ASRock Radeon RX 7900 XTX Taichi White

[W1zzard]

The ASRock Radeon RX 7900 XTX Taichi White comes with an amazing design that will look fantastic in any white-themed build. It's also factory overclocked with a large OC out of the box, and the cooler does a great job at keeping the card cool, or whisper-quiet when you activate the "quiet" BIOS.

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[P4-630]

Weirdly enough the "Quiet BIOS" makes the hotspot run cooler?..


Overall a cool running GPU though!

 

[W1zzard]

Weirdly enough the "Quiet BIOS" makes the hotspot run cooler?..

because it runs the gpu at lower clocks

 

[P4-630]

because it runs the gpu at lower clocks

I would just add that...

 

[BorisDG]

And still not with white PCB.

 

[Taisho]

The 35 dB from cooler performance comparison doesn't look like a real use case anymore. Everything decent much below 60 degrees Celsius. No point to keep temps this low.

 

[zo0lykas]

because it runs the gpu at lower clocks

Don't waste your time on people who have no idea what means quiet..

 

[mechtech]

the white tax is expensive............

 

[Nostras]

And still not with white PCB.

The hellhound one has a white PCB.

Honestly unless you're really looking to OC the snot out of your card just get a hellhound white edition for much less.

@W1zzard I'm bugging you to test a hellhound again, even if it's only the cooler performance comparison.
It's been consistently the cheapest card (with sometimes the PG card) and I'm really curious how it stacks up.
Kitguru says it's good.

PowerColor RX 7900 XTX Hellhound Spectral White Review - KitGuru

In PowerColor's own words, 'Hellhound has long been guarding the gaming underworld and is committed

www.kitguru.net

But their comparison is lacking a LOT of data lol.

Edit again: I just realized you haven't tested any XTX Powercolor cards at all :/

 

[friocasa]

I'm dissapointed, no sexy waifu, ex: https://wccftech.com/maxsun-unveils...i-lineup-including-anime-waifu-graphics-card/

 

[Daven]

I want it so bad…

 

[Prince Valiant]

When did the charts change from low to high? Threw me off for a moment .

 

[wheresmycar]

$120 increase for being white? discriminator!!

I've done 2 builds in white and picked up a third used system in white but all the cards are non-white. Either they're hard to find or unavailable, overpriced or short of the full appeal (aesthetics, performance, temps, etc)

I like the sound of:

• Very powerful cooler
• Extremely quiet (quiet BIOS)
• Low temperatures

and take a point off for:

• Large increase in power consumption over reference design

 

[Hxx]

The hellhound one has a white PCB.

Honestly unless you're really looking to OC the snot out of your card just get a hellhound white edition for much less.

@W1zzard I'm bugging you to test a hellhound again, even if it's only the cooler performance comparison.
It's been consistently the cheapest card (with sometimes the PG card) and I'm really curious how it stacks up.
Kitguru says it's good.

PowerColor RX 7900 XTX Hellhound Spectral White Review - KitGuru

In PowerColor's own words, 'Hellhound has long been guarding the gaming underworld and is committed

www.kitguru.net

But their comparison is lacking a LOT of data lol.

Edit again: I just realized you haven't tested any XTX Powercolor cards at all :/

i was looking at hellhound vs taichi because white pcb and 2 8 pin plugs but reddit is basically littered with people complaining about coil whine on the hellhound both black and white. Even kitguru complained about it. so if thats something u care about i would probably pass

 

[Pumper]

I have to ask, does the VLC video playback power consumption correspond to the Youtube playback? I don't watch videos on VLC on my desktop, so it does not really matter to me, but I'm playing Youtube/Twitch videos in the background almost all the time while I'm browsing/working, so that power draw alone would kill any desire to get a Radeon.

 

[Gungar]

Don't waste your time on people who have no idea what means quiet..

Quiet means lower fans speed, nothing to do with clock speeds. I mean you can just open a dictionary.

 

[Nostras]

i was looking at hellhound vs taichi because white pcb and 2 8 pin plugs but reddit is basically littered with people complaining about coil whine on the hellhound both black and white. Even kitguru complained about it. so if thats something u care about i would probably pass

I have the original one and coil whine is fine. I think it's more because it's so popular (because it's so cheap).

 

[Vayra86]

i was looking at hellhound vs taichi because white pcb and 2 8 pin plugs but reddit is basically littered with people complaining about coil whine on the hellhound both black and white. Even kitguru complained about it. so if thats something u care about i would probably pass

FWIW, my Asrock 7900XT PG only whines at >200 FPS, which I consider an excellent result as almost every card whines at excessive FPS. But YMMV, its always hard to tell if this is partner specific, model specific or just fabrication differences for each unit.

Gotta say though, XTX is looking pretty good in those overall charts and so does the general positioning in RT, imho. What struck me most of all is how RDNA3 excels at higher resolutions, and how it edges closer to the 4090 not in just raster, but also in RT performance. If you factor in the gap in transistor count that is an extremely impressive result. It gives us a window on the future of RDNA, and it looks very bright indeed, especially considering it is chiplet based. 57.7 billion and just an 18% gap to 4090 is incredible, especially if you consider the 'expensive GCD' is just 300mm2. The reason this pops out to me now, is because we're now seeing what happens if AMD had allowed XTX a stock TDP closer to what the 4090 has. There is quite some headroom.

There is a LOT of strange stuff going on as you move up in resolutions with RT enabled, especially in the Nvidia camp. Sometimes 4K and 1440p show the same FPS % loss, other times it keeps growing as you move up in resolutions, which seems to be the norm for Nvidia with RT, while RDNA3 barely seems to lose more relative % FPS as you move from 1440p to 4K. And there are a few titles where RDNA3 just chokes completely with a loss of 60%. One thing I could distill here from the charts and how the XTX and the 4080 swap spots everywhere, is that the additional bandwidth definitely already shows the XTX can get wings as time progresses and games push heavier on VRAM. Forget capacity... bandwidth is key here. The 4070ti confirms that with its measly 500GB/s and resulting 4K numbers, often underperforming already today, especially in games where averages are sub 100 FPS (where it matters most).

Quiet means lower fans speed, nothing to do with clock speeds. I mean you can just open a dictionary.

Or you can just use context of the topic at hand instead The question before this was why the junction/hot spot temp was lower on a quiet bios with lower fan speed.

 

[W1zzard]

When did the charts change from low to high? Threw me off for a moment .

2023, took me a while to adjust, too, but it’s more natural now and aligns better with other publications

I have to ask, does the VLC video playback power consumption correspond to the Youtube playback? I don't watch videos on VLC on my desktop, so it does not really matter to me, but I'm playing Youtube/Twitch videos in the background almost all the time while I'm browsing/working, so that power draw alone would kill any desire to get a Radeon.

Yes, both use gpu hardware decode acceleration. Using vlc to avoid dependency on internet/bandwidth/ping, and youtube secretly changing things like bitrate, buffering, codec etc

The 4070ti confirms that with its measly 500GB/s and resulting 4K numbers

The gpu also has a much smaller cache

 

[Prince Valiant]

2023, took me a while to adjust, too, but it’s more natural now and aligns better with other publications


Yes, both use gpu hardware decode acceleration. Using vlc to avoid dependency on internet/bandwidth/ping, and youtube secretly changing things like bitrate, buffering, codec etc

I see, thank you. I'm sure I'll get used to it soon enough.

 

[W1zzard]

I just realized you haven't tested any XTX Powercolor cards at all :/

Powercolor has been avoiding my reviews, possibly because of the detailed testing. I do have a sample coming from them though for a launch very soon

 

[Nostras]

Powercolor has been avoiding my reviews, possibly because of the detailed testing. I do have a sample coming from them though for a launch very soon

7600 Fighter?

 

[Kirederf]

Why is the card reporting to run at PCI-E x16 @ 3.0 speeds in the OC page?

ASRock Radeon RX 7900 XTX Taichi White Review - O_o Sexy

The ASRock Radeon RX 7900 XTX Taichi White comes with an amazing design that will look fantastic in any white-themed build. It's also factory overclocked with a large OC out of the box, and the cooler does a great job at keeping the card cool, or whisper-quiet when you activate the "quiet" BIOS.

www.techpowerup.com

 

[bonehead123]

And still not with white PCB.

the white tax is expensive............

$120 increase for being white? discriminator!!

Say what you will about the performance, specs or whatever, but the fact remains that this is a falsely advertised "WHITE" card, and a moar expensive one too, compared to it's non-colored brothers...

Shadeshunz on you AsSRock.......

 

[Hxx]

Say what you will about the performance, specs or whatever, but the fact remains that this is a falsely advertised "WHITE" card, and a moar expensive one too, compared to it's non-colored brothers...

Shadeshunz on you AsSRock.......

99.99% of so called “white” cards currently available are not fully white so at this point I’m just giving up . That combined with the fact that they are being released late like why not have this variant on day 1 … or whenever the regular taichi came to market. Not sure what they gained by delaying it and same goes with powercolor Msi etc