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PowerColor Announces its Hellhound 7900-series Graphics Cards

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With 11 days to go until the official launch of AMD's Radeon 7900-series graphics cards, PowerColor decided to share some more details about its upcoming cards. The two models appear to be the Hellhound Radeon RX 7900 XTX and the Hellhound Radeon RX 7900 XT, with both cards apparently sharing the same design and cooler. The cards appear to be at least triple-slot, but it's not entirely clear from the provided pictures. PowerColor is using a nine-blade fan design and the fans are of course kitted out with LEDs, where PowerColor is pushing what it calls an "amethyst purple" colour for this generation of Hellhound cards. The new fans are said to improve the GPU temperatures by as much as three degrees Celsius compared to the previous generation of fans.

More importantly, the cards have been given an improved backplate, as well as a larger copper plate for the heatsink, for improved cooling. The new copper plate doesn't just cover the GPU now, but also the VRAM chips. The copper plate is connected to eight 6 mm heatpipes. PowerColor also shared that it's using a 14-layer high TG PCB, which uses a two ounce copper power layer. The RX 7900 XTX is kitted out with 20 VRMs, although this appears to be straight from the AMD reference design. PowerColor appears to have implemented a dual BIOS on the card, as there's a switch for OC/Silent operation and the card also appears to have a hardware LED switch, which is nice for those that don't care about lighting up their computer like a Christmas tree. Keep in mind that this is not PowerColor's top-of-the-range card, which is the Red Devil, so we should expect more details on those cards in the future too.



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was the name Cerberus taken or something?

Anyway, I have heard good about previous PowerColor GPU's so I am most curious how much this will cost (edit: and perform) to determine if I may actually go AMD for main GPU or not.
 
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Doesn’t look great but probably doesn’t need to. The FE model looks way better. Waiting to see the sapphire cards
 

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Feels cheap for high end card.

Looks strange with this gigantic heatsink covered by something that looks like a blindly plopped over it shroud with fans.
 
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Still no official release date for these which sucks, is it the 13th or a week or two after...
 

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Still no official release date for these which sucks, is it the 13th or a week or two after...

I wouldn't buy it. Better Sapphire, ASRock, ASUS or Gigabyte (in this order).
 
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I wouldn't buy it. Better Sapphire, ASRock, ASUS or Gigabyte (in this order).
I would never plan on buying one from Powercolor but would like one of these AIB to leak a release date lol
 
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Getting real tired of these unnecessary triple-slot cards.
 
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Feels cheap for high end card.
Hellhound is the lowest tier in PowerColors line-up. It’s like an MSI Ventus or Gigabyte Eagle. Higher tiers are Red Dragon and Red Devil. And a Liquid Devil with an EKWB block.
 
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Hellhound is the lowest tier in PowerColors line-up. It’s like an MSI Ventus or Gigabyte Eagle. Higher tiers are Red Dragon and Red Devil. And a Liquid Devil with an EKWB block.
I think the Fighter line is a lower tier than Hellhound.
 
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This goes back to my comment about Radeon cards almost forced to look like a cheaper alternative. Here hoping that some designs will rely on or at least duplicate the success of RTX 4080 coolers, just this time without the massive size.
 
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Feels cheap for high end card.
Well it IS a powercolor. In my personal experience their looks are paired with cheap ass boards.

Both of my vega 64s that fried themselves were power colors.
 
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Hellhound is the lowest tier in PowerColors line-up. It’s like an MSI Ventus or Gigabyte Eagle. Higher tiers are Red Dragon and Red Devil. And a Liquid Devil with an EKWB block.

Still a high end card. $899 and $999 and feels like a $400 card.
 
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Wish there was more white cards. Son wants white to match his case lol
 

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was the name Cerberus taken or something?

Anyway, I have heard good about previous PowerColor GPU's so I am most curious how much this will cost (edit: and perform) to determine if I may actually go AMD for main GPU or not.

Cerebus was taken by asus just as Dragon was taken by MSI
 
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Cerebus was taken by asus just as Dragon was taken by MSI
I didn't know Asus had a cereberus line honestly. Never heard it used for a part but sure have heard hellhound which seemed odd to me.
 
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Well it IS a powercolor. In my personal experience their looks are paired with cheap ass boards.

Both of my vega 64s that fried themselves were power colors.
Actually, I prefer cards from AMD's exclusive AIBs, that is Sapphire/PowerColor/XFX, but the higher tier models.

I've sworn off Gigabyte, though they make really good mobos, I'd had two GB Vega64 Gaming OC die on me, just after warranty and within a couple of months of each other. Meanwhile. My PC Vega64 Red Devil is still soldiering on.
 
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