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they're just waiting for nvidia to show their pricing so they can do theirs later and drop it accordingly
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Asus has decided to announce its AMD card
This is the Asus TUF RX9070XT. A triple slot cooler with 3x 8 pins for power. Asus says they've stopped using thermal paste and are now using phase change thermal pads for the coolers. They confirm the 9070XT has 16GB vram and DP2.1 ports. It also comes with an antisag bracket
And here is the Asus Prime RX9070 (non XT model)
This time it's a 2.5 slot cooler, and also 3x 8 pins for power and 16GB VRAM
This is the Asus TUF RX9070XT. A triple slot cooler with 3x 8 pins for power. Asus says they've stopped using thermal paste and are now using phase change thermal pads for the coolers. They confirm the 9070XT has 16GB vram and DP2.1 ports. It also comes with an antisag bracket
And here is the Asus Prime RX9070 (non XT model)
This time it's a 2.5 slot cooler, and also 3x 8 pins for power and 16GB VRAM
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Soldato
Ooph, that does not bode well for being cool and quiet...
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I really had no expectations.
3 8 pins makes me think it surely can’t be that bad. The ASUS TUF 7900GRE had two while the 7900XT and XTX had 3. There’s no way AMD haven’t improved efficiency by 10% going from one gen to another right?Asus has decided to announce its AMD card
This is the Asus TUF RX9070XT. A triple slot cooler with 3x 8 pins for power. Asus says they've stopped using thermal paste and are now using phase change thermal pads for the coolers. They confirm the 9070XT has 16GB vram and DP2.1 ports. It also comes with an antisag bracket
And here is the Asus Prime RX9070 (non XT model)
This time it's a 2.5 slot cooler, and also 3x 8 pins for power and 16GB VRAM
Edit: Also, finally phase change thermal pads.
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It was just weird and a mess. From the audio issues to the sort of strange moment a member of staff walked on stage to hand over a H series chip and then 15 seconds comes back to take it away???
Was a bit like the school Xmas play..
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we already knew we weren't getting any.
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Apparently the card will feature a triple-fan WindForce cooling system with Hawk Fans, and a dual bios with “server-grade thermal conductive gel.”Here is the Gigabyte model of the 9070XT Aorus. Also triple slot and triple 8 pins power
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my 5600 XT has an 8pin and a 6 pin. It doesn't need those to power the card even when you hack and over clock it.
my GRE has two 8 pins and isn't power limited with those two.
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Incredible that the AIB’s are announcing their models even though we have barely any information from AMD. The AIB’s are probably and quite rightly furious about the whole thing.
This has to be one of the worst GPU ‘announcements’ I’ve ever seen and I am a bit of an old AMD fan boy. If you are going to announce it, just do it properly.
This has to be one of the worst GPU ‘announcements’ I’ve ever seen and I am a bit of an old AMD fan boy. If you are going to announce it, just do it properly.
Soldato
If Nvidia drops 5070 news tonight, expect 9070 update this week.
Soldato
Yep they've obviously thought we need to do something.
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Triple slot and 3x8 pin power for a supposedly mid-range card?!?
So size/cooling-wise it improves nothing from a 7900XT and power-wise it could pulls more power than last-gen high end (even Red Devil RX7900XT is just 2x 8pin)?
Might as well get a 7900xt instead at this rate, at you'd get more VRAM for it to age less poorly...
I wouldn’t take it as that - it almost certainly won’t need triple 8 pins. Maybe it’s more an aesthetic choice. These cards don’t need coolers this big either but the manufacturers have realised in many markets people like to have a big card in their case even if it’s a lower end/mid range model. Also means they get to charge more and argue there is a bigger cooler etc…
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That makes no sense. It's like they don't know what they are doing if true.
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That’s what I think as well. Which just goes to show that this whole announcement has been a total misstep. Even I didn’t think AMD could fumble it this bad.
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Having had both a twin fan cards and a triple fan card, I'd take the triple. I found twin fans was more whine and working faster. Triple fan can keep GPU cooler with less rpm.
