Hands On with the PowerColor Radeon RX 9070 XT Red Devil and HellHound

[lukart]

375 Watt for a GPU that competed with the 7900xt. You can't make this stuff up. And people think Blackwell's efficiency is bad ......

I doubt that's the real consumption, it must just allow higher overclocking headroom, Red Devil series are their top oc models.

 

[Marcus L]

I doubt that's the real consumption, it must just allow higher overclocking headroom, Red Devil series are their top oc models.

Not only that, we only have speculation and whispers that the 9070xt won't be faster than a 7900xt/xtx, there is no data to back this up just rumours, whispers and FUD, yes, AMD had hinted they wouldn't compete with NV high end cards aka 4090/5090 etc but this is still a refined arch so not even surpassing their previous high end would be suicide, not to mention higher power requirements, at anything lower than XT/XTX performance this would be a loss, guess we have to wait for that NDA to lift to see what if anything AMD have up their sleeves, they could well bring a rabbit out of their hat and surpass expectations, that in my mind would gain them more market share than saying we can't even improve on our last gen and have regressed, which seems the more likely?

 

[AusWolf]

I doubt that's the real consumption, it must just allow higher overclocking headroom, Red Devil series are their top oc models.

Not only that, we only have speculation and whispers that the 9070xt won't be faster than a 7900xt/xtx, there is no data to back this up just rumours, whispers and FUD, yes, AMD had hinted they wouldn't compete with NV high end cards aka 4090/5090 etc but this is still a refined arch so not even surpassing their previous high end would be suicide, not to mention higher power requirements, at anything lower than XT/XTX performance this would be a loss, guess we have to wait for that NDA to lift to see what if anything AMD have up their sleeves, they could well bring a rabbit out of their hat and surpass expectations, that in my mind would gain them more market share than saying we can't even improve on our last gen and have regressed, which seems the more likely?

Lads, power consumption isn't 375 W. That number is the top of what any card can pull with two 8-pin connectors. It's a theoretical maximum, not an actual value.

 

[Marcus L]

Lads, power consumption isn't 375 W. That number is the top of what any card can pull with two 8-pin connectors. It's a theoretical maximum, not an actual value.

it's 3x8 pin connectors

2x8 is expected, 3x8 is just batshit crazy, theres no way in hell even the top of the line 9070XT would need anywhere near that kind of power requirement based on it's performance expectations, so it does seem a tad odd, but hey' it's an AIB card and not AMD reference, who knows why they put such a extreme power limit on the card, for all we know it could be 50% faster than the 7900 XTX but everyone seems to know the performance of this new GPU without having any factual numbers lol

 

[AusWolf]

it's 3x8 pin connectors

The article says it's 2.

 

[Marcus L]

The article says it's 2.

So I've found more pics of the PowerColor Radeon RX 9070 XT Red Devil and it has 3 8-pin power connectors

View attachment 378933Might be getting my threads mixed up, there's a 3x8pin version circulating also

 

[AusWolf]

Then the article is wrong about the 375 W as well. It's 525 W. The card will come nowhere near in actual power consumption. It's probably just the "look how beefy our card is" marketing trick.

 

[kapone32]

Do GPU vendors reuse PCBs? Yes, I have 2 examples. Sapphire Nitro 7900XTX vs Sapphire Pulse 7900XT. The only difference is the 4 GB VRAM module. The waterblock from Alphacool for the Nitro XTX even fits the Pulse perfectly. I bought an As Rock 6750XT and then last year bought a 7600XT, also from As Rock. They have the exact same PCB, even down to the 2 8 pin connectors. This could be no more than a 6800/7800 PCB being reused by Power Color for this new card.