ASRock Launches AMD Radeon RX 7900 Passive Series Graphics Cards

[Nomad76]

ASRock, the global leading manufacturer of motherboards, graphics cards, mini PCs, and gaming monitors, today launched the first passive series graphics cards -- ASRock AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Passive 24 GB and ASRock AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT Passive 20 GB graphics cards.

ASRock Radeon RX 7900 Passive series graphics cards are powered by the AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX and Radeon RX 7900 XT GPUs. Both of these two cards are supporting multi-GPU collaborative computing, and designed for multi-card parallel computing for better performance. ASRock AMD Radeon RX 7900 Passive series graphics cards are featuring a VAPOR-CHAMBER heatsink, efficiency aluminum cooling fins with v-shaped cutting. Furthermore, thanks to the single horizontal 12V-2x6 power connector, to install couple of ASRock AMD Radeon RX 7900 Passive series graphics cards become much easily due to less power cords.





In additional, ASRock AMD Radeon RX 7900 Passive series graphics cards also have a metal backplate to provide solid construction. Undoubtedly, ASRock AMD Radeon RX 7900 Passive series graphics cards are outstanding choices for systems integrators.



Find more details here: AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX Passive 24 GB or AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT Passive 20 GB.

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[LocutusH]

I guess these will still need a tornado like server fan to blow air trough them. So "passive" seems not the wisest choice of word.

 

[Woomack]

I guess these will still need a tornado like server fan to blow air trough them. So "passive" seems not the wisest choice of word.

I wanted to say the same. It's hard to call it passive when you still need a rack full of small, high-RPM fans. The magic of marketing ...

 

[Jomale]

A water cooled version, for me please.

 

[Chrispy_]

This press release is a mess. Someone at Asrock marketing department needs more coffee!

"the blower fan of ASRock Radeon RX 7900 Passive series graphics cards"

Passive? No.
Blower fan pictured? No.
250W GPU cooled without a fan? No.

Please Asrock, do better. These are GPUs for rack-mounted servers with forced chassis airflow. Using them passively will result in abysmal performance, if not rapid damage to the card. No SME or creator wants this in a workstation that sits within earshot of a human. We're talking 65dBA of screaming delta fans and this is a server-room or datacenter GPU.

I wish companies would make single-fan blower GPUs again. They fell out of favour because manufacturers stopped at 2-slots wide, which is stupid because even dual-slot open coolers need 3 slots of space, so a blower design equivalent to a 2-slot open cooler is 3-slots wide. Now that we have GPUs needing 3 slots and a 4th slot to breathe, I would love to see a 4-slot blower design where ALL 300W of the heat are spat directly out of the back of the case, none of this recycling hot exhaust air nonsense that we have with today's gargantuan open-cooler designs.

 

[ThomasK]

I wish companies would make single-fan blower GPUs again.

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ASRock, the leading global motherboard, graphics card and mini PC manufacturer, today launched their first blower series graphics cards -- ASRock Radeon RX 7900 XTX Creator 24 GB and ASRock Radeon RX 7900 XT Creator 20 GB graphics cards. ASRock Radeon RX 7900 Creator series graphics cards are...

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There you go.

 

[natr0n]

3D print a 120mm bracket to funnel in the air

 

[Chrispy_]

There you go.

Thanks, I hate it.

Most 7900-series cards are 2.5 or 3-slot designs, so the equivalent blower should be 3.5 or 4-slot blower.

That piddly little thing looks like it's going to struggle with a 200W TDP at any fan speed, let alone acceptable noise levels - the heatsink fins aren't even full length!

3D print a 120mm bracket to funnel in the air

Not as useful as you think. The static pressure of an axial fan is nowhere near enough to drive air through such a long column of fins, hence the radial/centrifugal fans normally fitted to blower-style coolers.

When you see a pressure-optimised axial fan like the Phanteks T30 or Gentle Typhoon, they're geared towards a 20-30mm radiator or air-cooler's tower stack, and you still have to double them up or push-pull to get the best results. The fin stacks on these blower cards are usually 5-10x longer than that, and turbulent airflow for efficient heat exchange drop off with distance according to an exponential decay curve.

As a rough figure, the "pressure optimised" axial fans have 2-3x the static pressure of a typical case fan, but for a blower you need order(s) of magnitude (50-200x) more pressure. 2-3x more pressure might as well be nothing at all. Take this with a grain of salt because these are only my rough estimates but I do have a background in computational fluid dynamics, even I'm pretty rusty.

 

[Onasi]

I wish companies would make single-fan blower GPUs again. They fell out of favour because manufacturers stopped at 2-slots wide, which is stupid because even dual-slot open coolers need 3 slots of space, so a blower design equivalent to a 2-slot open cooler is 3-slots wide. Now that we have GPUs needing 3 slots and a 4th slot to breathe, I would love to see a 4-slot blower design where ALL 300W of the heat are spat directly out of the back of the case, none of this recycling hot exhaust air nonsense that we have with today's gargantuan open-cooler designs.

This sounds like a logical conclusion of what HIS was experimenting with - big-large McHuge heatsink with heatpipes, a blower fan of a larger than reference diameter, all the shebang. Shame they aren’t around anymore and pretty much the entire GPU cooling evolution went down the open fan route.

 

[Chomiq]

This is pretty much intended for server use.

 

[Chrispy_]

This sounds like a logical conclusion of what HIS was experimenting with - big-large McHuge heatsink with heatpipes, a blower fan of a larger than reference diameter, all the shebang. Shame they aren’t around anymore and pretty much the entire GPU cooling evolution went down the open fan route.

LOL, yeah - these were good. Funny coincidence...

I just plucked that from the eWaste recycling pile behind me - but as far as I can remember these cards were whisper-quiet and really damn effective.

 

[Onasi]

LOL, yeah - these were good. Funny coincidence...

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Which one is it? I wanna say a 280, but might be wrong there.

 

[Chrispy_]

Which one is it? I wanna say a 280, but might be wrong there.

7970. Works fine, probably - but way too old to be worth selling and useless to us ever since 3GB VRAM was too little which was long before driver support was dropped. Even 12GB GPUs are a problem for us now so we're buying the (abysmal) 4060 Ti 16GB cards as the cheapest 16GB CUDA option.

I wish we could still use AMD GPUs but CUDA dominates the software scene so totally that nothing except Nvidia is actually useful to us.

 

[Onasi]

@Chrispy_
Well, I guess I was technically correct (the best type) since the same chip and all, lol. But yeah, the current situation is abysmal and something tells me it won’t improve next gen. I absolutely wouldn’t be surprised if NV again releases 8 gig cards into mainstream with a bold face and acts lile nothing is amiss.

 

[PCL]

to install a couple of ASRock Radeon RX 7900 Passive series graphics cards become much easily due to less power cords.

Good Lord, that is some sub-AI level grammar right there.

 

[Makaveli]

These would be great in a LLM server.

 

[GhostRyder]

I know these are clearly for rack mounted systems, but I am still shocked they have all the way up to the 7900 XTX chip. I mean that would be interesting to see how it hold up in an average server if nothing else.

(I also would love to see this tested in a normal case just to be funny)

 

[Chrispy_]

I know these are clearly for rack mounted systems, but I am still shocked they have all the way up to the 7900 XTX chip. I mean that would be interesting to see how it hold up in an average server if nothing else.

(I also would love to see this tested in a normal case just to be funny)

You can test it pretty easily yourself.

Just unplug the fans on your XTX and watch it cook at it rapidly climbs to the hotspot throttle temperature and just sits there forever!

 

[dir_d]

I got some 2U servers that this would be nice in. I wanted to try to create a shared graphics server for my kids. This seems like a nice GPU to carve up for VMs, plenty of power.

 

[Chrispy_]

I got some 2U servers that this would be nice in. I wanted to try to create a shared graphics server for my kids. This seems like a nice GPU to carve up for VMs, plenty of power.

Curious how that works for you. I've not successfully carved up a single GPU for multiple VMs for a while now, so I'm out of touch.

 

[dir_d]

Curious how that works for you. I've not successfully carved up a single GPU for multiple VMs for a while now, so I'm out of touch.

There are some tutorials by Jeff from Craft Computing on youtube you should check him out. I will probably do this more toward the end of the year if the price is right.

 

[Lew Zealand]

There are some tutorials by Jeff from Craft Computing on youtube you should check him out. I will probably do this more toward the end of the year if the price is right.

I was thinking the same as I watched those recently, especially as he was trying to do it on a budget with used servers and server CPUs. Hint: Maxwell not good enough, Pascal's OK. But the 1% lows in those setups left much to be desired so I'm not sure of the viability of such a configuration though I love the creativity and tech behind it.

 

[kapone32]

If these are cheaper than GPUs that come with fans then they would make complete sense for those that intend to put a waterblock on the card.

 

[Yashyyyk]

This press release is a mess. Someone at Asrock marketing department needs more coffee!

"the blower fan of ASRock Radeon RX 7900 Passive series graphics cards"

Passive? No.
Blower fan pictured? No.
250W GPU cooled without a fan? No.

Please Asrock, do better. These are GPUs for rack-mounted servers with forced chassis airflow. Using them passively will result in abysmal performance, if not rapid damage to the card. No SME or creator wants this in a workstation that sits within earshot of a human. We're talking 65dBA of screaming delta fans and this is a server-room or datacenter GPU.

I wish companies would make single-fan blower GPUs again. They fell out of favour because manufacturers stopped at 2-slots wide, which is stupid because even dual-slot open coolers need 3 slots of space, so a blower design equivalent to a 2-slot open cooler is 3-slots wide. Now that we have GPUs needing 3 slots and a 4th slot to breathe, I would love to see a 4-slot blower design where ALL 300W of the heat are spat directly out of the back of the case, none of this recycling hot exhaust air nonsense that we have with today's gargantuan open-cooler designs.

When ITX GPU?

I want an ITX / low length/single fan RTX 4070 with 16GB VRAM. (Or rather something like the 1080Ti mini for the 4070Ti (Super/16GB VRAM)) It's ~200W just like the numerous ITX 1080/2070(S)/3060Ti, all ~1 "Liter" in size, so ~200 "Watt per Liter" We should be getting better/more...

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[AusWolf]

I guess these will still need a tornado like server fan to blow air trough them. So "passive" seems not the wisest choice of word.

Exactly. Doesn't really seem passive to me. "Fan not included and must be purchased separately" would have been a more accurate description.