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 13.0 cm, and it weighs 1189 g.


Installation requires three slots in your system.


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.


The card uses a classic dual 8-pin plus PCIe slot power input config, rated for 375 W maximum power. NVIDIA on the other hand uses the new 12+4 pin ATX 12V-2x6 connector, which is rated for up to 600 W of power draw.


This switch lets you disable the card's lighting effects—no software required.

Teardown

The main heatsink uses four 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.