XFX Teases New Radeon GPU Lineup With Swappable Fan Design
Today, most graphics cards are hardly customizable beyond RGB lighting, but some AIBs do try to innovate in customizability from time to time; AMD’s board partners historically has more leeway to offer unique features, particularly in the visual department (PowerColor offers several backplate designs for its Red Devil line of GPUs). Another Team Red AIB, XFX, is teasing a new GPU that may offer swappable fan designs.
XFX Phoenix Nirvana Coming To Global Market?
Technically speaking, the product that XFX is teasing on its X (Twitter) page is not new – the company has previously launched it in China last month, under the name of “Phoenix Nirvana” (凤凰涅槃) series. Whether XFX may choose to market this design with a new name is anyone’s guess, but it wouldn’t be surprising, given that many products released in China are often marketed under different names compared to what the global market is familiar with.
Assuming the global release of this GPU hasn’t changed its underlying components, we can look at what it is based on the marketing materials published by XFX China. The fans are magnetically attached (similar to MagSafe), but are otherwise a normal axial fan with 3200RPM max speed, 70.08 CFM airflow, 4.88 mmH₂O air pressure, and PWM controls (supports 0dB mode). In the case of RX 7900 XTX variant, this is a huge card: it’s 346mm long and 68mm thick – making it a quad-slot card.
However, the practicality of swappable fans on a GPU remains unproven for now. GPU fans are never standardized short for rare exceptions that may allow you to fit a full-size 120mm fan, so it’ll be worth watching if XFX may release an improved fan design for future upgrades, or simply release visually customized versions of the fans across all Phoenix Nirvana models.
Pokdepinion: I wonder how is the customization going to work out for this lineup.
