Tuesday, January 14th 2025
Sapphire Semi-reveals Dual-Fan Pulse Radeon RX 9000 Design
Sapphire has half revealed its new PULSE graphics card design—yesterday's social media post provided an early look at the signature black/gray shroud adorned with red lines. This seems to be Sapphire's first push into marketing their upcoming AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT and 9070 (non-XT) custom designs. TechPowerUp handled and inspected a new Sapphire PURE model at last week's CES trade event—this particular sample was included in a round-up of Team Red's partner custom designs—but the newly revealed PULSE card was not showcased.
According to a VideoCardz report, Sapphire's new Radeon RX 9000-series NITRO+ model has been teased in AMD's CES-oriented marketing material. The Hong Kong-based tech graphics card specialist chose to not send their Navi 48-based flagship over to Las Vegas—industry experts believe that AIBs are eagerly waiting on Team Red to settle on and announce an official release date. Marketing campaigns are expected to fully kick in closer to RDNA 4's launch window.
Sources:
Sapphire Technology Tweet, VideoCardz
According to a VideoCardz report, Sapphire's new Radeon RX 9000-series NITRO+ model has been teased in AMD's CES-oriented marketing material. The Hong Kong-based tech graphics card specialist chose to not send their Navi 48-based flagship over to Las Vegas—industry experts believe that AIBs are eagerly waiting on Team Red to settle on and announce an official release date. Marketing campaigns are expected to fully kick in closer to RDNA 4's launch window.
23 Comments on Sapphire Semi-reveals Dual-Fan Pulse Radeon RX 9000 Design
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I really don't like that mesh part on the new leaked design.
Is this mid-range ? :rolleyes:
minimalist = simple
Example on art:
"belonging or relating to a style in art, design, and theatre that uses the smallest range of materials and colours possible, and only very simple shapes or forms"
So from this point of view the Nitro+ 7900XTX is more simple design in exterior view, aka minimalist.Those who have the space and want the GPU as cooled as possible without getting annoyed by noise.
Works really great...
Edit: Oh whoops, that reply should have gone to @dj-electric.
I can answer
You can say that this design is a more minimalistic one against another if the former has simpler lines and/or colors from latter.
That mesh is enough to make it less minimalist against the prev gen.
That was the point of @dj-electric
Or am I just missing something ?
You are missing the very first picture, yes.Meh, can be properly done with smaller solutions too, I would wager the Nitro will be excessive - one of those cases of a card running sub-60 for no reason and 20db vs, say, 26 on simpler design, which is irrelevant practically. I personally draw a line for anything that requires an unironic support brace. That just screams “we have stretched the PCI-e AIB standard to unreasonable limits” to me.
This new design with mesh is without the doubt much edgier more rectangular and uglier, more "brick-ier". However, the mesh itself IMO is much wiser move towards card's cooling capablities. Might be as well a move to simplify the design to save the manufacturing money.
From left to right... the 4 pics
Pulse, Pure, Pure, Nitro
- underclock and undervolt, while losing 0% performance
- put a smaller heatsink to save from the BOM
These designs are not good. Should be redesigned.
I run mine at 365~382W (467W max, hence 3.5slot)
...and done some testing only up to 420~440W. Not worth it.
At 365~380W with a cooler designed for 467W the GPU works cooled and low noise
Last column is avgs (CP2077)
This is after 1+years without cleaning it... yet!