The ASRock Radeon RX 7800 XT graphics card comes inside a standard cardboard box. The front of the package has a large "Phantom Gaming" brand logo along with the "ASRock" logo in the top left corner and the "OC Edition" badge in the lower left corner.
The back of the box is very typical, highlighting the main features and specifications of the cards. ASRock lists down some key features of the card such as its Phantom Gaming 3X cooling system, the stylish metal backplate, Polychrome SYNC RGB, LED On/Off switch, 0DB Silent Cooling and a Super Alloy PCB design.
The packaging also focuses on the various features offered by the AMD RDNA 3 architecture such as Instant Replay, Noise Suppression, Radiance Display Engine, Smart Technology, FidelityFX, Radeon Super Resolution and the AMD Software Adrenalin Edition driver suite.
The sides of the box once again greet us with the large Radeon branding. There's also the mention of 16 GB GDDR6 (RX 7800 XT) memory available on the card. Outside of the box, the graphics card and the accessory package are held firmly by foam packaging.
The card is nicely wrapped within an anti-static cover which is useful to prevent any unwanted static discharges on various surfaces that might harm the graphics card. After the package is taken care of, I can finally start talking about the card itself.
The ASRock Radeon RX 7800 XT Phantom Gaming OC is a massive graphics card and features very high-end cooling which you can notice as soon as you lay your eyes on this beast. The card is a 2.5-slot form factor design and measures 328x140x53mm. It also uses a very nice black & purple color scheme which we haven't seen used a lot on custom designs. In fact, the shroud is very similar to ASRock's 7900 XTX Phantom Gaming which uses a red and black color scheme.
The cooling shroud extends all the way to the back of the PCB. The back of the card features a metal backplate which also employs the same black and purple color scheme.
In terms of design, we are looking at an updated version of the Phantom Gaming cooler which comes with a new 3D Cooling system and a bigger heatsink surface area to cool down the RDNA GPUs.
The main changes include the shroud and heatsink design that features a neater shroud design on the front which features the claw-shaped pattern on the front and a hint of brushed/matte black on the surface.
Coming to the fans, the card actually features the latest fan designs based on the Striped-Ring technology. The middle fan operates in reverse spin to lower turbulence & enhance air output through the heatsink. Each fan is equipped with 13 fan blades featuring the stripe structure on inner layers, a ring surface around the sides, and a polishing surface on the flip side.
ASRock uses its own 0dB Silent Cooling technology across all three fans which provides optimal cooling based on workloads and temperatures. The fans won't spin if the temperature is below a certain threshold (60C) and will only operate as the temps go up in a gradual stance.
I am back at talking about the full-coverage, full metal-based backplate that the card uses. The whole plate is made of solid metal with rounded edges that add to the durability of this card. The matte-black and purple finish on the backplate gives a unique aesthetic. There are heat pads used under the backplate for further cooling and ASRock also says that the backplate prevents the card from bending.
Another major feature of the design is the reinforced metal frame on the sides which prevents the card from bending.
On the sides of the card, you can see a large Phantom Gaming acrylic plate which lits up with Polychrome RGB and looks great. It definitely is one of the premium-looking qualities of this graphics card.
The insides of the card make use of a very large heatsink that comes in two aluminum fin blocks with several heat pipes. The heatsink uses an air-deflecting fin design that guides the air to go through the heatsink quickly without any blockades. There are also V-shaped air vents on the back that throw hot air out of the heatsink.
The graphics card is composed of a total of five copper heat pipes that lay directly over the nickel-plated copper base. The base plate also makes contact with the 8 memory modules featured on the card.
The heatsink heavily uses a high-density metal welding process and tightly packs each aluminum fin together for maximum heat dissipation area.
I/O on the card a single HDMI 2.1 and 3 DisplayPort 2.1 connectors. The back also features a large exhaust vent.
Power is provided through a dual 8-pin connector with ASRock recommending an 800W PSU to boot this card.
Removing the cooler, we get to see the 11-phase PCB design that is controlled by the Monolithic Power Systems MP2857 IC and MP87997 DrMOS MOSFETS rated at 70A. There are also four more phases for the VRAM and the SOC.
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