Sunday, January 14th 2018
Sapphire Shows the Elusive RX Vega Nitro+ Graphics Card at CES 2018
Sapphire took to CES 2018 to showcase one of the most elusive products in recent times: a custom variant of AMD's RX Vega graphics cards. Sapphire went to great lengths to keep the entire affair under as many wraps as possible, even going so far as to book an entire room to showcase their RX Vega Nitro+, laying still, like a mirage, on top of its anti-static plastic wrap.
There's something eerily beautiful about this graphics card: not on its exquisite back and faceplate designs alone, nor on the custom Sapphire-cut exhaust port; it's really for the condition of a somewhat "unicorn" type of product. Some people believe they're out there, but sightings in their natural environment (read, correct MSRP) are so rare that they are brought up as mass deliriums. The most interesting tech product on CES 2018 based on this story alone, surely.
There's something eerily beautiful about this graphics card: not on its exquisite back and faceplate designs alone, nor on the custom Sapphire-cut exhaust port; it's really for the condition of a somewhat "unicorn" type of product. Some people believe they're out there, but sightings in their natural environment (read, correct MSRP) are so rare that they are brought up as mass deliriums. The most interesting tech product on CES 2018 based on this story alone, surely.
25 Comments on Sapphire Shows the Elusive RX Vega Nitro+ Graphics Card at CES 2018
I've recently puchased some RX570 nitro+, and they're bigger than my reference R9 290.
WTF really, you also cannot install them without a free pcie between them, making them in fact 3 slots wide
You would think they would make a better job with such a tiny gpu+mem on vega. But no, the same overloaded bullshit power phase system
And yet , it ran relatively quite for the furnace it was.
Point is there are solutions without doubt for both cooling and silence even on air , whether or not these manufacturers are willing to implement them is another story. Sure we now got used to paying 500$+ for a GPU where they don't even bother redesigning the cooler so that all the heatpipes touch the die and also where the VRMs occasionally have 0 cooling. Don't be fooled by their shit products thinking that's the best they can do.
That's their design, there are 1070-180tis that are like this too, just put a waterblock on it or find a different maker. The card is well built.
Oh and they don't have to deal with DX9 games being broken, because miners don't care.
Is that desperation I smell?
I am just a fanboy though... you are right... have you even looked at benches on TPU and Guru3D of the 1080 ti vs vega 64? Civ VI is the only exception to the rule, one game out of 100.