Hong Kong manufacturer Sapphire is one of the main ambassadors of the Radeon brand, which has been promoting the “red” products for more than ten years and has never fully collaborated with NVIDIA. Therefore, it is not surprising that they launched a new product series tied to the release of Radeon 7000 series video cards based on RDNA 3 architecture.


Let's start right away with the unusual. Sapphire for once decided to mess with the design, painting the casing, fans and all decorative elements white, and also illuminated the brand logo located on the end. All new products are equipped with a Sapphire Tri-X cooling system with three active fans with Angular Velocity Fan Blades, which create double air flow with increased pressure. At the same time, a rather large and dense radiator with composite heat pipes is responsible for passive cooling. Despite the presence of three fans, all the video cards presented at the launch turned out to be far from the largest: as a rule, they occupy 2.5 expansion slots with a length of 32 - 33 cm.

Otherwise, we have typical Sapphire products with a strong emphasis on performance, cooling and overclocking. The Radeon RX 7800 XT and RX 7700 XT models presented at the launch are equipped with a modified 14-phase power converter with high-temperature polymer-aluminium capacitors and additional fuses for the power connector. The GPU is based on a dense 14-layer printed circuit board. The fans are driven by quiet and durable double ball bearings. An aluminium backplate and additional brackets will help securely secure the video card to the motherboard.