We’ve noted in our reviews the Radeon RX 5700 XT and RX 5700, that AMD’s reversion to the old-style blower cooler has caused their new cards to slip a bit against NVIDIA’s new dual-fan FE approach. Even at comparative performance levels, temperatures and noise are too high on both Radeon Navi cards which also equates to clock frequencies to drop significantly during gaming and load situations. We’ve noted the same on NVIDIA’s older Founders and reference releases and this new AMD launch echoes the same sentiments that most enthusiasts want: custom cooling and custom PCBs.
In a recent Reddit post by Scott Herkelman who is lead at the Radeon division at AMD, we’re still around a month off from custom Radeon RX 5700 cards. Herkelman stated that custom Radeon RX 5700 XT and RX 5700 cards will be arriving by the middle of August. He also added that they hope to send the cards out to reviewers earlier with this launch. He further states and acknowledges the reference cooling is the biggest drawback of the Radeo RX 5700 series cards design and that he liked the idea of a dual- or triple-fan reference design similar to NVIDIA’s new RTX reference Founders Edition cards.
During COMPUTEX, ASRock showed off some new design concepts which shows us dual and triple-fan coolers from the company who is an AMD partner.