Sapphire Develops a Fanless RX 5700 XT Card for Rack Airflow

[btarunr]

Sapphire released the GPRO X070 compute graphics card. This is very much a graphics card, in that it has display outputs, and is based on the AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT, but there's a twist—it's completely fanless. The card has a large triple-slot heatsink cooling the GPU, which is designed to rely on external airflow in rackmount cases, and probably won't work on its own in a tower case. Sapphire says its applications include render farms, or V-GPUs. The card features an AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT that runs at reference clock speeds—1905 MHz max boost, 14 Gbps GDDR6 memory. There's also an "Efficiency Mode" enabled through a secondary BIOS, which runs the GPU at 1750 MHz boost, possibly making the card best suited for crypto-currency mining operations.



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[ixi]

Neat, welcome back fanless gpu.

 

[AsRock]

possibly making the card best suited for crypto-currency mining operations.

Awesome, even less chance gamer's can buy a new card.

 

[Caring1]

Nothing a couple of fans can't fix if you want to use it in a desktop.

 

[gyik]

I doubt that you can fit 10 cards with 3 slotted heatsink to that 19" case.

 

[AsRock]

Nothing a couple of fans can't fix if you want to use it in a desktop.

a fan would help but no were near as normal as the airflow is force end to end of the card.

 

[Ravenas]

Nice.

 

[Gmr_Chick]

Awesome, even less chance gamer's can buy a new card.

Um...it's not a gamer's card tho?

 

[nienorgt]

That card would be awesome in a mini ITX case since it's kind of a stock deshouded card.

 

[Fluffmeister]

So this is where the 5700 XT goes to die.

 

[Patriot]

I doubt that you can fit 10 cards with 3 slotted heatsink to that 19" case.

I don't see why not, I could fit 8 teslas and 4 100gbit nics in a 19" case.

 

[Xuper]

Big leap from 1650 to 5700XT ! wow.

 

[8tyone]

Awesome, even less chance gamer's can buy a new card.

Ha Ha Ha Ha...

 

[claster17]

Big leap from 1650 to 5700XT ! wow.

One can dissipate its heat with just convection alone (assuming an open case). The other is designed to sit behind a couple of Delta fans. Strapping on regular fans wouldn't work because the fin stack has a closed top.

 

[AsRock]

Um...it's not a gamer's card tho?

When did i say it was ?.

 

[Gmr_Chick]

Awesome, even less chance gamer's can buy a new card.

Right there

 

[1d10t]

Neat way to dry up some old stock, now just give another finishing touch , reduced warranty

 

[AsRock]

Right there

HUH?, nope. more cards setup for mining so less cards for gamers.

Because uck buying and new card to buy a workable cooler for it. So no it's not with that cooler on it unless you really want to pay even more for it.

 

[ExcuseMeWtf]

Um...it's not a gamer's card tho?

That's their point I'm sure.

More dedicated server/cryptomining cards = less gaming cards, unless they somehow crank up GPU production (which seems pretty unlikely in current "climate").

 

[aktpu]

That card would be awesome in a mini ITX case since it's kind of a stock deshouded card.

Not really. Airflow on this only works from front to rear

 

[Caring1]

Not really. Airflow on this only works from front to rear

Only if you leave the current cooling block on it.

 

[cristi_io]

This remainds me of my old Gigabyte Gtx 8600 GTS Silent Pipe 3, you could slap a fan on top of the radiator:

 

[Aretak]

FANLESS

*if you have twenty 10k RPM fans blowing air onto it

 

[RH92]

FANLESS

*if you have twenty 10k RPM fans blowing air onto it

Finally someone whith a pair of eyes . There is nothing fanless about it , it just relies on external fans ( spinning at insane RPMs ) , good luck to that poor guy buying this and mounting it in a fanless rig !

 

[RedelZaVedno]

Awesome for crypto mining builds. All you need is a few large input in front and a few output fans behind crypto rig to cool 100 or more of these babies. Sapphire go F yourself, I ain't buying anything from you after crypto mining bursts again! Go sell your GPUs to miners!