I noticed in the video he mentioned the Radeon RX 7700S is a 2nd gen. Did I miss where he breaks down the differences or changes between the 1st and 2nd gen?
At first I thought the 2nd gen would include the ability to charge from the rear USB-C port to bring that to match that functional parity with the 5070 GPU, but on the website, it didn’t say that (just USB-C with alt displayport, just like on the OG version).
Changes to the shell itself, new fans (fan blade design) and ptm instead of cooling paste. No PCB changes. It is the same, basically some optimizations.
Ah, okay, thanks. For some reason, I thought he was talking about the shell as well as the 5070. I missed that he was talking about the 7700S.
Thanks!
Does anybody know if installation of 2nd gen fan is going to make it 100% like fans on 2nd gen 7700S module? They specifically mention reoptimizing the fan blade geometry and controller IC for reduced noise. What do they mean by controller IC? Is that located on the fan itself or on the new motherboard?
The fan controller IC is on the fan itself.
@nrp just wanted to say that I LOVE that as the CEO you are in the forums and actively commenting on these questions.
Just another reason I love this company.
This is pretty much it. I believe that these changes to the 7700S are also on (from?) the 5070. Maybe they made it for the 5070 and realized it would improve the 7700S. Either way there are fan, thermal, and acoustic benefits from this gen 2.
I hope someone test the new 7700S. I’d be curious to see how much of a difference it makes.
Is charging and display out over one cable possible with the new AMD Module? And if so, will it be possible when only switching to the newer AMD-Graphics-Module and leaving laving the rest of the FW15 in GEN1-Stage? Is 240 Watt possible over the graphics-Module?
Thanks
Christian
It’s my understanding that only the RTX 5070 is getting the charging through the USB-C connector. I’d assume adding that to the 7700S would require a complete redesign of the GPU.