Asus has simply unveiled the world’s first dual-fan AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX and RX 7900 XT graphics playing cards, within the form of the Asus Twin Radeon RX 7900 XTX and Asus Twin Radeon RX 7900 XT. As all earlier graphics playing cards primarily based on these AMD GPUs sported three followers, you may count on a dual-fan variant to have a small card design, however that’s not the case with these playing cards.
As AMD’s present greatest graphics card for gaming, the RX 7900 XTX is a monstrously highly effective card that typically wants each little bit of assist it might get to stay cool whereas nonetheless being quiet. Nonetheless, these new Asus variations of AMD‘s best seem to chop down their cooling capability, whereas not clearly providing another benefits.
What’s notably odd right here is that Asus hasn’t taken the chance to create a smaller model of both card, as we’ve seen with basic compact variants of different high-end playing cards, such because the Zotac GeForce GTX 1080 Ti Mini. As an alternative, these playing cards are even greater than another RX 7900 XTX/XT variants, with each measuring 322 x 147 x 58mm.
In truth, these playing cards are so massive that it seems as if Asus might have simply fitted far bigger followers to them, enabling them to supply extra airflow whereas spinning slower and creating much less noise. As an alternative, we get two small-looking followers that look misplaced in an awesome expanse of heatsink shroud.
Including additional to this sense of strangeness is the truth that Asus has overclocked these playing cards, with a pace bump that matches the corporate’s current Asus TUF Gaming Radeon RX 7900 XTX OC. The default 7900 XTX sport clock is 2,365MHz, with a 2,498MHz enhance clock, however these Asus playing cards hit 2,455MHz and a pair of,615MHz respectively in their overclocked profile.
As for the RX 7900 XT, its inventory pace sport clock is 2,025MHz sport clock with a 2,394MHz enhance clock. These figures rise to 2,175MHz and 2,535MHz respectively on each the Asus TUF and new Asus Twin fashions.
Pricing of the brand new Asus Twin Radeon RX 7900 XT and XRX fashions hasn’t been made clear but, although Videocardz says it’s seen costs on European retailers which are “not even price mentioning.” We’d beg to vary on that time, however we digress. Every thing about these playing cards suggests they need to have a cheaper price than commonplace, three-fan playing cards, however that continues to be to be seen.
Within the meantime, you may as an alternative both snap up Asus’ current TUF variants of those playing cards, or there are some respectable reductions on different variants, with some RX 7900 XT offers being notably engaging, together with the XFX Speedster mannequin going for simply $729 proper now.
