Thursday, January 16th 2025
PowerColor Uploads Lots of Radeon RX 9070 XT Red Devil Promo Images
PowerColor has updated its website with a Radeon RX 9070 XT Red Devil product page—this is the first example of an RX 9000 series model being officially listed alongside their existing selection of (exclusively) AMD GPU-based graphics cards. The Taiwanese brand has not published any technical specifications—Team Red RDNA 4 NDAs are likely still in effect—but a pleasing number of Radeon RX 9070 XT Red Devil promotional images have been uploaded. A limited edition package (with alleged bundled extras) seems to be in the pipeline—VideoCardz has provided visual evidence of a fancy container (see below).
Teaser images appeared online at the start of this year—close-ups of glowing signature red parts were accompanied by an ominous message: "every edge shines like a gem. Every second burns like fire. If power was in your hands, how would you use it?" Days later, TechPowerUp inspected a fully unveiled Red Devil demonstration sample at CES 2025—new Hellhound and Reaper designs were also within reach. PowerColor's freshly uploaded images reveal one major difference—VideoCardz adeptly points out the presence of two 8-pin power connectors on the promos, while the CES example possessed three physical inputs. They theorize that renders of PowerColor's Radeon RX 9070 (non-XT) Red Devil model have appeared on the XT's product page. Beyond discrepancies in connector counts, the overall design matches that of the Las Vegas showcase model.
Sources:
PowerColor Product Page, VideoCardz
Teaser images appeared online at the start of this year—close-ups of glowing signature red parts were accompanied by an ominous message: "every edge shines like a gem. Every second burns like fire. If power was in your hands, how would you use it?" Days later, TechPowerUp inspected a fully unveiled Red Devil demonstration sample at CES 2025—new Hellhound and Reaper designs were also within reach. PowerColor's freshly uploaded images reveal one major difference—VideoCardz adeptly points out the presence of two 8-pin power connectors on the promos, while the CES example possessed three physical inputs. They theorize that renders of PowerColor's Radeon RX 9070 (non-XT) Red Devil model have appeared on the XT's product page. Beyond discrepancies in connector counts, the overall design matches that of the Las Vegas showcase model.
12 Comments on PowerColor Uploads Lots of Radeon RX 9070 XT Red Devil Promo Images
Reference cards from AMD/Nvidia use blower type cooling solution. in that case there is a single fan in the gpu that pushes the hot air outside of the case. The air comes out of the vents from the back(where you have the DVI/HDMI slots)
Now many companies use their own type of coolers to cool the card. In those cases the fans blow air directly to the graphics card's heatsink and the hot air comes out from the sides and vents of the Graphics card. The hot air eventually ends up inside the case. So you will need your case to be well ventilated.
Watch this video and you will have all your doubts cleared:
forums.tomshardware.com/threads/where-does-gpu-heat-go.2476795/#post-16164296
These coolers are really good at cooling the GPU quietly. I have yet to see a single blower style cooler that doesn't sound like a jet about to take off. The heat getting dumped outside the case is nice but at what cost. More noise and higher gpu temps. Would be great if we could have our cake and eat it.
Too small heatsink:
Both AMD and Nvidia have stopped using blower designs. Nvidia stopped with the 2000 series, AMD with the RX 6000s. Open frame coolers, like AIBs have used for over a decade now, allow far larger heatsinks and larger fans, which are substantially quieter. They also run cooler, consistently, in GPU testing, ESPECIALLY with big cards.
A modern "blow through" design, in case you havent noticed by the name, allows air to be blown through the back of the card, and results in the best possible temperatures. Any case today, even cheapo cases, have sufficient ventilation to allow this type of card to work.
videocardz.com/newz/asrock-radeon-rx-7900-creator-series-to-feature-blower-fan-and-12v-2x6-connector
smokblowing?