A Closer Look
The card looks just like all the other Red Devil cards we’ve seen over the years. Sure, some are longer, slimmer, wider, or taller than the other. However, the black and red two-tone metal shroud design is as you would expect from PowerColor. It looks great, and those two huge fans fill me with confidence that this card can keep its heat under control.
There are thick heat pipes running everywhere here, feeding into one of the thickest radiator blocks on any card on the market. There’s some serious heavy metal engineering here. If anything, it’s just a brute force attack to GPU design. Big power delivery, big cooler, big overclocks.
It’ll take power from an 8-pin plus 6-pin cable, while gives us more than enough overhead for overclocking this card even futher.
The card is bulky and quite heavy. However, the full metal
Overall, it’s a pretty fantastic looking card. Maybe a little aggressive for some peoples tastes I’m sure. However, a card called “Red Devil” doesn’t need to justify it’s extreme looks.
Finally, before we test the card. We can see there are three DisplayPorts, one HDMI, and one DVI-D outputs. That’s more than enough for most setups, especially in this price range.
just wandering if the fact that nvidia carrds are compatible with freesync would change the conclusion as you state that there is a price premium for gsync, which if the monitor works with nvidia cards, which many freesync monitors now do, would this reflect in a slightly different gpu recomendation?