The final stage of manufacturing is packaging. All of the cards are wrapped in protective anti-ESD foils, and protective foam. Some of the cards are boxed in high-volume crates bound for gaming PC OEMs and systems-integrators (who don't need each card to arrive in fancy 1-unit packaging),


Most of the cards bound for the DIY retail channel get 1-unit retail packaging that includes the flashy outer paperboard box, and all the retail-channel inclusions, such as product manuals, warranty literature, and other inclusions such as power adapters or display dongles (if required by a GPU model). This package also allows PowerColor to add other inclusions such as screw drivers, stickers and merchandise, etc., in Special Edition retail packages.


Packaging is highly region-specific. Cards bound for mainland Chinese domestic market may have a different set of inclusions than, say, cards bound for the EMEAI region, or the North American region (such as literature in different languages, region-specific warranty literature, RMA forms, etc). 5-10 retail boxes make up a crate (brown box). 30 of these brown boxes make up a pallet. About 4-5 of these pallets are forklifted into shipping containers, and away they go!

Parting Thoughts

We would like to thank TUL Corporation and PowerColor for this invaluable opportunity to visit one of their factories, where we could see its latest Radeon RX 7000 series graphics cards being made right before our eyes. The factory is filled with exuberant and chilled out engineers who know what they're doing, and love their jobs. We only now realize the last time we did a graphics card factory tour was 18 years ago, when PC Partner invited us to tour their Sapphire factory. It's amazing to see how much ICT manufacturing has advanced over these years for what is essentially the same commodity—a graphics card. We're sure PC Partner has a similarly advanced factory.

A lot of care goes into manufacturing a graphics card, right from making sure they lack hazardous materials, to making sure each component meets quality standards, to each major step in the product assembly. This care is incentivized because a graphics card that comes back to the factory as RMA, is the costliest possible outcome for PowerColor. This is why the company is meticulous about its manufacturing, and doesn't mind going the extra mile with testing both during and after the assembly. It's you, the consumer, that stands to gain the most from this, as you're assured of a graphics card that performs as expected and won't let you down during your gameplay.