“Radeon RX 5700 XT and RX 5700 from partner manufacturers in August”

On the seventh day, the seventh month of the year, AMD launched both new processors and 7-nanometer graphics cards. On the graphics card side, it’s about the Radeon RX 5700 XT and RX 5700 with the architecture Radeon DNA (RDNA) and which goes up against Nvidia’s Super graphics card in the upper middle class.

The graphics cards that looked for testers and then in stores both use a so-called blowercooler with a radial fan. It is a design that is not appreciated by all enthusiasts, which is why many speculators have instead chosen to wait for AMD’s partner manufacturers to release custom models with other cooling solutions.

Now AMD’s Radeon CEO Scott Herkelman goes out on Reddit and explains the choice of cooler, but also gives clear information about when partner – made variants can be found in stores. The launch of these models will take place in mid-August, which is in line with SweClocker’s reporting from Computex 2019 earlier this year.

When it comes to the radiator, Herkelman writes that one blower-cooler guarantees a certain level of performance regardless of the system, as this dumps the hot air outside the chassis. Other coolers with two or three axial fans can deliver both better temperatures and lower noise levels, but this presupposes an otherwise well-ventilated chassis – something AMD can not guarantee is the case when they deliver a graphics card.

The Radeon group historically has had a bad reputation of producing product launch charts that didn’t match up to real world performance. Love it or hate it the blower allowed us to guarantee performance in every system to match our launch charts. Not everyone cools their PC as good as a reviewer and definitely not as good as some of the pictures you guys have shared. It was my goal to clean all of this up so that you can trust our performance you hear from us on stage.

Furthermore, Herkelman acknowledges that AMD Radeon has a historically bad reputation with its launches, as the company’s promises have not always lived up to reality. Using a cooling solution that has a nearly consistent level of performance regardless of system is the company’s way of living up to its own commitments. As a newcomer to his post, he sees it as his “goal to clean up”, so that enthusiasts and the media in the future will be able to trust what AMD says during a presentation.

Finally, it is announced that AMD takes the feedback about the radiator solution and that Herkelman likes the idea of ​​also having graphics cards with axial fans available already on the launch day. He also says that he works to ensure that independent tests are always available before store availability.

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