Packaging

The Card

The XFX RX 7900 XTX Magnetic Air introduces a fresh new design that looks mighty good. The design language is very clean, with some red highlights around the fans and along the top edge of the card. On the other side you'll find a metal backplate that has a cutout for air to flow through.


Dimensions of the card are 34.5 x 13.5 cm, and it weighs 1863 g.


Installation requires three slots in your system. We measured the card's width to be 68 mm.


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 triple 8-pin plus PCIe slot power input config, rated for 575 W maximum power.


The card comes with a white-illuminated XFX logo, the color is fixed and can't be changed (or turned off).


The dual BIOS switch lets you switch to a secondary "higher power target" BIOS.

Teardown

The thermal solution on the XFX RX 7900 XTX Magnetic Air uses a vapor-chamber and has eight heatpipes. The main heatsink also provides cooling for the memory chips and VRM circuitry.


The backplate is made of thick metal and protects the card against damage during installation and handling, as well as reduces GPU sag once installed. It is also curved, which improves the look and feel of the product.

Magnetic Air Fans

This is the highlight of the new "Magnetic Air" lineup by XFX. The fans can be removed easily, without any tools in just a second or two. Gently pull them upwards and they will come off.


Note the inner "circles" of electrical contact area, which ensure that the four contact pins (second picture) make contact no matter how you place the fan. This inner part (with the contacts and sticker) does not move when the fans are turning, so there's no risk of scraping off the contact area.


The fans are precision-engineered, everything is of excellent build quality.