AMD Unveils Radeon RX 6000 Design: Bye-Bye, Blower

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AMD has shared a sneak peek at the design of its Radeon RX 6000 graphics cards, which are powered by the company’s next-generation RDNA 2 architecture. It looks pretty good. The first thing you’ll probably notice is that red team has dumped the (arguably) loud, inefficient blower design for an open-air configuration comprising triple-axial, R-branded fans. We’re guessing that their cooling performance should be much more impressive this time around.



The Radeon RX 6000 Series also features 2x 8-pin PCIe power connectors. Apparently, red team isn’t interested in revising a tried-and-true design like NVIDIA, which introduced a 12-pin connector to its GeForce RTX 30 Series Founders Editions. As for the shroud, expect matte-black plastic and a strip of chrome, with red accents pulling...

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[SeymourGore]

I like it - it's not as sexy as the VII (I like clean lines) but I really have not too many complaints about the look of it. Hoping it performs well and is a lot quieter than the VII.

 

[Burticus]

Not sure if this is good or bad news. 3 fans is better cooling and quieter (possibly) right? OTOH a blower fan blows the hot air out of your PC instead of just circulating hot air around inside the case?

 

[ThreeDee]

So much to decide on ... too much wait!

 

[kcthebrewer]

I installed Fortnite to look into the card and it's barely anything. No heatpipes, etc.

Just fins, shroud, fans, and a backplate.

 

[Brian_B]

No blower. That is definitely the headline there. Thank you OP~

That was always the absolute worst thing about AMD reference cards. I know AMD had always justified it by saying that a blower reference was pretty much guaranteed to work no matter what case/configuration the PC was in, and that's true. But they are also hotter and noiser than nVidia reference, and that's what it always gets compared to -- poor review sites don't even look at TDP, they just look at temp and noise and automatically default to the cooler/quieter card being "better", even if it's backing a 4-times larger cooling solution on double the TDP.

 

[Auer]

2 8 pin power connectors, so 300w + I guess.