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PowerColor has updated its website with a Radeon RX 9070 XT Red Devil product page—this is the first example of an RX 9000 series model being officially listed alongside their existing selection of (exclusively) AMD GPU-based graphics cards. The Taiwanese brand has not published any technical specifications—Team Red RDNA 4 NDAs are likely still in effect—but a pleasing number of Radeon RX 9070 XT Red Devil promotional images have been uploaded. A limited edition package (with alleged bundled extras) seems to be in the pipeline—VideoCardz has provided visual evidence of a fancy container (see below).

Teaser images appeared online at the start of this year—close-ups of glowing signature red parts were accompanied by an ominous message: "every edge shines like a gem. Every second burns like fire. If power was in your hands, how would you use it?" Days later, TechPowerUp inspected a fully unveiled Red Devil demonstration sample at CES 2025—new Hellhound and Reaper designs were also within reach. PowerColor's freshly uploaded images reveal one major difference—VideoCardz adeptly points out the presence of two 8-pin power connectors on the promos, while the CES example possessed three physical inputs. They theorize that renders of PowerColor's Radeon RX 9070 (non-XT) Red Devil model have appeared on the XT's product page. Beyond discrepancies in connector counts, the overall design matches that of the Las Vegas showcase model.



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Blowthrough is the way to go for air cooling. Lower temps and less noise. Just wish we didn't need anti sag brackets or vertical mounting.

Nope. The hot air from the card is thrown directly onto the neighbouring components - overheating M.2 SSDs, CPUs, RAM modules, and overall increasing the in-case temperatures.

Reference cards from AMD/Nvidia use blower type cooling solution. in that case there is a single fan in the gpu that pushes the hot air outside of the case. The air comes out of the vents from the back(where you have the DVI/HDMI slots)
Now many companies use their own type of coolers to cool the card. In those cases the fans blow air directly to the graphics card's heatsink and the hot air comes out from the sides and vents of the Graphics card. The hot air eventually ends up inside the case. So you will need your case to be well ventilated.

Watch this video and you will have all your doubts cleared:



 
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Nope. The hot air from the card is thrown directly onto the neighbouring components - overheating M.2 SSDs, CPUs, RAM modules, and overall increasing the in-case temperatures.

Reference cards from AMD/Nvidia use blower type cooling solution. in that case there is a single fan in the gpu that pushes the hot air outside of the case. The air comes out of the vents from the back(where you have the DVI/HDMI slots)
Now many companies use their own type of coolers to cool the card. In those cases the fans blow air directly to the graphics card's heatsink and the hot air comes out from the sides and vents of the Graphics card. The hot air eventually ends up inside the case. So you will need your case to be well ventilated.

Watch this video and you will have all your doubts cleared:




Nvidia Founders Edition coolers are blowthrough as far as I know. In my experience heat hitting other components is worse without blowthrough, especially when the fins are perpendicular to the motherboard (more heat is dumped right onto the nvme drives).

These coolers are really good at cooling the GPU quietly. I have yet to see a single blower style cooler that doesn't sound like a jet about to take off. The heat getting dumped outside the case is nice but at what cost. More noise and higher gpu temps. Would be great if we could have our cake and eat it.
 
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I'll never own another blower style GPU as long as I can help it. My last was a Nvida Zotac 580 in SLI. Yeahhhhh, I won't be doing that again - NOISE!
 
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I have yet to see a single blower style cooler that doesn't sound like a jet about to take off.

I'll never own another blower style GPU as long as I can help it.

The problem with the legacy blower cards was that the attached heatsinks were too small. Today, you get 5-slot monster heatsinks, so problem is solved. The turbine will run at lower speeds.

Too small heatsink:

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Nope. The hot air from the card is thrown directly onto the neighbouring components - overheating M.2 SSDs, CPUs, RAM modules, and overall increasing the in-case temperatures.

Reference cards from AMD/Nvidia use blower type cooling solution. in that case there is a single fan in the gpu that pushes the hot air outside of the case. The air comes out of the vents from the back(where you have the DVI/HDMI slots)
Now many companies use their own type of coolers to cool the card. In those cases the fans blow air directly to the graphics card's heatsink and the hot air comes out from the sides and vents of the Graphics card. The hot air eventually ends up inside the case. So you will need your case to be well ventilated.

Watch this video and you will have all your doubts cleared:



This is hilariously incorrect.

Both AMD and Nvidia have stopped using blower designs. Nvidia stopped with the 2000 series, AMD with the RX 6000s. Open frame coolers, like AIBs have used for over a decade now, allow far larger heatsinks and larger fans, which are substantially quieter. They also run cooler, consistently, in GPU testing, ESPECIALLY with big cards.

A modern "blow through" design, in case you havent noticed by the name, allows air to be blown through the back of the card, and results in the best possible temperatures. Any case today, even cheapo cases, have sufficient ventilation to allow this type of card to work.
 
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That's a big chungus. I'll wait for the Hellhound and Reaper.
 
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Both AMD and Nvidia have stopped using blower designs.

Blower is the best . Period .


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This is hilariously incorrect.

Both AMD and Nvidia have stopped using blower designs. Nvidia stopped with the 2000 series, AMD with the RX 6000s. Open frame coolers, like AIBs have used for over a decade now, allow far larger heatsinks and larger fans, which are substantially quieter. They also run cooler, consistently, in GPU testing, ESPECIALLY with big cards.

A modern "blow through" design, in case you havent noticed by the name, allows air to be blown through the back of the card, and results in the best possible temperatures. Any case today, even cheapo cases, have sufficient ventilation to allow this type of card to work.
While you're right, @3valatzy isn't wrong about the benefits to the rest of the system's thermals. I upgraded from an open air 290X to a reference Vega 64, i.e. a blower, and despite the Vega chugging down as much or even more power than its predecessor, all of the other components in my system were cooler.
 
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Blower is the best . Period .


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While you're right, @3valatzy isn't wrong about the benefits to the rest of the system's thermals. I upgraded from an open air 290X to a reference Vega 64, i.e. a blower, and despite the Vega chugging down as much or even more power than its predecessor, all of the other components in my system were cooler.
I never had a temp issue with my setup and its not a blower
 
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Nope. The hot air from the card is thrown directly onto the neighbouring components - overheating M.2 SSDs, CPUs, RAM modules, and overall increasing the in-case temperatures.

Reference cards from AMD/Nvidia use blower type cooling solution. in that case there is a single fan in the gpu that pushes the hot air outside of the case. The air comes out of the vents from the back(where you have the DVI/HDMI slots)
Now many companies use their own type of coolers to cool the card. In those cases the fans blow air directly to the graphics card's heatsink and the hot air comes out from the sides and vents of the Graphics card. The hot air eventually ends up inside the case. So you will need your case to be well ventilated.

Watch this video and you will have all your doubts cleared:



Maybe it would be slightly better for case but for the GPU itself it is worse.
Blower type fins are longer and by the time air gets close to the end it’s hot enough and does not cool the last portion of the fins, or it’s doing much less cooling.
That’s why most current GPUs have perpendicular fins to the length of the card. To keep fins the shortest possible plus to take advantage of more air from 2-3 fans.
If the air flow is enough any SSD below, under or above the GPU is affected negligible because the air coming out of the GPU cooler does not get too hot.
I have an SSD buried under my 3.5 slot card with a simple board cooler on it and is a couple of degrees warmer that the SSD above the GPU. Both below 50C for the NAND cells.

Requirement is the good system air flow so no hot spots/areas are present.
 
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The problem with the legacy blower cards was that the attached heatsinks were too small. Today, you get 5-slot monster heatsinks, so problem is solved. The turbine will run at lower speeds.

Too small heatsink:

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Clearly this is the hill you want to die on... got it.
 
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Maybe it would be slightly better for case but for the GPU itself it is worse.
Blower type fins are longer and by the time air gets close to the end it’s hot enough and does not cool the last portion of the fins, or it’s doing much less cooling.
That’s why most current GPUs have perpendicular fins to the length of the card. To keep fins the shortest possible plus to take advantage of more air from 2-3 fans.
If the air flow is enough any SSD below, under or above the GPU is affected negligible because the air coming out of the GPU cooler does not get too hot.
I have an SSD buried under my 3.5 slot card with a simple board cooler on it and is a couple of degrees warmer that the SSD above the GPU. Both below 50C for the NAND cells.

Requirement is the good system air flow so no hot spots/areas are present.
Not to mention blower cards can't utilise heatpipes so effectively, as the pipes get into contact with much fewer fins over a much shorter length. With fins perpendicular to the motherboard, you can run heatpipes across the whole length of the card - otherwise, you only have the card's width to work with.
 
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Dunno about you guys, but I extended the heatsink shroud of my old AIB HD 5770 with plain old paper when I OC'd it and it worked rather well.
Air came out the backplate and minimum heat was being sent to the rest of the case.
Of course, this was back when both the heatsink and the shroud were not bigger than the PCB, so it was kind of easy to 'box' the air and force it out trough a specific place.
Right now, with these designs, just getting hot air as fast as possible out of the case is the way to go, imo. Front-to-back case designs seem to be the most adequate in doing this, if the cooling setup is air alone.
 
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I get the fact that blower type coolers were confined to small enclosures hence lower performance, but given how much space the current gpus are taking, i would love to see a new blower type coolers were confined using as much space as these new gpus do.

I think and i am ok in being wrong, that blowing all the hot air around as current coolers do, is detrimental to all the other components, but blowing it out via the backplate would eliminate that extra heat.
 

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I get the fact that blower type coolers were confined to small enclosures hence lower performance, but given how much space the current gpus are taking, i would love to see a new blower type coolers were confined using as much space as these new gpus do.

I think and i am ok in being wrong, that blowing all the hot air around as current coolers do, is detrimental to all the other components, but blowing it out via the backplate would eliminate that extra heat.
Given how large many cards are, I feel like there's room for blower cards equally as large but using one or more axial fans to blow through and out the back panel.
 
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I get the fact that blower type coolers were confined to small enclosures hence lower performance, but given how much space the current gpus are taking, i would love to see a new blower type coolers were confined using as much space as these new gpus do.

I think and i am ok in being wrong, that blowing all the hot air around as current coolers do, is detrimental to all the other components, but blowing it out via the backplate would eliminate that extra heat.
The problem is that there's only so much heat you can remove through the back panel (among other issues mentioned above).

Personally, I'm happy that the blow-through design exists. It pretty much blows onto the system RAM which isn't an overly heat sensitive component. Then the heat gets picked up by the CPU cooler, which also shouldn't be a problem because your CPU shouldn't get too hot while playing a game.

Of course blowing straight out of the case would be even better, but what can we do with 2-300+ W cards?
 

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Of course blowing straight out of the case would be even better, but what can we do with 2-300+ W cards?
It was commonly done in the past with mid 200w cards, I don't see why it couldn't be offered today on at least some models. If these companies could pull it off 10-15+ years ago, I'd like to hope they could do it even better today, or achieve similar results with somewhat higher wattages.

Sure, they might have higher running temps than the best flow through designs, but I feel there's still a place for offerings that exhaust that heat out of the case.
 
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Given how large many cards are, I feel like there's room for blower cards equally as large but using one or more axial fans to blow through and out the back panel.
The problem is that there's only so much heat you can remove through the back panel (among other issues mentioned above).

Personally, I'm happy that the blow-through design exists. It pretty much blows onto the system RAM which isn't an overly heat sensitive component. Then the heat gets picked up by the CPU cooler, which also shouldn't be a problem because your CPU shouldn't get too hot while playing a game.

Of course blowing straight out of the case would be even better, but what can we do with 2-300+ W cards?
RAM and cpus are actually sensitive to heat and currently, gpus are producing the highest amount of heat in a case.

The current design blows really hot air on all directions and everything else gets affected by it.

Example, I have a Junsbo D30 with a glass panel and my 7900xtx blows hot air against it, plus against the motherboard, warming up my nvme drive and then all the heat recirculate around the cpu until it exits the case at the top. But by that time, the damage is done.

If i remember correctly, the main issue with blowers was noise, not efficiency.

Well, one negative was those coolers were a pain to dust off, since they were closed up.

But a new design can help with that.

I just think that we should give the blower type coolers another chance before dismissing then without testing.
 
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It was commonly done in the past with mid 200w cards, I don't see why it couldn't be offered today on at least some models. If these companies could pull it off 10-15+ years ago, I'd like to hope they could do it even better today, or achieve similar results with somewhat higher wattages.

Sure, they might have higher running temps than the best flow through designs, but I feel there's still a place for offerings that exhaust that heat out of the case.
True - I could see the design work on lower end cards. I wouldn't want to see it on flagships, though, because of the noise.

RAM and cpus are actually sensitive to heat and currently, gpus are producing the highest amount of heat in a case.

The current design blows really hot air on all directions and everything else gets affected by it.

Example, I have a Junsbo D30 with a glass panel and my 7900xtx blows hot air against it, plus against the motherboard, warming up my nvme drive and then all the heat recirculate around the cpu until it exits the case at the top. But by that time, the damage is done.
Have you ever tested how much your GPU running full blast warms up your CPU? I'm genuinely curious. :)

If i remember correctly, the main issue with blowers was noise, not efficiency.

Well, one negative was those coolers were a pain to dust off, since they were closed up.
Yep - that's one kind of efficiency: thermal performance vs noise.

Personally, I play with speakers so noise is an important thing for me. Thermals, not so much as long as they're under control.
 
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Processor AMD R5 5600X
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Cooling Artic Freezer II 120
Memory 16 GB
Video Card(s) Sapphire Pulse 7900 XTX
Storage 2 TB SSD
Case Cooler Master Elite 120
Have you ever tested how much your GPU running full blast warms up your CPU? I'm genuinely curious. :)
I am in between cases (Junsbo and CM Elite 120) using the stock cooler on a 5600x.

In the Junsbo, I ha 3 120 mm fans at the bottom, pushing fresh air in, hitting the gpu fist, then spreading around until is pushed out at the top. I will tell you, that exhaust air was really hot.

The moved to the Elite 120, since its a lot smaller.

In the Elite, the cpu is kind of boxed in by the psu and the gpu with little access to fresh air.

The Elite is currently running without a cover because the gpu wont let me use the cover without modifying it.

I dont have hard numbers (yet, will get them in the next couple of days ) but in both scenarios, my 5600x its running almost at 90C.

I want to switch to a S400 case, but that means that i will need to swap my psu, which is a Corsair 1K that is around 155mm long for a SFX.

Also, i want to upgrade to an AM5 combo, so yeah, it wont be soon.
 
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