Sapphire has just hinted at yet another future card on social media, yeah, the Radeon RX 7900 series. ... Sapphire's New Nitro RX 7900 GPU: A Teaser
I would like to see a hybrid cooled 7900xtx w/single 140mm fan option - I only have room for one fan more in my case...
Regarding Sapphire, my recent customer support experience was very poor and they don't offer three year warranty like many other manufacturers. I really think they are perhaps the number one GPU board and cooling designer now when EVGA is gone, but nevertheless the brand has left me with a sour taste. My main and only problem with my current GPU (RX 5700 XT Nitro+) is that it builds up a heat pocket with fans off underneath the heatpipes so that 'zero RPM fan' feature is useless - temperatures rise in idle so that fans loudly activate and then deactivate frequently. Instead I have to keep the fans on, which is no biggy, but the factory BIOS allows minimum of 1200 RPM, which makes the card quite audible in idle. I asked Sapphire to release a new BIOS so I could tune the fans simply on Radeon Software without having to download some third party tool, but they didn't even read my email, just answered by some nonsense (perhaps their English is not adequate?). This heat pocket issue is not limited to RX 5700 XT Nitro+, but it happens on any card that traps heat beneath the cooler and even well ventilated case will not help. It's sad when such a small fault can ruin otherwise a great product, a premium one I might add. Remember to test your coolers in idle too in tight cases (I have a big well cooled one) and let the lowest RPM be something like 600, manufacturers!
STILL have 2x Sapphire unlock 6950 CFX sitting here. Good GPU quality, and hope the 7x00 Radeon, er... XT/XTX line will have less driver growing pains... They should sell bear board GPU so power users can McGyver some CPU WC blocks to it at human prices.
Looking forward to a Sapphire Nitro white edition 7900XTX,a red devil and maybe a 7900XTX AIO edition any brand if release in a couple weeks
