Manufacturer PowerColor, which along with Sapphire has been the other major exclusive partner for graphics cards from AMD over the years, has officially presented its custom designs of the Radeon RX 7900 XT and 7900 XT from the Hellhound graphics card series, which are red in color. is located below. Devil, and giving the first major data.
PowerColor makes the new Hellhound series official
After PowerColor published the first product images of the Radeon RX 7900 XTX and 7900 XT from the Hellhound and Red Devil series in late November, the series, which sits just below the in-house spearhead, is now officially presented with the first specifications.
Even if clock frequencies such as base and boost clocks as well as possible higher manufacturer-specific TDP values or power limits remain under wraps until AMD releases the graphics card on December 13, the exclusive The partner is already disclosing the first key data.
- 8×6mm heat pipe
- custom pcb with 14 layers
- voltage modulation with 20 steps
- 91×89×2.6mm Direct Touch Copper Board
- LEDs for RGB lighting and BIOS, OC switch
- New fans in optimized 9-blade design
- 2× 8-pin PCIe 4.0 connector
According to PowerColor, the information initially pertains to a larger custom design based on the Radeon RX 7900 XTX with 48 workgroup processors, 96 compute units, and 6,144 or 12,288 shader units.
The three new fans on the 2.5 to 3 slot higher cooling solution have a new “9 blade design” and are aimed at keeping the graphics card 3°C cooler than the previous generation with RDNA 2 architecture.
Red Devil to be crowned RDNA 3 portfolio
On top of the new Hellhound series, PowerColor will install its Red Devil series graphics cards, which rely on an even more complex PCB with more voltage converters, an even more powerful cooling concept and three 8-cores of up to 525 watts and 516 watts. Pin PCIe connector, respectively.
Sapphire Vapor-X and Nitro+ are also out of the hat
In addition to PowerColor, Sapphire has already announced two of its upcoming custom designs with the RDNA 3 based Navi 31, the Radeon RX 7900 XTX and Radeon RX 7900 XT Vapor-X and Nitro+. However, it is not yet certain whether all manufacturers will come up with the release of the Radeon RX 7000 series at the start of sales on December 13.