What are your thoughts on AMD's reference RX 6000 design
Published: 14th September 2020 | Source: AMD Radeon | Author: Mark Campbell
AMD reveals its first Radeon RX 6000 series GPU image
AMD has officially unveiled its first image of their Radeon RX 6000 series of graphics cards, giving us a glance at what could become the company's upcoming Radeon flagship.
Based on this design, it is clear that AMD is taking the design of its upcoming Radeon flagship seriously. Based on this image, we can see this graphics card is cooled using a triple fan heatsink and will be powered by dual 8-pin PCIe power connectors. In many ways, this graphics card is similar in appearance to Nvidia's RTX 2000 series designs, albeit with a triple-fan cooler design and a heatsink should which matches Radeon's branding better.
Unlike AMD's older reference designs, these new graphics cards appear to be combined with cooling solutions which will be more than up for the task of cooling AMD's new Radeon flagship. This reveal should come as great news for consumers, as Radeon fans should not need to wait for 3rd party designs before they can purchase graphics cards which offer cool and quiet heatsink options.
By using dual 8-pin PCIe power connectors, AMD has committed itself consuming 300 watts of power from your power supply and up to 75W from your PCIe slot. At this time it is unknown how much power AMD's RX 6000 series flagship will consumer under load.
At this time, it is unknown how AMD's Radeon RX 6000 series will perform. Radeon fans should expect a significant performance leap over Navi, thanks to the efficiency boosts of Radeon's RDNA 2 architecture and the addition of new features like VRS, Mesh Shaders and DXR 1.1 support.
PC gamers will be able to get a closer look at this cooler design in FOrtnite using the Creative Island code 8651-9841-1639.
Based on this design, it is clear that AMD is taking the design of its upcoming Radeon flagship seriously. Based on this image, we can see this graphics card is cooled using a triple fan heatsink and will be powered by dual 8-pin PCIe power connectors. In many ways, this graphics card is similar in appearance to Nvidia's RTX 2000 series designs, albeit with a triple-fan cooler design and a heatsink should which matches Radeon's branding better.
Unlike AMD's older reference designs, these new graphics cards appear to be combined with cooling solutions which will be more than up for the task of cooling AMD's new Radeon flagship. This reveal should come as great news for consumers, as Radeon fans should not need to wait for 3rd party designs before they can purchase graphics cards which offer cool and quiet heatsink options.
By using dual 8-pin PCIe power connectors, AMD has committed itself consuming 300 watts of power from your power supply and up to 75W from your PCIe slot. At this time it is unknown how much power AMD's RX 6000 series flagship will consumer under load.
At this time, it is unknown how AMD's Radeon RX 6000 series will perform. Radeon fans should expect a significant performance leap over Navi, thanks to the efficiency boosts of Radeon's RDNA 2 architecture and the addition of new features like VRS, Mesh Shaders and DXR 1.1 support.
PC gamers will be able to get a closer look at this cooler design in FOrtnite using the Creative Island code 8651-9841-1639.
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