Gigabyte Launches AMD Radeon RX 6600 Eagle 8G Graphics Card

[HenrySomeone]

But I don't think that was the point - rather that the 3070 Turbo is kind of the antithesis of this card, with woefully underbuilt cooling for a relatively power hungry card, rather than extremely overbuilt cooling for a low-power card.

Woefully underbuilt? It's not the 3090 and cards of this power (and higher too) always existed in blower variants, just like the use cases for them (=several of them in a rack). Actually, if this review is to be believed, it's actually very good at keeping the temps in check:

ASUS Turbo GeForce RTX 3070 review: Excellent gaming performance

During the last few weeks, we had the chance to test and play with one of the most elusive computer components of these days: an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 graphics card. We got it inside a prebuilt desktop computer powered by ASUS because that’s one of the few ways you find it right now, at […]

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"While running the benchmarks, we also found out that the ASUS Turbo GeForce RTX 3070 video card needs about 200 Watts of power. And, in the end, another important element is the heat produced by the video card. To see how hot the card gets, we ran Furmark for about an hour while monitoring the temperatures. What we found was that the ASUS Turbo GeForce RTX 3070 card doesn’t get hotter than 66 degrees Celsius (151 Fahrenheit). In other words, this is one cool graphics card!"

Now, it obviously won't be quiet at load, but in its primarily intended use case (AI, rendering), this isn't an issue.

 

[Valantar]

Woefully underbuilt? It's not the 3090 and cards of this power (and higher too) always existed in blower variants, just like the use cases for them (=several of them in a rack). Actually, if this review is to be believed, it's actually very good at keeping the temps in check:

ASUS Turbo GeForce RTX 3070 review: Excellent gaming performance

During the last few weeks, we had the chance to test and play with one of the most elusive computer components of these days: an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 graphics card. We got it inside a prebuilt desktop computer powered by ASUS because that’s one of the few ways you find it right now, at […]

www.digitalcitizen.life

"While running the benchmarks, we also found out that the ASUS Turbo GeForce RTX 3070 video card needs about 200 Watts of power. And, in the end, another important element is the heat produced by the video card. To see how hot the card gets, we ran Furmark for about an hour while monitoring the temperatures. What we found was that the ASUS Turbo GeForce RTX 3070 card doesn’t get hotter than 66 degrees Celsius (151 Fahrenheit). In other words, this is one cool graphics card!"

Now, it obviously won't be quiet at load, but in its primarily intended use case (AI, rendering), this isn't an issue.

If it's running at 200W then Asus have restricted the power limit by 25W compared to a stock 3070, which is not insignificant. Obviously not enough to make the difference between a quiet and cool vs. a loud and hot card, but if that's the case then it says something about the expectations of the cooler. The temperatures do look good, though given that there is no mention of clocks and power draws (and the methodology in that review is generally vague and poorly described) I don't trust that without further explanation. It's entirely possible that FurMark makes the card power throttle hard, for example (which the 200W reading could be seen to corroborate - if it runs 200W under 3DMark, it's entirely possible that a strict power limit will put it lower under FurMark. There's also no mention whatsoever of fan noise. It still looks better cooled than I would expected, but there is far too much information missing for me to change my overall view.

 

[Vya Domus]

Why would you need a triple-fan cooler on a 130W GPU?

Dissipating heat is tricky in a mining rig.

 

[Valantar]

Dissipating heat is tricky in a mining rig.

True enough. Though don't most of those take off the stock fans and put high speed case fans nearby anyhow? A heatsink designed for two slightly larger fans might be a better fit for that use case depending on the installation.