PowerColor Reveals the Red Devil 7900-series

TheLostSwede · Dec 11, 2022

Three weeks ago, PowerColor teased its Radeon RX 7900-series Red Devil cards on social media, but now the company has revealed more details of its upcoming cards. Oddly enough, PowerColor hasn't gone for RGB fans here, unlike its Hellhound cards, although the Red Devil cards do have a lot of RGB accents. A unique, if somewhat pointless feature is that the Red Devil cards come with a removable backplate cover, so you can choose to have a "plain" metal backplate, or a rather unusual looking backplate that appears to be made mostly out of plastic.

As with the Hellhound cards, PowerColour has used a 14-layer PCB for the Red Devil cards, but has added a 21st VRM for some reason, as the Hellhound cards "only" have 20 VRMs. The heatsinks with eight heatpipes appear to be nigh on identical to the one used on the Hellhound cards. PowerColour has also installed a side-mounted metal bracket to help prevent GPU sag, but it appears as if the bracket only reaches half way down the length of the card. The Red Devil cards have three 8-pin power connectors. What is unclear is what type of display interfaces the cards will have, as PowerColor didn't provide an image of that side of the cards, but based on the PCB picture, USB-C doesn't appear to be part of the mix.

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Dammeron · Dec 11, 2022

The card looks so much better without that plastic cover on the backplate.

Veseleil · Dec 11, 2022

The design is getting worse with each generation.

Mysteoa · Dec 11, 2022

Is it 3+ slots again? It better perform quite better than the reference.

Guwapo77 · Dec 11, 2022

The card looks great without the goofy swappable back plates.

Chaitanya · Dec 11, 2022

So now even PowerColor might be dropping illuminated IO panel.

zlobby · Dec 11, 2022

'PowerColour'?

Veseleil · Dec 11, 2022

zlobby said:
'PowerColour'?

British English. Even though it isn't correct in terms of the company name, it's more accurate in the grammar sense. Some of us have that info in a "read only" folder.

ZoneDymo · Dec 11, 2022

not sure what to think of this, on the one hand its pure function over form, which I can appreciate.
on the other hand they slap a bunch of crap on there to semblance design of some kind which just looks wasteful and ugly.

in the end I dont give a crap myself, as long as it preforms well.

Kohl Baas · Dec 11, 2022

Guwapo77 said:
The card looks great without the goofy swappable back plates.

It's not swappable. Just a cover to put on if you like.

Ravenas · Dec 11, 2022

Awesome!!!!!!

Guwapo77 · Dec 11, 2022

Kohl Baas said:
It's not swappable. Just a cover to put on if you like.

I read somewhere else it was swappable. But yeah nontheless...its still goofy.

Mistral · Dec 11, 2022

I was going to go reference but not having a glowing RADEON logo is a bummer, realy liked it on the 6000 series. The Red Devil looks sick, might just wait a while and grab that.

zlobby · Dec 11, 2022

Veseleil said:
British English. Even though it isn't correct in terms of the company name, it's more accurate in the grammar sense.

Yeah, I knew that. I was just curious about it because it's 50/50 in the article.

As for the acurateness, there are so many forms of English...

ir_cow · Dec 11, 2022

I wonder if PowerColor started to use RGB LEDs instead of just red for the IO panel and backplate. Like whats the point in RGB if half the card is stuck in red lol. Looking at you 5700 XT and 6900 XT.

Veseleil · Dec 11, 2022

zlobby said:
Yeah, I knew that. I was just curious about it because it's 50/50 in the article.

As for the acurateness, there are so many forms of English...

It's awkward really. I read color and colour the same way without noticing, but when i write I always do colour, as I feel that one letter missing and it bugs me. And the damn internet is against me all the time (spellchecking).

lukart · Dec 11, 2022

Why would anyone complain about the swappable backplate, it's ridiculous.
It gives the opportunity to create backplates that change the looks of the card and not get stuck with the same thing that cost over 1000$ look the same for years.
To me, simplicity on this feature is very welcomed.
For those who don't like it, don't buy it, that's the beauty, it's not like the other designs that you have to be stuck with same thing, now I want to see what other backplates they might have coming up.

Ravenas · Dec 11, 2022

ir_cow said:
I wonder if PowerColor started to use RGB LEDs instead of just red for the IO panel and backplate. Like whats the point in RGB if half the card is stuck in red lol. Looking at you 5700 XT and 6900 XT.

I’m a pretty loyal Powercolor user since 5700XT.

5700 XT Powercolor (sold) - > Vega 64 Powercolor (sold) -> 6900 XTXH Powercolor -> 6950XT Powercolor.

Their software sucks but theirs cards are performers for sure. I recommend to all. I have a 6900XTXH Asrock and it is a performer too. TPU editor choice.

My 6900 XTXHs hit clocks at 2700 on AIR. My 6950XT does the same, but the memory over locks to 2350.

I highly recommend Powercolor, but they need to wake up and start providing TPU with review samples. They are trying to go the way of content creators…

kapone32 · Dec 11, 2022

I will be on Newegg at Midnight to see what is available.

ThrashZone · Dec 11, 2022

Hi,
Only thing I remember about powercolor is they were overprised and only gpu's in stock at micro center during the mining buttshow.

Veseleil · Dec 11, 2022

Ravenas said:
I’m a pretty loyal Powercolor user since 5700XT.

5700 XT Powercolor (sold) - > Vega 64 Powercolor (sold) -> 6900 XTXH Powercolor -> 6950XT Powercolor.

Their software sucks but theirs cards are performers for sure. I recommend to all. I have a 6900XTXH Asrock and it is a performer too. TPU editor choice.

My 6900 XTXHs hit clocks at 2700 on AIR. My 6950XT does the same, but the memory over locks to 2350.

I highly recommend Powercolor, but they need to wake up and start providing TPU with review samples. They are trying to go the way of content creators…

Red Devil 5700XT has probably the best board of all the AIB's. There's a Buildzoid's review of it. When I was in the market for those, I've chosen the Nitro+ between the two, as I really can't stand satanic symbolism, especially as a "cool" factor.

ThrashZone · Dec 11, 2022

Hi,
Yeah the hot spot I keep reading about on amd gpu's could be an elevator to hell :roll:

MarsM4N · Dec 11, 2022

Veseleil said:
The design is getting worse with each generation.

Response from the PowerColor designer:

Plastic is also a great insulator, trapping more heat inside the GPU & creating a more devil'ish gaming experience. :cool:

™

Guwapo77 · Dec 12, 2022

MarsM4N said:
Response from the PowerColor designer:

Plastic is also a great insulator, trapping more heat inside the GPU & creating a more devil'ish gaming experience. ™

Plastic cover is for those who like to undervolt their cards and run them at max 50w.

lightning70 · Dec 12, 2022

My favorite was Nitro+, it looks legendary.

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PowerColor Reveals the Red Devil 7900-series

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