AMD Confirms “Small Percentage” of 7900 XTX GPUs Do Have a Cooling Problem!

I daresay that it hasn’t escaped your attention over the last few weeks that a growing number of reports have been citing significant concerns with the relatively newly released AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX graphics card. – With temperature hot spots being recorded at circa 109C in some instances, this has seen many models apply some notably huge levels of thermal throttling which, for those of you unaware of what this means, sees the GPU’s performance hugely fall below what it should be.

With all that being said, however, AMD has been notably quiet on the subject leaving consumers more than a little concerned surrounding their current, or potential, purchase of a 7900 XTX. – Albeit, theories from hardware sources have cited that the fault may lie within the graphics cards ‘vapour chamber’.

Is this correct though? Well, following a report via Videocardz, yes! – AMD has finally confirmed that a “small percentage” of 7900 XTX graphics cards have been affected by a vapour chamber issue. The good news, however, is that it seems that full no quibble replacements will be offered to any affected consumers!

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

Speaking in an interview, Scott Herkelman, Senior Vice President and General Manager at AMD Radeon, has (finally) confirmed that a “small percentage” of Radeon RX 7900 XTX graphics cards do have a definitive issue within the vapour chamber design. – He has, however, stressed that, overall, this is not a widespread issue, and more so, that the issue is entirely restricted to ‘reference’ designs meaning that custom cooling models from AIB partners should not have any problems here.

“It all comes down to a small batch of vapor chamber actualy have an issue, not enough water and it is a very small percentage (…) that’s the root cause.”

AMD has additionally confirmed that any consumers experiencing this problem are entitled to a full no quibble replacement of their GPU and should contact either their initial retailer or (probably more successfully) their GPU manufacturer’s customer support for further information should they wish to pursue this.

Overall though, while it took AMD a bit longer to respond to this than many might’ve hoped, the news does seem to be mostly positive. Well, no, a fault is never a good thing, but at least AMD seems to know what went wrong and is willing to freely replace any GPUs experiencing this hot spot vapour chamber bug! – Lest we forget that Nvidia has still yet to make any kind of formal conclusion/announcement regarding the 12VHPWR adaptor matter.

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