AMD is changing the type of cooler it uses on next-gen graphics cards

[Syaoran]

 

Look closely, very closely

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If you're not a fan of blower-style GPU coolers, AMD has good news—it's getting rid of them for its next-generation Radeon graphics cards based on its RDNA 2 architecture. In its place, AMD will switch to an axial-fan cooling solution, just as Nvidia did when it launched its GeForce RTX series, and later its GeForce GTX cards based on Turing.

 

When it comes to GPU coolers, blowers have the advantage of expelling hot air directly outside the case, since the exhaust vent is positioned in the expansion slot. Generally speaking, however, they do not cool as well as axial-fan solutions, and are often louder—sometimes a lot louder.

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AMD teased a photo of updated cooler design in one of the slides it showed at its Financial Analyst Day presentation on Wednesday.

 

 

There were a lot of slides during the 3.5-hour presentation, and it would have been easy to miss the thumbnail shot of the GPU cooler, especially since AMD didn't say anything about it. However, the image was posted to Reddit, where AMD's vice president and general manager of the Radeon Business Unit, Scott Herkelman, confirmed the change.

"There will be no blower reference fans for gamers on next-gen. So you are correct," Herkelman wrote, with a winky-face for good measure.

 

This isn't entirely new territory for AMD. The Radeon VII (Vega) is outfitted with a triple axial fan cooler, though other than that, you would have to go back several generations to find another one. The Radeon RX 5000 series (Navi) and 500/400 series (Polaris) exclusively used blower-style coolers for reference models.

Source: https://www.pcgamer.com/amd-is-changing-the-type-of-cooler-it-uses-on-next-gen-graphics-cards/

 

I almost never notice how loud my fans are because I wear headphones and I also don't get bothered by them if I do notice.

But it's still pretty cool for those that want a quiet system.

[dizmo]

Hopefully that's not just a random render, and actually what they'll be putting out. With the Ryzen cooler, maybe they'll take some lessons and actually put a slightly-better-than-adequate cooler on there. Though, really, reference cards aren't that great to begin with, so who cares what they use.

[Syaoran]

8 minutes ago, dizmo said:

Hopefully that's not just a random render, and actually what they'll be putting out. With the Ryzen cooler, maybe they'll take some lessons and actually put a slightly-better-than-adequate cooler on there. Though, really, reference cards aren't that great to begin with, so who cares what they use.

 

40 minutes ago, Syaoran said:

the image was posted to Reddit, where AMD's vice president and general manager of the Radeon Business Unit, Scott Herkelman, confirmed the change.

 

 

[Dietrichw]

The design language of it makes me think of the old reference designs up to the 290X. I’m not a fan of red but it just feels right for them to go back to that design language.

[RejZoR]

6 hours ago, WikiForce said:

looks alot like rtx cooler from i can see on the top side

My first thought as well. Like RTX reference cooler, but in darker accent with red stripes on the edges.

5 hours ago, Dietrichw said:

The design language of it makes me think of the old reference designs up to the 290X. I’m not a fan of red but it just feels right for them to go back to that design language.

If it's all black and just red lines around some edges, it's fine. Being all red will ruin things a bit. Then again, how many people who are extra finicky about colors buy reference designs? They'll go with some aftermarket cooler design in color of their choice.

[RejZoR]

40 minutes ago, huilun02 said:

Good, although the majority of cards people buy are already AIB designs. At least this prevents idiot reviewers from giving the GPU worse reviews due to comparing reference blower cards with other GPUs using custom coolers.

Reviewers who do something this fundamentally stupid don't deserve to exist anyway. Exception is when card has nearly or the same price and offers way better aftermarket cooler, then comparison is valid. If better cooler means 50€ more, then no.

[Xkillerpn]

All they need to do is put something similar to this on the reference cards. Reference 7990.

 

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/radeon-hd-7990.c2126

[Oalei]

2 hours ago, Xkillerpn said:

All they need to do is put something similar to this on the reference cards. Reference 7990.

 

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/radeon-hd-7990.c2126

thats some nice reference card, imo.

[Zando_]

Hopefully it isn't like the RVII cooler. Which was axial fans, vapor chamber and everything, but they forgot that you still need a finstack to dump that heat:

Instead they literally chopped out the vast majority of the finstack. It looks really nice but they didn't even save much thickness-wise over even bulky cards like the Gaming X 1080 Ti:

 

Which did not chop out its finstack just to be slightly slimmer. Though I do understand that AMD was likely trying to make sure people could stack 4 of these if they needed to (but blower cards would have been much better for that application anyways). 

[Doobeedoo]

That's good and makes sense really. No need for turbine single small blower fan anymore. Even many very small cases have proper openings for multi-fan cards.

[CephDigital]

I believe there was a reddit post from someone at AMD saying that this is 100% true and that there won't be anymore blower style cards as reference designs.

EDIT: Here's link to the reddit post: 

 

[GoldenLag]

AMD has learned to not point their revolver at their own foot when pulling the trigger.

[Sauron]

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