area by 22.8 percent, whatever that actually means, as ASUS didn't show off the rear of its cards. The TUF Gaming Radeon RX 7900 XTX sports three 8-pin power connectors and has a 17+4 power stage design. Unlike AMD's reference cards, the ASUS TUF cards won't have a USB-C port at the rear, as the company has gone for three DP 2.1 ports and one HDMI 2.1 port. ASUS didn't reveal clock speeds and the remaining specs are as announced by AMD.
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ASUS claims to have added wider vents on the backplate to help improve airflow and to have increased the total heat dissipation area by 22.8 percent, whatever that actually means, as ASUS didn't show off the rear of its cards. The TUF Gaming Radeon RX 7900 XTX sports three 8-pin power connectors and has a 17+4 power stage design. Unlike AMD's reference cards, the ASUS TUF cards won't have a USB-C port at the rear, as the company has gone for three DP 2.1 ports and one HDMI 2.1 port. ASUS didn't reveal clock speeds and the remaining specs are as announced by AMD.
23 Comments on ASUS First OEM to Show Off Custom Radeon RX 7900-series Cards
All the other anti-sag brackets are ugly.
However it only supports the edge closest to the motherboard. It provides no support for the top (where the power cables plug in).
But it's better than nothing.
At 3.63 slots wide, it's pretty close to the thickness of the previous generation TUF Gaming heatsink for the 3080 and 3090 series cards.
That helps with cooling.
I have multiple cases from ~2000 that support full length PCI cards. And they are steel to the extent that they could probably support the weight of a car. I gues that was before steel got expensive.
If this trend continues, we gonna need a separate case (and PSU) just for the GPU's...
Quick, somebody start makin one & send me my royalty checks like, yesterday, hahahaha :roll:/s
So typical ASUS.... Boring! And a plastic shroud.... Even on their £2000 4090s and on the 3090s they were tat plastic... Such a missed opportunity for extra cooling.
Curious "other" aspect is: three 8-pin and oversize kinda hints at OC-ability.