AMD Radeon Vega Power Connectors Pictured

[btarunr]

At its first reveal of the Radeon Vega graphics card on the sidelines of the 2017 International CES show, AMD was careful to conceal the power-connectors of its graphics card prototype (using tissue paper), even though teaser images of the card were splattered all over the web. From this week's reveal of a Radeon Vega graphics card running on an AMD Ryzen 7-1800X powered machine, the veil is off the power connector layout. Apparently, AMD's reference design Radeon Vega 10 graphics card is air-cooled, and it draws power from a combination of 8-pin and 6-pin PCIe power connectors.

NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 1080 (reference) makes do with a single 8-pin connector, although most custom-design GTX 1080 cards feature 6-pin + 8-pin layouts. The GP102-powered TITAN X Pascal reference, too, draws power from 6+8 pin connectors. It's interesting to note here, that the power connectors feature a string of LEDs near their contact points on the PCB. The Radeon R9 Fury X, too has something like this, although the LEDs are used to alert users of faulty power input, or power draw. In the image below, we see that LEDs over only one connector are lit up. Could this indicate that AMD is making sure users are aware that the card isn't drawing power from both connectors all the time?



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[FordGT90Concept]

So 275'ish watt like the Fury rather than the 350'ish watt of Fury X. I can live with that.

I'm actually glad their aiming high to get everything out of the 14nm process they reasonably can. RX 480 aiming low (150w) had me concerned for a while.


I think your theory about the LEDs is right. It would only have to draw from both under heavy load situations. We know AMD was playing with power a lot on early versions of the Vega card. Makes sense that they would leave some of those toys in the reference design.

 

[-The_Mask-]

This is a engineering sample with even a USB port for debugging, there could be a lot of things changed in the final product.

 

[alucasa]

That LED on power connector is cute and a neat idea.

 

[GhostRyder]

Funny enough, one of the first things I notice is they changed the Radeon logo lettering, looks better than the old one in my book. I still am curious what nomenclature they are putting Vega under (IE RX 4XX or RX 5XX).

I am excited to see these cards in action, I hope the extra time is worth the wait.

 

[kruk]

Here are a ton more pictures of the card: https://videocardz.com/66267/amd-radeon-vega-graphics-card-and-logo-revealed

Enjoy

 

[FordGT90Concept]

Funny enough, one of the first things I notice is they changed the Radeon logo lettering, looks better than the old one in my book. I still am curious what nomenclature they are putting Vega under (IE RX 4XX or RX 5XX).

I am excited to see these cards in action, I hope the extra time is worth the wait.

I think it is getting 5XX because it's 5th generation GCN. Could be wrong though. I mean, the 3XX series didn't make any sense (should have been 2XX).

 

[RejZoR]

Ryzen was nice, but since I already have fast enough CPU, I'm more interested in Vega. Bring it on AMD

 

[FordGT90Concept]

This is a engineering sample with even a USB port for debugging, there could be a lot of things changed in the final product.

Here are a ton more pictures of the card: https://videocardz.com/66267/amd-radeon-vega-graphics-card-and-logo-revealed

Enjoy

Huh, appears to be the same card they showed before except, as said in the OP, no tissue over the PCIE connectors.

 

[Casecutter]

Yea, I'd say we might want to say could be... or maybe not given that's an engineering board.

Although, I might like the idea of a LED's that indicates your into the 6-pin power, kinda' a Turbo Boost indicator. Heck, no light at idle, blue at low draw, green at heavy draw, red during max. Playing moderate draw games it goes blue-green (back and forth) depending the power level. The industry is all in RGB lighting and AMD did Ryzen cooler so this would be right in line.

 

[cdawall]

The Fury I have in one of my work boxes has that same little light arrangement it is rare to see it actually max out the power on the two 8 pins.

 

[Aldain]

Still a pre-production board with the usb PCB attced to it for monitoring.. Useless to use for final assessments

 

[HM_Actua1]

Ghettooooooo

 

[eidairaman1]

Ghettooooooo

You should of read the thread properly. This is a developers board which the final design will be different, go crap in another thread instead of posting useless comments.

 

[natr0n]

I dont find this pic exciting or anything. It's as if we haven't seen something like this ever

 

[eidairaman1]

I dont find this pic exciting or anything. It's as if we haven't seen something like this ever

I'll spill my guts at home to spruce this up.

 

[Angri]

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[xvi]

Here are a ton more pictures of the card: https://videocardz.com/66267/amd-radeon-vega-graphics-card-and-logo-revealed

Enjoy

Why did they mount the CPU fan so it'd blow exhaust down against normal case airflow? I wonder if they were hoping for a little extra cooling on the back of the card.

 

[m1dg3t]

So 275'ish watt like the Fury rather than the 350'ish watt of Fury X. I can live with that.

Source for that? Don't assume.

 

[Captain_Tom]

So 275'ish watt like the Fury rather than the 350'ish watt of Fury X. I can live with that.

I'm actually glad their aiming high to get everything out of the 14nm process they reasonably can. RX 480 aiming low (150w) had me concerned for a while.


I think your theory about the LEDs is right. It would only have to draw from both under heavy load situations. We know AMD was playing with power a lot on early versions of the Vega card. Makes sense that they would leave some of those toys in the reference design.

Personally I wish they just always put dual 8-Pins on their Halo Cards. I want moar powah!


Then again SAPPHIRE will undoubtedly release a Toxic Version. Hopefully as powerful as their 6970 and 7970 TOXIC's were...

 

[eidairaman1]

Personally I wish they just always put dual 8-Pins on their Halo Cards. I want moar powah!


Then again SAPPHIRE will undoubtedly release a Toxic Version. Hopefully as powerful as their 6970 and 7970 TOXIC's were...

needs to be vapor X

 

[kn00tcn]

wouldnt it be nice to have a retail board that has those extra diagnostic features?

Source for that? Don't assume.

the specifications of 6pin vs 8pin power connectors

although it's not that it means it will use up all that power constantly

 

[RejZoR]

I've seen this card very card months ago in Linus Tech Tips video where Linus talked to Raja (I think it was around RX480 launch). It was the same extended PCB with debugging module.

Personally I wish they just always put dual 8-Pins on their Halo Cards. I want moar powah!


Then again SAPPHIRE will undoubtedly release a Toxic Version. Hopefully as powerful as their 6970 and 7970 TOXIC's were...

I've had a Sapphire HD6870 Toxic and while it was stupendously fast (I think it was reaching HD6950 performance), it was obnoxiously loud and hot. I kinda lost trust in Toxic models after that. Though, that one had single fan and heatsink wasn't nearly as big as it is these days... Something had to be wrong with that one, maybe bad vapor chamber or something...

 

[iO]

It just shows GPU load in 12.5% steps like Furys did and not which connector it draws power from...

 

[m1dg3t]

the specifications of 6pin vs 8pin power connectors

although it's not that it means it will use up all that power constantly

Thanks Cpt. Obvious! It's actually the spec of 6/8 combined and with slot power. The way Ford posted it was making it appear as if he knew what this power consumption was as a fact, hence why I asked for source. That's just norm for Ford though

Understanding what we read isn't the same as reading. Figure that out