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Around late January, out-of-date AMD marketing material teased the existence of a Radeon RX 9070 series reference card design. Almost a month later, PC hardware news outlets picked up on an official signal about Team Red's launch lineup consisting entirely of board partner-produced options. First-party enthusiasts were disappointed by the apparent total lack of "Made by AMD" (MBA) solutions, but some unusual specimens appeared online roughly two weeks post-RDNA 4's launch. Reports pointed to triple-fan Radeon RX 9070 XT and dual-fan RX 9070 MBA cards being exchanged for cash via Chinese black market channels. Photographed examples seemed to sport a somewhat muted black shroud design—not quite as exciting when compared to AMD's marketed/rendered brushed metal effect promo units.
Members of the Chiphell forum have spent months leaking many aspects of Team Red's foray into a new generation of graphics architecture—going back to the days of old nomenclature: Radeon RX 8800 XT. Yesterday, one participant revealed their fresh purchase of a Radeon RX 9070 non-XT MBA card. They sold their old GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER 12 GB graphics card, in favor of Navi 48 GPU-based OEM hardware. The post focused mainly on photo uploads and screenshots, but a brief description stated: "purchased at original price (TPU note: presumably 4499 RMB), room temperature is 16 degrees Celsius. Dual fans on the front. The back panel has an AMD logo, but it's a sticker." As theorized by VideoCardz, AMD likely produced a limited number of pre-release "public" MBA cards. The publication reckons that partner companies have received a smattering of samples for evaluation or software development purposes. The presence of an old school Radeon logo (pre-RDNA era) is a head scratcher, given the unit's supposed first-party origin.
VideoCardz kindly interpreted the Chiphell post into a fully-descriptive form: "the card was tested in Furmark, 3DMark TimeSpy, and Steel Nomad, which concluded that the card was performing just as expected from the Radeon RX 9070. Apparently, the card is also correctly recognized as the RX 9070 16 GB, so it was definitely not an early engineering sample but a final version. The cooler keeps the GPU at 67°C after 8 minutes of testing, while the hotspot temperature seems to be around 84°C. There's no mention of how loud it is nor how it compares to other cards, but the average temperature seems to be within what one would expect from such a simple design."
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Members of the Chiphell forum have spent months leaking many aspects of Team Red's foray into a new generation of graphics architecture—going back to the days of old nomenclature: Radeon RX 8800 XT. Yesterday, one participant revealed their fresh purchase of a Radeon RX 9070 non-XT MBA card. They sold their old GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER 12 GB graphics card, in favor of Navi 48 GPU-based OEM hardware. The post focused mainly on photo uploads and screenshots, but a brief description stated: "purchased at original price (TPU note: presumably 4499 RMB), room temperature is 16 degrees Celsius. Dual fans on the front. The back panel has an AMD logo, but it's a sticker." As theorized by VideoCardz, AMD likely produced a limited number of pre-release "public" MBA cards. The publication reckons that partner companies have received a smattering of samples for evaluation or software development purposes. The presence of an old school Radeon logo (pre-RDNA era) is a head scratcher, given the unit's supposed first-party origin.
VideoCardz kindly interpreted the Chiphell post into a fully-descriptive form: "the card was tested in Furmark, 3DMark TimeSpy, and Steel Nomad, which concluded that the card was performing just as expected from the Radeon RX 9070. Apparently, the card is also correctly recognized as the RX 9070 16 GB, so it was definitely not an early engineering sample but a final version. The cooler keeps the GPU at 67°C after 8 minutes of testing, while the hotspot temperature seems to be around 84°C. There's no mention of how loud it is nor how it compares to other cards, but the average temperature seems to be within what one would expect from such a simple design."
View at TechPowerUp Main Site | Source
