Sunday, December 11th 2022
PowerColor Reveals the Red Devil 7900-series
Three weeks ago, PowerColor teased its Radeon RX 7900-series Red Devil cards on social media, but now the company has revealed more details of its upcoming cards. Oddly enough, PowerColor hasn't gone for RGB fans here, unlike its Hellhound cards, although the Red Devil cards do have a lot of RGB accents. A unique, if somewhat pointless feature is that the Red Devil cards come with a removable backplate cover, so you can choose to have a "plain" metal backplate, or a rather unusual looking backplate that appears to be made mostly out of plastic.
As with the Hellhound cards, PowerColour has used a 14-layer PCB for the Red Devil cards, but has added a 21st VRM for some reason, as the Hellhound cards "only" have 20 VRMs. The heatsinks with eight heatpipes appear to be nigh on identical to the one used on the Hellhound cards. PowerColour has also installed a side-mounted metal bracket to help prevent GPU sag, but it appears as if the bracket only reaches half way down the length of the card. The Red Devil cards have three 8-pin power connectors. What is unclear is what type of display interfaces the cards will have, as PowerColor didn't provide an image of that side of the cards, but based on the PCB picture, USB-C doesn't appear to be part of the mix.
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As with the Hellhound cards, PowerColour has used a 14-layer PCB for the Red Devil cards, but has added a 21st VRM for some reason, as the Hellhound cards "only" have 20 VRMs. The heatsinks with eight heatpipes appear to be nigh on identical to the one used on the Hellhound cards. PowerColour has also installed a side-mounted metal bracket to help prevent GPU sag, but it appears as if the bracket only reaches half way down the length of the card. The Red Devil cards have three 8-pin power connectors. What is unclear is what type of display interfaces the cards will have, as PowerColor didn't provide an image of that side of the cards, but based on the PCB picture, USB-C doesn't appear to be part of the mix.
28 Comments on PowerColor Reveals the Red Devil 7900-series
on the other hand they slap a bunch of crap on there to semblance design of some kind which just looks wasteful and ugly.
in the end I dont give a crap myself, as long as it preforms well.
As for the acurateness, there are so many forms of English...
It gives the opportunity to create backplates that change the looks of the card and not get stuck with the same thing that cost over 1000$ look the same for years.
To me, simplicity on this feature is very welcomed.
For those who don't like it, don't buy it, that's the beauty, it's not like the other designs that you have to be stuck with same thing, now I want to see what other backplates they might have coming up.
5700 XT Powercolor (sold) - > Vega 64 Powercolor (sold) -> 6900 XTXH Powercolor -> 6950XT Powercolor.
Their software sucks but theirs cards are performers for sure. I recommend to all. I have a 6900XTXH Asrock and it is a performer too. TPU editor choice.
My 6900 XTXHs hit clocks at 2700 on AIR. My 6950XT does the same, but the memory over locks to 2350.
I highly recommend Powercolor, but they need to wake up and start providing TPU with review samples. They are trying to go the way of content creators…
Only thing I remember about powercolor is they were overprised and only gpu's in stock at micro center during the mining buttshow.
Yeah the hot spot I keep reading about on amd gpu's could be an elevator to hell :roll:
Plastic is also a great insulator, trapping more heat inside the GPU & creating a more devil'ish gaming experience. :cool: ™
So basically, Powercolor cards have always been great since my first one (Powercolor Radeon X800 XT), just don't buy it for the RGB lighting.