*Leaked* Asrock is making desktop graphic cards after all (confirmed with products links inside!)

[Sauron]

4 hours ago, ApolloFury said:

It has stupid weird lines and angles all over the place, are they targeting kids?

Of course they are, it turns out that people with lots of time to spare and an interest in graphical fidelity are often kids. Older gamers typically don't care about the card's looks either way, so they market to the demographic that might care. In the end it's most likely going to be face down in a windowless case, so it doesn't really matter (rx series customers usually don't have the budget to chase looks, though there are exceptions).

[leadeater]

5 hours ago, Đỗ Đức Huy said:

ha ha ha ha now I can include them as source to comply with the forums rules!

That's not how it.... ah screwed it .

 

Also cool, actually announced.

[MeDownYou]

So does this confirm that we won't get the 7nm vega refresh until after then?

[Energycore]

12 hours ago, NelizMastr said:

OH NOES a gaming brand. Getting shrekt by Nvidia in 3.....2.....1......  

There's a chance AsRock does AMD only like Sapphire or XFX

[Energycore]

3 hours ago, mr moose said:

I don't know about anyone else, but I'd much rather buy a card called the phantom from Asrock than something from ECS called the Gank drone l337...

 

 

Am I the only one who didn't care about aesthetics and instead went "wait is that only 2 heatpipes on that 580 cooler?"

 

Edit: I should really gitgud @ multiquoting

[8uhbbhu8]

2 minutes ago, Energycore said:

Am I the only one who didn't care about aesthetics and instead went "wait is that only 2 heatpipes on that 580 cooler?"

 

Edit: I should really gitgud @ multiquoting

Yeah that's kinda odd. Those better be damn good heatpipes too. Even my XFX variant which is considered one of the best out their needs better cooling then it has.

 

 

Yeah git gud noob  

[SliceT]

2 hours ago, Energycore said:

There's a chance AsRock does AMD only like Sapphire or XFX

 

Looks like so, hopefully that will bring more competition on the AMD GPUs and the prices will drop somehow.

Asrock is known to have great stuff with very decent pricing. 

[mr moose]

7 hours ago, Energycore said:

Am I the only one who didn't care about aesthetics and instead went "wait is that only 2 heatpipes on that 580 cooler?"

 

Edit: I should really gitgud @ multiquoting

I didn't notice, but then I am more interested in product marketing and place than I am in the actual hardware.  I get excited about the specifics when they become an actual option to buy for me.

[cj09beira]

i love how they are also overclocking the memory, its been a long time since someone did that

[Trixanity]

15 hours ago, MeDownYou said:

So does this confirm that we won't get the 7nm vega refresh until after then?

7nm isn't ready till late this year and any large scale production will probably wait till 2019.

7nm Vega will be for enterprise only* anyway so not gonna be of any interest to consumers. Consumers will wait for Navi.

 

*subject to change if it suddenly makes sense due to yields and/or lack of enterprise sales

[i_got_laid_by_a_dragoness]

580 looks like shit

[cj09beira]

6 hours ago, Trixanity said:

7nm isn't ready till late this year and any large scale production will probably wait till 2019.

7nm Vega will be for enterprise only* anyway so not gonna be of any interest to consumers. Consumers will wait for Navi.

 

*subject to change if it suddenly makes sense due to yields and/or lack of enterprise sales

btw 7nm vega shouldn't be too expensive when 7nm yields become reasonable as it will be around 250mm^2, the most expensive part will probably be the hbm and packaging/interposer

[NumLock21]

These cards seems to be for mining. No wonder it only has 1 DVI port in those pics.

[Ironi]

On 28 maart 2018 at 1:25 PM, Đỗ Đức Huy said:

Continuing with the tease from Asrock a few days ago :https://www.anandtech.com/show/12544/asrock-teases-phantom-gaming-graphics-cards

I've collected this from a Facebook group where Asrock retail representative and fans meet up and discussed matters. One of the rep teased the following pictures, semi confirming the existence of Asrock's desktop graphic cards. We all have been bamboozled with the denial and misdirection of MXM cards for the small form factor market.

  

The cards are quoted to be released in Q2 2018, no word on pricing. 

EDIT! The cards are live! Best images of them can be found here:

https://www.asrock.com/Graphics-Card/AMD/Phantom Gaming X Radeon RX580 8G OC/index.asp

https://www.asrock.com/Graphics-Card/AMD/Phantom Gaming X Radeon RX570 8G OC/index.asp

https://www.asrock.com/Graphics-Card/AMD/Phantom Gaming Radeon RX560 2G/index.asp

https://www.asrock.com/Graphics-Card/AMD/Phantom Gaming Radeon RX550 2G/index.asp

They dont have à premium look..

[kokakolia]

On 2018-03-28 at 2:44 PM, Sauron said:

Of course they are, it turns out that people with lots of time to spare and an interest in graphical fidelity are often kids. Older gamers typically don't care about the card's looks either way, so they market to the demographic that might care. In the end it's most likely going to be face down in a windowless case, so it doesn't really matter (rx series customers usually don't have the budget to chase looks, though there are exceptions).

Errrr....Good luck finding a windowless case though! Unless you buy an ultra cheap case or the fractal core 1000/1100, you’ll always get a window. It’s kind of annoying because most of these windows are made out of super scratch prone acrylic. I’d rather have a solid side panel to be honest. I would actually kill to get an NZXT S340 without a side window. It would look so clean. 

[aisle9]

On 3/28/2018 at 7:54 AM, NelizMastr said:

OH NOES a gaming brand. Getting shrekt by Nvidia in 3.....2.....1......  

I would just like to point out that AsRock and ASUS are technically owned by the same corporate overlord, IIRC. With ASUS' ROG line now paying protection to the GeForce mafia, AsRock's Phantom Gaming line is quite possibly a response to GPP to ensure that the corporate overlord still has a presence in the AMD gaming market. That's amplified by the other brands that have pulled their gaming lineup from AMD.

[Rune]

I don't look forward to the inevitable first few months of "my card was dead out of the box" whether they actually were or not.

[ARikozuM]

Looks like they're super friendly to painting. Good on ASRock for jumping into the game, hopefully they're more midfielders than forwards. 

[NelizMastr]

5 hours ago, aisle9 said:

I would just like to point out that AsRock and ASUS are technically owned by the same corporate overlord, IIRC. With ASUS' ROG line now paying protection to the GeForce mafia, AsRock's Phantom Gaming line is quite possibly a response to GPP to ensure that the corporate overlord still has a presence in the AMD gaming market. That's amplified by the other brands that have pulled their gaming lineup from AMD.

Asus used to own ASRock, yes. But that hasn't been the case for a good number of years now.

[mr moose]

6 hours ago, kokakolia said:

Errrr....Good luck finding a windowless case though! Unless you buy an ultra cheap case or the fractal core 1000/1100, you’ll always get a window. It’s kind of annoying because most of these windows are made out of super scratch prone acrylic. I’d rather have a solid side panel to be honest. I would actually kill to get an NZXT S340 without a side window. It would look so clean. 

Most of the fractal stuff has a windowless versions.  The defines certainly do.

6 hours ago, aisle9 said:

I would just like to point out that AsRock and ASUS are technically owned by the same corporate overlord, IIRC. With ASUS' ROG line now paying protection to the GeForce mafia, AsRock's Phantom Gaming line is quite possibly a response to GPP to ensure that the corporate overlord still has a presence in the AMD gaming market. That's amplified by the other brands that have pulled their gaming lineup from AMD.

My god, why does everything have to be "because of GPP"?  

 

30 minutes ago, NelizMastr said:

Asus used to own ASRock, yes. But that hasn't been the case for a good number of years now.

16 years IIRC. 

[genexis_x]

Erm...how about this: http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/asrock-phantom-graphics-cards-seem-to-be-colorful-products.html

 

Same design so yeah, Colorful branded AMD cards?

[TVwazhere]

5 hours ago, mr moose said:

Most of the fractal stuff has a windowless versions.  The defines certainly do.

Even the Meshify C now is offered in a solid variation!  

[Sauron]

13 hours ago, kokakolia said:

Errrr....Good luck finding a windowless case though! Unless you buy an ultra cheap case or the fractal core 1000/1100, you’ll always get a window. It’s kind of annoying because most of these windows are made out of super scratch prone acrylic. I’d rather have a solid side panel to be honest. I would actually kill to get an NZXT S340 without a side window. It would look so clean. 

Things have changed since the last time I went looking for a case either way many kids are upgrading hand-me-down systems or prebuilts, which are often windowless. Even with a window, a face down card isn't really that impressive to look at unless it has some insane rgb backplate.

[ARikozuM]

1 hour ago, Sauron said:

Things have changed since the last time I went looking for a case either way many kids are upgrading hand-me-down systems or prebuilts, which are often windowless. Even with a window, a face down card isn't really that impressive to look at unless it has some insane rgb backplate.

I would like to see other vendors implement an RGB top-plate like EVGA has. The data is gives is easy to learn after a while and can be customized to use the same range of colors for all sets of data rather than setting the logo to be the only thing that changes. 

[halomaster8000]

On 28/03/2018 at 10:25 PM, Đỗ Đức Huy said:

Continuing with the tease from Asrock a few days ago :https://www.anandtech.com/show/12544/asrock-teases-phantom-gaming-graphics-cards

I've collected this from a Facebook group where Asrock retail representative and fans meet up and discussed matters. One of the rep teased the following pictures, semi confirming the existence of Asrock's desktop graphic cards. We all have been bamboozled with the denial and misdirection of MXM cards for the small form factor market.

  

The cards are quoted to be released in Q2 2018, no word on pricing. 

EDIT! The cards are live! Best images of them can be found here:

https://www.asrock.com/Graphics-Card/AMD/Phantom Gaming X Radeon RX580 8G OC/index.asp

https://www.asrock.com/Graphics-Card/AMD/Phantom Gaming X Radeon RX570 8G OC/index.asp

https://www.asrock.com/Graphics-Card/AMD/Phantom Gaming Radeon RX560 2G/index.asp

https://www.asrock.com/Graphics-Card/AMD/Phantom Gaming Radeon RX550 2G/index.asp

If only ASRock AMD motherboards are as sexy as their and GPU