AMD Radeon RX 7900 “RDNA 3” engineering sample revealed, massive cooler with three fans and just two 8-pin connectors

AMD Radeon RX 7900 Series Engineering SampleRDNA 3” a video card with a massive cooler was depicted.

AMD Reference Radeon RX 7000 Series “RDNA 3” Graphics Card Cooler Illustrated with Engineering Board Requires Dual 8-Pin Connectors

In the latest leak published HXL (@9550pro), we might see AMD’s next-gen reference cooler. The card can be seen next to the Radeon RX 6950 XT reference model, which we will be comparing it to. There is no clear indication as to whether this is an XT or XTX variant, but this card is definitely part of the high-end Navi 3x “Radeon RX 7900” family, which will feature MCM architecture.

So, starting with the details, we can see a similar card that was teased AMD some time ago. The card comes with a 2.5-slot cooler that is slightly thicker and includes triple biaxial fans, each with 9 fan blades. These fans push air towards a massive aluminum heatsink that sits under the case and above vital components like the GPU, VRAM, and VRM.

The card also has a really futuristic shroud design that looks absolutely gorgeous. On the front, there are two RGB accent strips around the middle fan and two metal frames in the center. The “Radeon” logo can be seen on the side, and once again, it should glow with RGB LEDs. The sides of the card show that the card is much longer than the previous flagship RDNA 2. The Radeon RX 7000 series has a larger heatsink as well as a distinct design with 3 red stripes. There is also more space on the sides for air to pass through.

The most interesting aspect of this AMD Radeon RX 7900 “RDNA 3” graphics card is that it only comes with two 8-pin connectors, which is something that AMD itself confirmed a few days ago when Scott Herkelman stated that they would not be using the 16-pin connector used by NVIDIA. The card also doesn’t have a back panel, and since it’s an engineering board with a red PCB, that makes sense. We don’t expect power delivery to change much in the final PCB design, but we do know that AMD has prepared several PCBs for its RDNA 3 family, as detailed here.

AMD confirmed that its RDNA 3 GPUs will arrive later this year with big performance boosts. Radeon Technologies Group Senior Vice President of Development David Wang said that the next generation GPUs for the Radeon RX 7000 series will offer more than 50% performance per watt increase compared to the existing RDNA 2 GPUs. Some of the key features of the GPUs The RDNA 3 highlighted by AMD will include:

• 5nm processor node
• Advanced Chiplet Packaging
• Rebuilt computing unit
• Optimized graphics pipeline
• Next Generation AMD Infinity Cache
• Improved ray tracing capabilities
• Refined adaptive power management
• >50% Perf/Watt vs RDNA 2

The two graphics cards expected to be unveiled this week will include Radeon RX 7900 XTX 24GB and RX 7900 XT 20GB. AMD will unveil its RDNA 3 GPU architecture and Radeon RX 7000 graphics card on November 3. They have scheduled a full live stream, which you can read more about here.

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT “preliminary” specs: