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Captain_Yuri said:

JEMC said:

It's interesting that AMD has walked the extra mile to give the cooler a bit of a style instead of a "plain box" like they use to, specially given that, unlike Nvidia, AMD barely cares about its coolers and usually leaves the work to its partners. I'm not sure yet if I like it or not, but I like how the fan blades connect to make that triangle. And they seem to be a tiny bit bigger as well.

Also, unless AMD has been working on two PCBs and coolers for its 7900 cards (which would be kind of dumb, but it's AMD), there doesn't seem to be room for a third 8-pin power connector, meaning that it should use roughly the same power as the 6900/6900XT cards, around 320-350W, 375W tops.

Well, we'll know more on Thursday, and from then it will be a matter of waiting a bit more until reviews to see how this compares to the 4080. And the battle at the top as well, of course.

Yea I personally like Nvidia FE coolers better design wise but yea as you said, it's still a lot better than the reference coolers of yester-years.

I personally hope they do otherwise the 7900XTX will be very power limited imo. AMD needs to make a good first impression with their reference design because that's how most people see their cards. If they show the 7900XTX being slower than 4090 and it's cause of the power limitation where as AIBs will unlock the full potential, then it may not be a good showing. Of course, there is also a lot of pricing involved since we seen with RDNA 2, the reference design had the MSRP but the AIB versions had even more of a premium cost even compared to Nvidia counterparts.

But yea, Thursday can't come soon enough.

Just because Nvidia has decided to increase the power concumption of their cards, that doesn't mean AMD followed the same route. It wouldn't be a complete surprise that AMD saw the 320 or so Watts the 6900XT used and decided that it was already too much... I know, I know, it's highly unlikely given the rumors we've had so far.

But if the 7900XTX will use more than 375W, then it's weird that AMD went with two different designs.

Also, AIB cards always cost more than reference ones, both for AMD and for Nvidia, and if Nvidia's cooler happens to be better and more expensive than AMD's reference one, then the custom cards will reflect that extra cost.