When it comes to the Taiwanese brand ASRock, most gamers associate it with affordable and functional motherboards. However, like most large Taiwanese vendors, the company at some point began active expansion and launched the production of video cards. And because the company works exclusively with Radeon, ignoring the more popular graphics cards from NVIDIA, ASRock's products fly under the radar of most gamers.


By the end of 2023, ASRock has launched all of its most popular series, including Steel Legend, Phantom Gaming, Challenger and Taichi. It is the last series that is assigned the role of a showcase, in which the potential buyer has a view of all the most beautiful, expensive and powerful. The gentleman's set of Taichi video cards includes a redesigned printed circuit board with serious tweaks to the power subsystem, factory overclocking of the chip, dual BIOS and a reinforced backplate with additional supports and proprietary ASRock Polychrome ARGB backlighting. A serious approach to literally every little thing makes these video cards similar to video cards from Asus ROG Strix, Gigabyte Aorus, ZOTAC AMP! Extreme and EVGA FTW.

At the time of writing this material (note: December 2023), the most popular and “advanced” solution in the series is the ASRock Radeon RX 7900 XTX Taichi 24GB OC model, which fully reveals all the principles of the series. It occupies three expansion slots, is equipped with three 8-pin power connectors and a cooling system with three Taichi fans and an enhanced 22-phase power subsystem, which will not limit the overclocking of the device in any way. It is also worth noting the good factory overclocking of the GPU (almost +10% of the nominal), two operating modes of the cooling system (performance and silence) and an impressive 24 GB of GDDR6 memory. A year ago, only one video card in the world could boast such a reserve - GeForce RTX 4090.