AMD Releases RDNA 2 Cooler Designs

[cj09beira]

3 hours ago, PacketMan said:

Looks, the shape in the Radeon logo is too... gamer-ish

I'd rather have a nice and sober design, because if it's not the reference one I'm afraid there might not be any

what is gamerish about a word?

[TVwazhere]

1 hour ago, porina said:

VirtualLink! So nvidia has given up on it, I don't recall seeing it on 30 series AIB cards, only now AMD decide to adopt it?

I noticed it too, It's definitely absent on the RTX3000 series. 

[Guest]

18 minutes ago, valdyrgramr said:

 

 

 

You should remember that these are made by Sapphire, not AMD.   So, it's possible Sapphire changed the cooler design from the VII and Navi to improve on the cooling on the reference models.   The R was probably requested by Radeon.

Doesn't change anything I said.

[Mateyyy]

34 minutes ago, valdyrgramr said:

You should remember that these are made by Sapphire, not AMD. 

Source? Cooler Master is pretty much the go-to manufacturer when it comes to reference coolers - that's the case with the AMD Wraith coolers, Nvidia's reference coolers, as well as Intel's. I can't imagine it's any different in this case.

34 minutes ago, valdyrgramr said:

So, it's possible Sapphire changed the cooler design from the VII and Navi to improve on the cooling on the reference models.

Well... yeah. You make better coolers for better cooling performance. Why else would they bother lol

[miagisan]

Design isn't bad.  Looks better than the nvidia cards, but I agree with a previous poster, I loved the radeon VII look.  

[GDRRiley]

13 hours ago, cj09beira said:

there is only really 2 options gddr6 or gddr6X, with X being most likely exclusive to nvidia at least for a while, the likelihood of it being gddr6 is really high, and the difference isn't that high between them, gddr6 does 14-18gbps gddr6x does 19-21gbps

Almost all the recent dies have versions of the die with HBM for the instinct cards

there will likely be a split, near the top HMB and at the bottom GDRR6

[NumLock21]

Only 2 DP, 1 HDMI, and 1 USB C for virtual link. I assume the word RADEON will be a cutout to act as cooling, and not what the picture is showing. XFX does it to their cards too, can't remember other brands doing it too.

 

[Doobeedoo]

18 hours ago, dizmo said:

Speaking of power connectors, they're by far what I find most interesting. Dual 8 pin. More meaty than what they had on the 5700XT.

I mean obviously though since RX 5700 XT wasn't really a flagship GPU even though it's their best one yet. It's really a replacement for Radeon VII with better architecture, smaller die, better efficiency and around there performance. This one is the actual flagship now.

[Doobeedoo]

Hmm I think it looks rather solid. People saying it's too gamery... like what, have you seen custom designs of cards? Most looks like alien lambos. Only not a fan of metallic plate between the fans though, maybe if it was not curved it would look better. I probably glows red on those borders and logo. I don't mind that. The video outputs number is odd.

[cj09beira]

2 hours ago, valdyrgramr said:

You should remember that these are made by Sapphire, not AMD.   So, it's possible Sapphire changed the cooler design from the VII and Navi to improve on the cooling on the reference models.   The R was probably requested by Radeon.

made by sapphire doens't mean it was completely design by sapphire

[Drama Lama]

I think the Radeon VII looked better

this looks just like any other 3rd party card

[Drama Lama]

1 minute ago, valdyrgramr said:

VII ref looks more like a pro card, tbh.

The Vega 64 limited edition also looks good - for a blower style card

[RejZoR]

Sapphire used to be a vendor who made "Made by ATi" cards back in the day.

[yolosnail]

Sorta-update:

Jay of JayzTwoCents has shown a photograph in his latest video of the 'actual' card that he was sent by a 'source'. I kind of agree that it would have looked so much better without the red trim

 

 

[Senzelian]

Looks fantastic in my opinion.
I don't really see the "gamery" look and to me it looks rather clean.
 

[porina]

8 minutes ago, yolosnail said:

Jay of JayzTwoCents has shown a photograph in his latest video of the 'actual' card that he was sent by a 'source'.

At least it shows there is room for air to escape from that edge. 

[yolosnail]

18 minutes ago, Senzelian said:

Looks fantastic in my opinion.
I don't really see the "gamery" look and to me it looks rather clean.
 

The thing that puts me off is the red trim, but that's something a black sharpie can deal with in 2 minutes. The rest of it looks great compared to the render

[Senzelian]

5 minutes ago, yolosnail said:

The thing that puts me off is the red trim, but that's something a black sharpie can deal with in 2 minutes. The rest of it looks great compared to the render

Yup, sharpie can fix that, but I think the better solution is to just buy a Sapphire card, which is what most people will do anyways.

[RejZoR]

The red trim is nothing compared to what AIB's put on the cards. And it can be modded in no time with little tools required.

[dizmo]

42 minutes ago, Doobeedoo said:

I mean obviously though since RX 5700 XT wasn't really a flagship GPU even though it's their best one yet. It's really a replacement for Radeon VII with better architecture, smaller die, better efficiency and around there performance. This one is the actual flagship now.

I'd hope so considering the Radeon VII was never a proper gaming card.

[samcool55]

Aaand Jay also leaked a more basic cooler for the (probably) mid-end cards in the same video, for the people that didn't bother to watch it.

 

 

[Parideboy]

I would have prefered if the trim was just a pulsing red led or something

[Doobeedoo]

39 minutes ago, dizmo said:

I'd hope so considering the Radeon VII was never a proper gaming card.

Yeah true Radeon VII wasn't really planned to be released actually. It was more of bridge-gap card to release something and also test manufacturing process.

[Mateyyy]

4 minutes ago, valdyrgramr said:

 BTW, since I couldn't find the answer from Sapphire a long time ago I shot Cooler Master a message, and a social media person is going to ask around for me to see if it's them, Sapphire, or if AMD actually does it themselves.   Because according to people on Reddit Sapphire used to, some say Cooler Master do it, official information only states the CPU cooler/the wraith, and there's technically no "official" info on the matter unless I missed it.

I've looked online for a while and yeah I couldn't find anything clear about who's actually manufacturing the coolers on the Radeon side, just Ryzen. It'd be an interesting find.

[porina]

19 hours ago, porina said:

VirtualLink! So nvidia has given up on it, I don't recall seeing it on 30 series AIB cards, only now AMD decide to adopt it?

Just watched Bitwit's video on this, and Kyle speculates that it isn't VirtualLink since it is dead. He questions if it is USB3 only, or Thunderbolt capable. Here I'm more fuzzy about which standards also support (easily adapted) video out. I would hope it would support passive adapting to either HDMI or DP.