Tuesday, December 17th 2024
PowerColor to Debut the Reaper Line of Graphics Cards with Radeon RX 8000 Series
PowerColor is planning to introduce a new line of custom-design graphics cards called "Reaper." This fits into the scheme of PowerColor's naming that include Red Devil, Red Dragon, HellHound, and Fighter. The company is planning to debut Reaper with AMD's upcoming Radeon RX 8000 series based on the RDNA 4 graphics architecture. It remains to be seen if Reaper is positioned above the flagship Red Devil series, or something lower, replacing Fighter.
Things are moving rather quickly with the AMD Radeon RX 8000 series, with the company reportedly planning to debut at least two new performance-segment SKUs along the sidelines of the 2025 CES. The two SKUs are rumored to be based on the "Navi 48" silicon, and AMD is gunning for sales volumes and market share by targeting the most bulky market segments, going after the GeForce RTX 5070 series and RTX 5060 series. The RDNA 4 graphics architecture is expected to make big strides in reducing the performance cost of ray tracing, through a more specialized ray tracing hardware setup, besides generational improvements in performance and performance-per-Watt.
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Things are moving rather quickly with the AMD Radeon RX 8000 series, with the company reportedly planning to debut at least two new performance-segment SKUs along the sidelines of the 2025 CES. The two SKUs are rumored to be based on the "Navi 48" silicon, and AMD is gunning for sales volumes and market share by targeting the most bulky market segments, going after the GeForce RTX 5070 series and RTX 5060 series. The RDNA 4 graphics architecture is expected to make big strides in reducing the performance cost of ray tracing, through a more specialized ray tracing hardware setup, besides generational improvements in performance and performance-per-Watt.
12 Comments on PowerColor to Debut the Reaper Line of Graphics Cards with Radeon RX 8000 Series
(In time: isn't the smudged logo on the backplate Red Devil's?)
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5070 Ti
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Soooooo many GPUs are releasing between now and March.
..The last AMD card I owned was one of their X850XT PE in 2005, paired with a 2.4Ghz Pentium 4!
www.powercolor.com/Upload/202407/product_2024073009395910.webp
Voodoo 3 - 1999
Geforce 4 Ti 4200 - 2002
Radeon 9800 Pro (flashed into 9800XT) - 2003
Radeon X850XT - 2005
Radeon HD 3850 - 2007
Geforce 9600 - 2008
Radeon HD 7850 - 2012
Geforce 750 Ti - 2014
Geforce 1050 Ti - 2016
Radeon 5600XT - 2020
Radeon 7900XT - 2022
Can't quite remember my CPUs in that time period but I know they included a couple of Pentium III's, a couple of K8's, Phenom II X6, Haswell, Coffee Lake and Zen 4.
7900XT
The thickness of the 7800XT without the plate seems identical to the news photo:
7800XT
I think it goes without saying... If PowerColor had shown the real photo of the new card it would have caused more of a stir, and it would have been underlined.
It's an image put like that in a generic way.
Awful decision. both destroyed themselves with the failure of a PCB design. first GPUs I've had fail since the BFG 7600gs.
It's only been two generations but I see why we're getting this after retiring Fighter.
PowerColor likes to have a full stack lineup for each generation and this fills the gap.
Fighter is typically the lowest tier product that performs like reference or slightly better.
Since enthusiast cards are taking off again I'm guessing this is more cherry picked silicon for AHOC.
I'm not excited about it but it does give me a shot at playing with branding again.