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ASRock preps liquid-cooled Radeon RX 7900 XTX AQUA graphics card

AMD Radeon 7900 XTX GPU with water cooling

The ultra-premium ASRock liquid-cooled series are now coming to GPUs. 

ASRock RX 7900 XTX Aqua OC is the first graphics card based on RDNA3 architecture to officially get liquid cooling. This is a premium model designed for existing cooling loops, and it cannot be used without them.

The Aqua will make use of the same board as RX 7900 XTX Taichi, which is a full custom design with three 8-pin power connectors, now clearly visible. This is a dual-slot design with custom full cover water block.

ASRock Radeon RX 7900 XTX Aqua, Source: VideoCardz

ASRock Aqua series were to this moment exclusive to the company’s motherboard lineup. These are special board series with preinstalled monoblocks for CPUs and VRMs, but also with sleek black and silver design. Aqua series are always limited in number and relatively expensive, as a result not very popular outside the enthusiast and overclocking communities.

What might be worth noting is that thus far ASRock did not launch an X670E Aqua motherboard, so a full AMD/ASRock Aqua setup is not possible with the latest hardware, but there is an older X570 version.

ASRock X570/Z690 Aqua motherboards, Source: ASRock

ASRock is set to launch its Radeon RX 7900 series on December 13th. As far as we know, Aqua GPU is limited to the XTX variant featuring the full-fat Navi 31 GPU and 24 GB of GDDR6 memory.



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NVIDIA preparing liquid-cooled A100 PCIe ‘Ampere’ accelerator

NVIDIA A100 with liquid-cooling

We received a photo of the upcoming new variant of the A100 Tensor Core GPU.

The A100 based on GA100 “Ampere” GPU is a predecessor to H100 Hopper data-center accelerator. The new liquid-cooled variant is based on A100 PCIe based model released in June last year. This is not the SXM variant which is used for the HGX/DGX A100 systems.

While it’s nothing extraordinary for a data-center GPU to get liquid cooling, this model appears to be NVIDIA’s own sleek design with tubing connectors on the rear, right next to the 8-pin power connector.

A100 with NVIDIA liquid-cooling, Source: VideoCardz/NVIDIA

One should note that liquid-cooling for A100 accelerators is already widely available, except it requires manual replacement of the passive dual-slot cooler. Passive cooling may not be ideal for workstation systems where sufficient airflow is required. This is probably why NVIDIA opted for the A100 SXM variant for its DGX A100 Station, using sophisticated refrigerant cooling.

A100 with custom liquid-cooling, Source: VideoCardz



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