Now i'm getting mad at AMD.. Yes this looks like the 295X colors. but the momoent i saw it.. it felt GTX780/titan ... hmmm AMD .. this better be a good GPU.
But yeah. It kind of slightly resembles the NVidia high-end reference coolers, how peculiar.
Regardless, I think I like the looks. Perhaps we will even have somewhat decent cooling besides aftermarket?
The sooner Nvidia drops their cards the sooner AMD can respond. The question is will the go small die and gimp double precision compute since it is the way to go or will they go big on both again like with the HD79xx. The cooler looks Okish the R9 290x reference cooler looked pretty good it was just noisy but it looked quite good. irl I mean.
This shroud is about the new asetek aio cooler. So they will use it for the next single flagship gpu.It looks like the 295x2 shroud but they moved the fan back for vrm cooling. Dual gpus in general have the vrm area in the center
This shroud is about the new asetek aio cooler. So they will use it for the next single flagship gpu.It looks like the 295x2 shroud but they moved the fan back for vrm cooling. Dual gpus in general have the vrm area in the center
God knows how many have been whining about the cooling design of AMD's mid-to-high-end GPU's since HD 5xxx and now they bring out something new.
"Nope, not good enough!" Give it a break.
1) considering the timing this is most likely a controlled leak
2) might be just the angle but I'm not sure if there's enough room for the pci-e power connectors
3) metal + AIO = expensive
4) water cooling = almost certainly big die + 28nm
The real question people should be asking is what's the launch window? We have GM204 coming next week, tonga PRO released, GM200 taped out and the ~500mm^2 AMD die taped out. So if I had to guess I'd say early 2015.
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I'm all for quality blower style cooling of high end GPU's. Unfortunately AMD has a track record for throwing power consumption out the window making a blower design solution nearly impossible. Heck, many of the fancy cooled 290's and 290x's have a hard time staying cooled without sounding like a vacuum cleaner.
Hmm... AIO water cooler for a single GPU card ? What kind of TDP will this thing have ? Nvidia's GK110 is 561mm2 big and works on air cooling.
Could this be just a reference design, or will all cards have to ship with a watercooler ?
An air cooled card will probably cost less.
As to the cooler shroud, well, it's got a simple industrial design. It's not very elaborate. It's certainly not as elaborate as Nvidia's. But then again, Nvidia's, while great looking, is not 100% fitting with a gaming theme in my opinion (it looks a bit too professional to me). This one, while less sophisticated, gets the job done and may actually fit better in a gaming themed rig.
But yeah, this seems like a controlled leak like Alatar said.
Why does it look like the core is all the way to the right end of the card? Isn't that usually where VRMs and power delivery components are?
It will make mounting the AIO easier though.
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