Packaging

The Card

The unique selling point of the ASRock Steel Legend is its white color theme. ASRock added some gray highlights on the back, which look good. The cooler shroud is made of plastic, but the backplate is metal.


Dimensions of the card are 30.5 x 13.5 cm, and it weighs 1180 g.


Installation requires three slots in your system. The card's width is 55 mm.


ASRock has added RGB illuminated fans to their card—looking great!


Display connectivity includes three standard DisplayPort 2.1 ports (RDNA 2 had 1.4a) and one HDMI 2.1a (same as RDNA 2).

AMD has upgraded their encode/decode setup. It now comes with two independent hardware units that can encode and decode two streams of video in parallel, or one stream at double the FPS rate. There's support for VP9, H.264, H.265 and AV1 decode, and encoding is supported for H.264, H.265 and AV1.


All AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT and RX 7700 XT designs use dual 8-pin PCIe power connectors. To the left of the power connectors, ASRock has placed a switch to toggle the RGB lighting effects—very useful—no software required.

Teardown

The main heatsink uses five heatpipes. It also provides cooling for the memory chips and VRM circuitry.


The backplate is made of metal and protects the card against damage during installation and handling.