AMD’s new RDNA 3-based Radeon RX 7900 XT and 7900 XTX officially go on sale today. Yesterday, we were able to show you what AMD’s own reference Radeon RX 7900 series cards can do, but in this piece we’ll be highlighting a third-party partner board from XFX, the MERC 310 Radeon RX 7900 XT. As we saw with NVIDIA’s initial GeForce RTX 40 series launches, AMD board partners seem to be taking the company’s reference designs and then pushing them to the extreme. The MERC 310, for example, offers modestly higher boost clocks, but features a much larger PCB and cooling assembly that extends the card's length to 13.5”...



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