Gigabyte's and Sapphire's Radeon RX 7900-series Cards Pictured

[TheLostSwede]

Courtesy of VideoCardz, we now know what Gigabyte's and Sapphire's upcoming Radeon RX 7900-series cards will look like. Gigabyte will offer at least two different custom designed models, with the Aorus Elite being the higher-end one and the Gaming OC being the mainstream one. Both appear to come in RX 7900 XTX and RX 7900 XT SKUs. The Aorus Elite is said to be a 3.5-slot card sporting three 8-pin power connectors, whereas the Gaming OC is a 2.5-slot card with two 8-pin power connectors.

The Sapphire card in question is the Nitro+ which has been given a design overhaul compared to the Radeon RX 6000-series cards and it's quite a bright card thanks to its silver coloured shroud. We're once again looking at a massive cooler here, which is wider than three slots, but maybe not quite 3.5-slots wide. Unsurprisingly, Sapphire has kitted out the card with three 8-pin power connectors. None of the three cards have a USB-C port and it appears that those looking to get an AMD Radeon RX 7900-series card with a USB-C port, would have to go for the reference design cards.



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[Denver]

Why spoil AMD's marketing of the "relatively compact design that fits in any case" with this brick? lol

 

[zo0lykas]

hmm 7900xtx elite 3.5 slots so what they will do with 7950xt or 7990xt models? just include a bucket with ice?

 

[LFaWolf]

That card in the bottom picture really looks like a brick.

 

[TheLostSwede]

That card in the bottom picture really looks like a brick.

The Aorus Elite is supposedly slightly fatter. None of the XTX's are exactly petit.

 

[ZoneDymo]

eh, boring, boring, and way too big

 

[Kapone33]

Why do AIBs think that we need these super huge GPUs. At this point I will be weighing the difference between the cost of a reference card with a waterblock vs the As Rock Aqua. I am really disappointed in Sapphire.

 

[claes]

Why did sapphire put the RGB on the slot side?

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

Hey, at least one finally showed up as a 2 8-pin model. All these 3 plug behemoths, what are they offering in terms of performance gains over the reference design? Either they get a ton of liberty with power and clocks, or it’s just a “size matters” marketing push.

Why did sapphire put the RGB on the slot side?

Maybe to bounce light off the motherboard? Might not be a bad idea since the card is so damn massive that it could be the RGB equivalent of a solar eclipse?

 

[Dave65]

I will go for the reference design myself, these are way to big but the Sapphire does look sharp imo.

 

[Gmr_Chick]

I'd kill to see that Sapphire card in person. You can bet that since it's a Sapphire card, it'll be as cool as a cucumber, too.

 

[xtreemchaos]

id like to see Sapphire do one with a water block, it would look less bricky.

 

[Dammeron]

Why did sapphire put the RGB on the slot side?

Thought the same as soon as I saw it.

Maybe to bounce light off the motherboard? Might not be a bad idea since the card is so damn massive that it could be the RGB equivalent of a solar eclipse?

Should've seen the RGB on Zotac Trinity - set on 10% brightness and still overpowering everything else...

 

[ARF]

Why did sapphire put the RGB on the slot side?

Psychopathic illness which needs treatment in the hospital.

This generation is uber fail so far.
1. RTX 4090 - enormous and super expensive, melting, fire hazard
2. RTX 4080 - enormous and super expensive
3. RTX 4080 2 - rebadged and super expensive, not released yet, relatively slow
4. RX 7900 XTX - enormous and super expensive, stupid design decisions
5. RX 7900 XT - same as above
6. Lower tier cards nowhere in sight.

 

[AdmiralThrawn]

Psychopathic illness which needs treatment in the hospital.

This generation is uber fail so far.
1. RTX 4090 - enormous and super expensive, melting, fire hazard
2. RTX 4080 - enormous and super expensive
3. RTX 4080 2 - rebadged and super expensive, not released yet, relatively slow
4. RX 7900 XTX - enormous and super expensive, stupid design decisions
5. RX 7900 XT - same as above
6. Lower tier cards nowhere in sight.

The RTX 4060 is slotted for early July of 2023. Why? because F you that's why.

On top of that NVIDIA just retired their 2 best selling cards of all time the 2060 and 1660. But because they hate you they are not replacing them with new cards.

From the perspective of a computer hardware salesman this is incredibly frustrating.

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

Psychopathic illness which needs treatment in the hospital.

This generation is uber fail so far.
1. RTX 4090 - enormous and super expensive, melting, fire hazard
2. RTX 4080 - enormous and super expensive
3. RTX 4080 2 - rebadged and super expensive, not released yet, relatively slow
4. RX 7900 XTX - enormous and super expensive, stupid design decisions
5. RX 7900 XT - same as above
6. Lower tier cards nowhere in sight.

Reference designs for the 7900 are in the realm of normal size. Price is another consideration, and both are way more than I’ll pay anyway. Most I ever paid for a GPU was $300.

 

[Dammeron]

1. RTX 4090 - enormous and super expensive, melting, fire hazard

Remove that one, since those were mostly proven user errors and the whole problem was minor in numbers. Let's not spread misinformation.

RTX 4080 would also suffer from same infamy, if not for the fact that nobody wants to buy those...

 

[Denver]

Psychopathic illness which needs treatment in the hospital.

This generation is uber fail so far.
1. RTX 4090 - enormous and super expensive, melting, fire hazard
2. RTX 4080 - enormous and super expensive
3. RTX 4080 2 - rebadged and super expensive, not released yet, relatively slow
4. RX 7900 XTX - enormous and super expensive, stupid design decisions
5. RX 7900 XT - same as above
6. Lower tier cards nowhere in sight.

What are you talking about? AMD's cards are perfectly priced, of course on the consumer side, most will want something even cheaper or even free.

But the reality is that hardware in general will be more expensive, among other things because the curve between increasing density of newer manufacturing process and production and development costs are out of sync. Putting it on paper and being optimistic the production cost of the XTX should be somewhere between $600-700, the memory alone should cost more than $300. I will not go into the question of long term support via software (drivers) and development.
So...realistically it is an excellent price

 

[eidairaman1]

Why spoil AMD's marketing of the "relatively compact design that fits in any case" with this brick? lol

7900XT aint.

 

[1d10t]

Another moronic design, 3.5 slot and RGB strips in underside of the cards. I mean like, how you gonna see it? If it two sides then yeah you definitely see partially.

 

[john_]

The RTX 4060 is slotted for early July of 2023. Why? because F you that's why.

And when it arrives, it will be offering about the same performance/$ as the 3060. High performance difference will exist only artificially when using DLSS 3.0 for example.

 

[Chrispy_]

The RTX 4060 is slotted for early July of 2023. Why? because F you that's why.

On top of that NVIDIA just retired their 2 best selling cards of all time the 2060 and 1660. But because they hate you they are not replacing them with new cards.

From the perspective of a computer hardware salesman this is incredibly frustrating.

Yep. It's times like these that I'm pleased I have access to CEX who will effectively slap 20% on the market value of used GPUs and give you a 2 year warranty.

I don't like it, but we're going to go through an artificial drought of mainstream GPUs again unless AMD and Intel can fill in the gap, soon.

 

[jesdals]

Being a 3 monitor user I simply cant understand why they do 2+2, but damn these cards are bulky.

The Elite has some nice gains
Boost Clock* : up to 2680 MHz (Reference card: 2500 MHz)
Game Clock* : up to 2510 MHz (Reference card: 2300 MHz)

 

[Veseleil]

Why did sapphire put the RGB on the slot side?

Vertical mount expected probably.

TBH I didn't expect Sapphire to choose RGB over better cooling. That strip is clearly in the way of an exhaust. My bet it's on the other side as well. And it's kinda totally opposite direction compared to the reference design. Even though I find it ugly AF, reference might end up being better in every regard.

 

[eidairaman1]

Another moronic design, 3.5 slot and RGB strips in underside of the cards. I mean like, how you gonna see it? If it two sides then yeah you definitely see partially.

Vertical mount