PowerColor HD 7970 X2 Devil 13 Taken Apart

[btarunr]

Here are the first pictures of PowerColor's ambitious Radeon HD 7970 X2 Devil 13 dual-GPU graphics card taken apart. The pictures reveal a PCB that's both longer and taller than that of the HD 7970, to create room for two 28 nm "Tahiti" GPUs, a total of 24 GDDR5 memory chips (12 on each side), a PLX PEX8747 PCIe 3.0 bridge chip, and a VRM that consists of 5+2+1 phases per GPU system. The card draws power from three 8-pin PCIe power connectors. The VRM consists of solid-state chokes and Renesas Driver-MOSFETs. Display outputs include two each of DVI and mini-DP, and an HDMI. Each GPU system has a pair of BIOS'es (performance and failsafe).



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[_JP_]

Damn, what a beast!
And YEY for fans with frames! Finally they make it easy to replace them.

 

[dickobrazzz]

i think fans are too small..
pcb - not bad

 

[radrok]

Damn, what a beast!
And YEY for fans with frames! Finally they make it easy to replace them.

And you can slap some absurdly high RPMs Delta or San Aces in

 

[_JP_]

And you can slap some absurdly high RPMs Delta or San Aces in

Exactly! This is what makes this cooler good. IIRC, I've already seen it on another card, on an older news article.

 

[SIGSEGV]

where is AMD's officially HD7990 ?? Bring it on..

 

[GSG-9]

I read this article as 24gb of memory. Felt puzzled, read it again as 24gb of memory. I then stared at the numbers 24 for a while. Then it clicked, and the product seemed less ridiculous.