News XFX releases hulking quad-slot triple-fan AMD GPU — XFX Radeon RX 7900 XTX Phoenix Nirvana graphics card launches in China at $1,100

[Admin]

AMD graphics card partner XFX has launched a new flagship. We first saw the XFX Radeon RX 7900 XTX Phoenix Nirvana graphics card at the end of April, but now it has been listed on China’s JD.com retail portal at roughly $1,100.

XFX releases hulking quad-slot triple-fan AMD GPU — XFX Radeon RX 7900 XTX Phoenix Nirvana graphics card launches in China at $1,100 : Read more

 

[dtemple]

I have no idea where you got the idea that PTM7950 has a thermal conductivity rating of THOUSANDS of W/mK, its rating is 8.5W/mK. That makes it identical to MX4 and not a real selling point.

 

[Deleted member 2731765]

I have no idea where you got the idea that PTM7950 has a thermal conductivity rating of THOUSANDS of W/mK, its rating is 8.5W/mK. That makes it identical to MX4 and not a real selling point.

Yes, you are correct. It is 8.5W/mk.

The article's wording has been wrong here, "XFX uses a 15,000W/mK Honeywell PTM 7950 phase-changing thermal pad."

After reading/translating the press release that value actually refers to the full thermal conductivity rated at 15,000 W/mk, for this custom GPU. The vapor chamber has a surface area of 62,586mm2, and the whole heatsink has a surface area of 10,603,980mm2.

So it appears that Mark Tyson misinterpreted the info in his article.

 

[Avro Arrow]

As impressive as this is (and it is DAMN impressive), I don't see the point of it. The RX 7900 XTX's existing cooling solutions are more than good enough for that GPU. The only time that the XTX experienced issues with its cooling system was when PCPartner (of Zotac and Inno3D fame) screwed up the vapour chambers in some of the reference models.

Without a defective vapour chamber, even the reference models cooled themselves adequately. The existing AIB models from ASRock, ASUS, Gigabyte, MSi, Powercolor, Sapphire, XFX and Yeston have had no issues whatsoever with their coolers.

So it begs the question, why would anyone want a quad-wide card when they don't need a quad-wide card? The card would just take extra up valuable motherboard real estate and block at least one extra expansion slot. Why would people pay more money for this privilege? It makes no sense.

 

[coromonadalix]

waiting for a 4 fans 5 slot card .... absurd

 

[NeoMorpheus]

As impressive as this is (and it is DAMN impressive), I don't see the point of it. The RX 7900 XTX's existing cooling solutions are more than good enough for that GPU. The only time that the XTX experienced issues with its cooling system was when PCPartner (of Zotac and Inno3D fame) screwed up the vapour chambers in some of the reference models.

Without a defective vapour chamber, even the reference models cooled themselves adequately. The existing AIB models from ASRock, ASUS, Gigabyte, MSi, Powercolor, Sapphire, XFX and Yeston have had no issues whatsoever with their coolers.

So it begs the question, why would anyone want a quad-wide card when they don't need a quad-wide card. The card would just take extra up valuable motherboard real estate and block at least one extra expansion slot. Why would people pay more money for this privilege? It makes no sense.

Agreed.

This thing makes no sense, well, at least to me.

 

[watzupken]

This product is too late, and kind of meaningless. Once you start increasing prices of AMD graphics, it will just make people gravitate towards the pricier Nvidia solution.

 

[Avro Arrow]

waiting for a 4 fans 5 slot card .... absurd

With sequential blowers in the background for that "Top Gun Carrier Launch" sound.