Then I guess this isn't the card for them. It's the largest, fastest, most power-hungry 5700XT on the market at the moment and that's how MSI are marketing it.
Criticising its sheer size makes about as much sense as complaining that monster-truck wheels are too big. This card has the biggest cooler on purpose. If someone is interested in a compact, power-efficient card then they are looking in completely the wrong place!
Maybe I didn't clarify it before, I'm not just knocking on this card for having a triple slot cooler. I'm just questioning why all the 3rd party card that feature triple slot cooler didn't get that particular detail listed as a con and in my last post, I specify that I'm actually criticizing the 5700XT GPU for being very hot.
To add, just because MSI is marketing it as
the largest, fastest, most power-hungry 5700XT on the market at the moment, doesn't mean they get a freebie when it comes to the design and function.
EDIT:
Another point I'd like to add is that while the 5700XT is behind the performance per power of an RTX 2070 Super, the reference design (read: clockspeed ) card is still relatively efficient compared to some of the other Radeon's offering so it is still quite the power-efficient card when you're looking at it's performance tier and there are markets for people looking for compact but powerful card and/or looking for a Radeon card as well.
By that standard, this MSI card with it's unnecessarily high factory overclock is just a fail in my opinion because the performance improvements are so minuscule (3-4%), yet it increases the power consumption in gaming (average and peak) by 23%. If MSI had kept the reference clock, and work on a dual-slot cooler, I'm sure the temperature while higher than this version, would still be much better the reference blower style cooler of the reference 5700XT.
