AMD Radeon RX Vega Air And Liquid Cooled Edition Graphics Cards Break Cover At SIGGRAPH

by Marco Chiappetta — Saturday, July 29, 2017, 09:00 PM EDT

We are out at SIGGRAPH learning about AMD’s upcoming Radeon RX Vega GPUs and Ryzen Threadripper processors at the moment. We will have many more details to share with you tomorrow evening after AMD’s Capsaicin Event, but the company is allowing pictures of the Radeon RX Vega to be posted right away, so we thought we’d share them with you all.

Raja Koduri With The Radeon RX Vega Liquid Cooled Edition

What we have here are pictures of two Radeon RX Vega cards – the liquid and air cooled editions. Raja Koduri, Senior Vice President and Chief Architect of the Radeon Technologies Group, is holding the liquid-cooled Radeon RX Vega. The configuration is similar to the Radeon R9 Fury X, with a closed-loop liquid cooling solution, with braided tubing, and 120mm fan / radiator assembly, etc.

Radeon RX Vega Back-Plate

The other card is the air-cooled Radeon RX Vega limited edition model, with brushed metal shroud and matching back-plate. As you can see in the pictures, the card features a similar display output configuration to current Polaris-based cards (3 x DisplayPort, 1 x HDMI), with a vented case bracket that has perforations of varying sizes.

Radeon RX Vega Air-Cooled Edition

The card also features a pair of 8-pin PCI Express power connectors and additional decorative venting on the back-plate. Other than the pictures, however, we don’t have much more to share. Rest assured, more news is coming – soon. More disclosures will be revealed tomorrow evening and full reviews are in the works as well.

Tags: AMD, Radeon, graphics, GPU, vega, (nasdaq:amd), amd-radeon

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com