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Sapphire Reveals White Design Radeon RX 6500 XT Polar Elves GPU

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Sapphire has officially boarded the white PCB design train, a trend most popular within China's PC hardware market—the Hong Kong-based graphics card specialist is teasing its oddly named "Power Elves" custom cooling solution. They have decided to pair this new look with non-cutting edge silicon, namely AMD's Radeon RX 6500 XT GPU. The budget Navi 24 XT (RDNA 2) card looks to be cooled by a single fan and heatsink array housed within a shroud approximating a Mini-ITX form factor.

Sapphire appears to using its "Angular Velocity Fan Blade," as seen on its Radeon RX 7000-series PULSE and NITRO custom models, so it is somewhat odd that we are not seeing a new-ish RX 7600 GPU in fresh Polar Elves/all-white livery. Since the company is merely teasing this upcoming 4 GB model (at the time of writing) we can assume that it will be served by the normal single 8-pin power connector, and its name assignment suggests a factory overclock will be applied as standard.



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Power Elves
Santa's new robotic warehouse assistants?

Or did you mean Polar Elves, as the attached picture would suggest?
 
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Beautiful aesthetic but again there’s a mysterious dearth of RX 7600 based ITX options. Compare that to the 4060/Ti with Palit, Gainward and Zotac stepping. That to me is troubling because it signifies a lack of faith in AMD’s midrange offerings.
 
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Santa's new robotic warehouse assistants?

Or did you mean Polar Elves, as the attached picture would suggest?
It's because the Power Elves have Polar Bonus, if you do some switcheroo on the second picture.
 

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Hopefully it's just reference.
 
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Beautiful aesthetic but again there’s a mysterious dearth of RX 7600 based ITX options. Compare that to the 4060/Ti with Palit, Gainward and Zotac stepping. That to me is troubling because it signifies a lack of faith in AMD’s midrange offerings.

Checking PCPP I only see ITX cards from Gainward/Palit (one company) and Zotac, 2 Nvidia-exclusive board partners. MSI and ASUS offer older models in ITX form factors but neither are offering any 4060 or 4060Ti or 7600 ITX models yet. The trouble is in your imagination.
 
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Wasted white PCBs.
Also, still no 8GB variant? That's the only detail that could make this card more usable than an A380 or GTX 1650.
 

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Wasted white PCBs.
Also, still no 8GB variant? That's the only detail that could make this card more usable than an A380 or GTX 1650.
why wasted?
 

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Wasted on a 6500 XT. They should've aimed for RX 7600 at least, or even 6650 XT.

PowerColor had their Hellhound Spectral RX 6650 XT with a white PCB, albeit it was a normal sized PCB, but small enough to fit in almost all ITX cases.
they also had a 6700 xt variant as well. both are essentially not on the market because nobody is selling them.
 

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they also had a 6700 xt variant as well. both are essentially not on the market because nobody is selling them.
No, they're actually sold out now and possibly out of production. They (6650 XT) were on sale for around $330 to $370 on Amazon (S&S by Amazon) for a good part of 2022 and earlier this year.
 
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Make it a 6600 in same size please.
 
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they also had a 6700 xt variant as well. both are essentially not on the market because nobody is selling them.
That is just hyporbole just yesterday over 100 people bought As Rock cards from the 6600 for $259, 6700XT for $459 and 6800XT for $759> I think because As Rock waited before launching their 6000 series cards that the retailers can sell them cheaper. There are more people with AMD cards than the narrative describes.
 

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Ok its a stumpy card like the Fury nano was, now those with sff platforms should get half height editions of this.

I love Sapphire but this is pushing on the verge of being a Yeston...
 

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That is just hyporbole just yesterday over 100 people bought As Rock cards from the 6600 for $259, 6700XT for $459 and 6800XT for $759> I think because As Rock waited before launching their 6000 series cards that the retailers can sell them cheaper. There are more people with AMD cards than the narrative describes.
I'm not talking about ASRock, I'm talking specifically about the PowerColor Hellhound Spectral 6700 XT, 6650 XT, Hellhound Sakura 6650 XT, and Hellhound Spectral 7900 XT. The Hellhound Spectral 6500 XT would be joining their family (they all have white PCB's). I'm not entirely sure where you got ASRock from tbh..
 
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Wasted white PCBs.
Also, still no 8GB variant? That's the only detail that could make this card more usable than an A380 or GTX 1650.
This is to compete with the recent nVidia new cards, competition in mediocrity :D
 
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I'm not talking about ASRock, I'm talking specifically about the PowerColor Hellhound Spectral 6700 XT, 6650 XT, Hellhound Sakura 6650 XT, and Hellhound Spectral 7900 XT. The Hellhound Spectral 6500 XT would be joining their family (they all have white PCB's). I'm not entirely sure where you got ASRock from tbh..
Sorry there has been a lot of hyperbole I misunderstood your statement.
 

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Powercolor makes an 'ITX' sized 6500XT. (I own one. It was what was in-stock when I decided to buy a Navi 24 card.)


This looks like exactly the same card, but in white.
 
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