Tuesday, October 8th 2019
XFX Launches the Radeon RX 5700 XT THICC III Ultra
XFX today finally launched their thick, custom version of the AMD Navi-powered RX 5700 XT. The new RX 5700 XT THICC III Ultra features a triple-slot (well, 2.7 slots, but who's counting but we?) cooling solution with three cooling fans, thus upping the ante compared to previous XFX THICC graphics cards. XFX boasts hat their THICC III Ultra features a peak Boost clock of 2025 MHz, and typical Boosts in the area of 1935 MHz (a 10.3% increase compared to AMD's reference specs).
The THICC design philosophy stands the test of time here, with the card mainly being black colored, with some silver accents. A thick aluminium fin-stack fed by a copper baseplate and copper heat pipes ensure a constant heat transfer from the GPU chip to the fin-stack array, which now sees three fans working overtime to dissipate all that framerate-produced heat - fed by a pair of 8-pin connectors.
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The THICC design philosophy stands the test of time here, with the card mainly being black colored, with some silver accents. A thick aluminium fin-stack fed by a copper baseplate and copper heat pipes ensure a constant heat transfer from the GPU chip to the fin-stack array, which now sees three fans working overtime to dissipate all that framerate-produced heat - fed by a pair of 8-pin connectors.
32 Comments on XFX Launches the Radeon RX 5700 XT THICC III Ultra
"We fixed it by removing all of the MacDonald's plastic. It's terrible."
No pulling their blows there.
The line “which now sees three fans working overtime” - is this seriously in their PR?
What happened to them between polaris and this is disappointing because the rx480/580s were good.
The hardware could be defective and they'd still sell it (and send you a defective one back with the same problem even if it's been several months and everyone knows about the defective component).
-XFX PR.
Even if you buy one and strip all of the plastic junk off it, you're still left with a poor cooler design that relies on heatpads to fill gaps instead of soldered junctions, and stainless-steel VRAM and VRM cooling plates which is one of the worst metals possible when it comes to heat transfer.
XFX quite literally ruined a $400+ product to save maybe 10c per card.
My response: I am, would never consider buying a card wider than 2S (≥41mm).