Yeston Unveils Radeon RX 9070 XT 16 GB "Sakura Atlantis" Card Design

[Outback Bronze]

Ruby was a CGI character.

You taking about this Ruby? Poor old Ruby, still surrounded by Nvidia..

 

[Onasi]

Ruby was a CGI character.

You taking about this Ruby? Poor old Ruby, still surrounded by Nvidia..

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Y’know, maybe there’s something there. Maybe AMD really should re-invent Ruby as a cute anime girl and go full in on the weeb factor. Hell, they can even make a V-tuber out of her in order to promote their tech and sponsored games. I heard that shit is unreasonably big nowadays.

But, what am I saying, that’s too much of a somewhat decent and creative marketing strategy. We all know Radeon is incapable of those and their marketing department would fail miserably at selling water to a thirsting man in the middle of the desert.

 

[tpa-pr]

As a fan of anime, I like 'em I won't be buying one, but still. They don't look AI art too, which is good. It means they're putting in the effort.

 

[Vayra86]

Who's calling it art? It's a retail GPU, it can't be art.

Thank you. Glad that's established

One of the best things about these cards is how angry it makes some people by simply existing

One of the biggest mistakes of people who think differently about anything is that the different people should be demonized by turning them into an angry crowd.

Its a strange thing. You can like something that others do not, and neither side is the lesser or better one to be on. Its just a matter of preference, or utter distaste. My definition of bad taste can change over time, as can yours. Doesn't mean anybody's angry.

 

[Durvelle27]

If only it were available in America

 

[TechLurker]

I feel like there is a market for an AIB to include printable cut-outs/templates/stencils with a nice blank card.

The user could then either keep the card blank, or they could print out a pre-designed or custom designed art template to apply to the backplate of the card.

It would 100% blow up among the glass case crowd and add a neglible cost to the shipped card.

There was one from... Galax, I think. It was a mid-range NVIDIA 2000 series card, and featured a metal backplate with a slotted plastic cover to insert any graphics a user printed out. By default it came with an anime girl background and prepunched holes in the graphic to allow airflow through the vents on one side. Users could take it out and use as a template to cut out their preferred graphic and the airflow holes.

It sold decently well in China last I recall, but not well enough to bring back the concept for later cards. Granted, this was before see-through side panels really became mainstream, so it could have just been a little too early for its time.

The next step is to reverse the fan side somehow; maybe heatpipes taking the heat from the front of the PCB to the back (or just flipping the card around and moving the power plug points so that the chip is top/rear facing in horizontal/vertical position), and putting a "front plate" with graphic on top. Basically intended for vertical GPU mounting. For a fact, some GPU makers will just slap on a full-length LCD screen.

 

[Niceumemu]

Doesn't mean anybody's angry.

You clearly haven't been reading some of these posts then, especially at videocardz