The AMD RX 7900 XTX graphics card is equipped with a hidden sensor to measure the ambient temperature

YouTube channel GamersNexus, which takes an in-depth look at modern graphics cards in terms of temperature and power consumption, says two new AMD graphics cards equipped with thermistor are hidden The sensor in question is placed behind the fan and can measure the temperature of the environment inside the computer case. This feature is very useful for GPUs that can turn off the fan in light processing.

Based on the writing Video cardsParts such as graphics cards are susceptible to overheating without an ambient temperature sensor. Custom models of series graphics The GeForce GTX 10 produced by EVGA did not have an ambient temperature sensor and therefore overheated. EVGA added the sensors in question to the GTX 10 series graphics cards some time after the first series was released.

So far, AMD has not officially talked about the ambient temperature sensor in the Radeon RX 7000 series graphics cards. In addition, it is not clear whether AMD’s business partners will also add such a sensor to their graphics or not. At the moment, only Asus has shown the customized model of AMD’s new graphics.

AMD on Thursday night introduced two graphics cards Radeon RX 7900 XTX and Radeon RX 7900 XT with 24 and 20 GB of GDDR6 memory, respectively. AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX graphics card with a price of $999 and AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT graphics card with a price of $899 will be released on December 13, 2022.