Did AMD Tease its Upcoming Reference Board Design Ditching the Lateral Blower?

Casecutter · Mar 6, 2020

I see it also as RTG splits Gaming and Professional line's, and now they've some budget to diverge this is expected.

eidairaman1 · Mar 7, 2020

FordGT90Concept said:
More dents? But why?

Might aid in air flow directing

basco said:
but but amd always has the better pcb components so how hard is it to put a good cooler on a reference card you tech giants which costs less- we are not in a beauty saloon

ok i am a little bit drunk so take as ya like

It fits everything just about and goes to OEM builds so it is within design constraints.

Get sobered up

SamuelL · Mar 7, 2020

lZKoce said:
Ahhh, I am gonna miss that. I have a soft spot for squirrel cage coolers. In the right conditions (a.k.a SS FT02B) they are just awesome

Fellow FT02 owner here, I’ve have good experiences with blower cards as well, the work extremely well in the “chimney” layout.

The thing that really sucks is that the Nvidia and AMD blower cards were really well suited to servers and workstations where you have less airflow around multiple cards (not to mention can’t “sandwich” 2 or 3 axial cooler cards) and exhausting hot air is ideal for the system. There are 3rd party options for blowers on the RTX cards but not even close to the quality of the Nvidia FE coolers on the 10 series. It looks like the only server/workstation friendly options for the next generation may be the outrageously expensive Quadros or Firepro cards

primetime · Mar 7, 2020

I wish they just use the radeon 7 cooler (properly mounted of course)

Totally · Mar 7, 2020

FordGT90Concept said:
More dents? But why?

Nvidia cards have dents also, why not call them out?

eidairaman1 · Mar 7, 2020

primetime said:
I wish they just use the radeon 7 cooler (properly mounted of course)

Radeon 7 is a Vega Style card.

Th3pwn3r · Mar 7, 2020

Basard said:
It's about time. Though never quite as fancy as Nvidia's coolers--gonna need more glue, chrome, and screws.

The 'vent' is described as running along the entire top of the card. the PCI-E power connector hole is described in the second-to-last sentance.

Gonna need twice the performance too if you want to point sticks.

DeathtoGnomes · Mar 7, 2020

HTC said:
OTOH, if this ends up "forcing" AIBs to make even better coolers, i'm OK with that, even if they end up costing $20-30 more.

Now that crossfire / SLI are gone, is finally time to introduce cards with standard thickness fans: fans that are NOT brand specific and can be swapped if need be by "insert preferred brand" fans. Be them 92mm or 120mm.

EDIT

It's 92mm: not 90mm.

and right side up mounting.

Shou Miko · Mar 8, 2020

This looks good actually, and I hope it's RX 5900 XT or stronger and it can handle 1440p better then GTX 1080 Ti so I can finally go over to the RED side :laugh:

Vayra86 · Mar 8, 2020

Finally.

2020.

Turmania · Mar 9, 2020

No way! AMD would not copycat Nvdia. This is all lies!

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Did AMD Tease its Upcoming Reference Board Design Ditching the Lateral Blower?

Casecutter

eidairaman1

The Exiled Airman

SamuelL

primetime

Totally

eidairaman1

The Exiled Airman

Th3pwn3r

DeathtoGnomes

Shou Miko

Vayra86

Turmania

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