The PC user's Mac 5700XT Pro - Sapphire announces passive Radeon 5700XT

[williamcll]

Designed for use for server racks, the GPRO X070 is a solid passively cooled card for those that want mid-range server rendering or late to the mining craze.

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The card is based on Radeon RX 5700 XT SKU featuring Navi 10 GPU. This model features 40 Compute Units with 2560 Stream Processors. Sapphire’s GPRO model is equipped with 8GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 14 Gbps. In terms of GPU frequency, the GPRO X070 features AMD reference specs of 1607 / 1755 / 1905 MHz (base, game, and boost clock respectively). The fact that this card has a game clock listed in official specifications may sound strange considering that the card is designed for a professional workload, but technically, this is just a custom Radeon RX 5700 XT. Interestingly GPRO X070 has a secondary BIOS with ‘Efficiency Mode’. In this mode, the clock speed is reduced to 1500 / 1700 / 1750 MHz with the memory clock kept at 14 Gbps. It is unclear what exactly is the purpose of this mode, but reduced clock speeds are often seen in graphics cards in mining environments.

Source: https://videocardz.com/newz/sapphire-releases-gpro-x070-a-fanless-radeon-rx-5700-xt

https://www.sapphiretech.com/en/commercial/gpro-x070-gpu-compute-graphics
Thoughts: It's useful for people that want a more affordable openGL/Vulkan rendering server. Though I guess it would still be hard for the typical user to get one on most websites.

[Prodigy_Smit]

I don't see the point of this for normal consumers unless its significantly cheaper than a normal 5700xt. Its more designed for high airflow applications.

[Moonzy]

I wonder if it's fine to call it passively cooled when it's designed with expectations that it'll have airflow over the fins?

[Drama Lama]

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5700XT Pro

seems a little late

[williamcll]

53 minutes ago, Drama Lama said:

seems a little late

It's not like you are going to find a 6700XT on the shelves anytime soon.

[leadeater]

Cooler goes above the height of the PCIe bracket, yea that's not actually going to be useful for many servers at all.

[Master Disaster]

18 minutes ago, leadeater said:

Cooler goes above the height of the PCIe bracket, yea that's not actually going to be useful for many servers at all.

 

My fan cooled 5700XT can reach the mid 90s after a few hours of stressful gaming (and I have a high AF case with 6 fans), this thing is going to cook if anyone tries to actually use it.

[PlayStation 2]

I genuinely can't see a practical use for this. It's not good for airflow-restricted applications because the fucker runs hot and it's pointless for airflow-friendly applications unless silence is a requirement.

[kelvinhall05]

I find it amusing that in the picture they have a bunch of servers in the background, which is basically the one application I can think of that a cooler design like this would make sense; servers tend to have passively cooled parts with a few large fans providing airflow through the entire chassis instead of having intake and exhaust fans paired with the fans on the components.