Wild Design: Yeston RX 9070 XT “Waifu” Sakura Sugar Atlantis GPU Review & Benchmarks Leave a comment
The unhealthy information is that it’s $850 to $900, relying if you discover it in inventory. The excellent news is that the prices are just made up and none of this issues anyhow. That is nonetheless someway cheaper than a few of the different flagship 9070 XT playing cards on the market.
Yeston is the China-based video card producer that we first discovered about once we reviewed the Yeston RX 580 Cute Pet in 2019, and we by no means knew it’d flip right into a half-decade-long collection of reviewing their totally different strategy to GPUs.
Within the time since, we additionally checked out Yeston’s Cute Pet aluminum mini PC case. We additionally examined their RX 5700 XT, which we known as “Waifu version.” We later checked out their RX 6700 XT Sakura card with blue, purple, and white coloring, and most not too long ago, we examined Yeston’s 7900 XTX Sakura Sugar GPU, which really had a much less fan-service-y thematic and blended some neon Cyberpunk-like styling in a method that makes it clear the massive video card companions can completely do extra – and it doesn’t have to only be pink and purple, both.
Surprisingly, Yeston has managed to make general efficient designs regardless of clearly investing the vast majority of its give attention to seems to be or theming. The outdated RX 580 Cute Pet and more moderen Sakura playing cards, whether or not or not they’re your particular model, have proven that there’s a ton of room for extra uniquely visualized video playing cards with out going pure black-and-RGB. They’ve additionally finished nicely general with thermal design.
However Yeston has gone overboard: They’ve a complete universe now.
Along with having backstories and lore written into its guide for its characters in an nearly comedian e book like model, Yeston has only recently debuted its new forged of future again plate artwork characters.
There’s this guy, from a Cyberpunk dystopia. His identify is “Sport Ace.”
However we assume the GPU will likely be extensively rebranded because the “Yeston Husbandu” version. They’ll have anime GPUs for everybody.
Let’s get into the evaluate.
The brand new RX 9070 XT Atlantis we’re reviewing, regardless of being known as “Atlantis,” isn’t water-cooled. It makes use of 3 followers and a modestly sized finstack.
Yeston’s marketing says it employs “chameleon impact paint” that “unfolds resplendent and ever-shifting visible feats for avid gamers underneath numerous lighting eventualities,” which, credit score to them, is just like the inverse of PowerColor’s prologue about hellstones and darkish obelisks.
The Yeston card has a dual-color shroud with a fade from purple to pink and has color-matching in every single place. They’ve finished an excellent job with the colour concept on this card. The PCB is white to match the white again plate, exhibiting good consideration to element, as is the PCIe bracket. The stickers on the followers even have tiny dots of glitter inside them to dazzle and impress all of your bros after they take a look at your PC for LAN events. The again plate has, uh– nicely…
…This. We suppose it’s not shocking what we’d get with Yeston concerned in order that hasn’t modified.
Yeston’s 9070 XT version Waifu has a backstory as soon as once more, this time apparently involving… enjoying guitar and singing, or one thing. We’re not likely certain.
However we’re going to take credit score for popularizing the Yeston playing cards because the “Waifu” playing cards again earlier than we even knew the identify of their firm.
What we didn’t know was that the corporate itself would then comply with our lead and the immense reputation behind that identify and start calling their own products “Waifu” GPUs — however they did.
And Yeston, if you happen to’re studying this, we simply need you to know that we didn’t imply it. That’s not meant to be an actual identify. It was a joke.
Anyway, the necessary half is that the advertising says it “comes with an ocean-themed perfume module, which ensures a long-lasting nice scent.”
Properly, we’ll see about that. We’re going to tear this card down now and search for the alleged “perfume module.” It undoubtedly has been blasted with fragrance, however up till now, we haven’t seen that built-in in a “modular” method.
Yeston RX 9070 XT Tear-Down
The again of the cardboard has a big flow-through space.
The fin stack is vertically-oriented, which suggests the air ought to exit the highest and backside of the cardboard, which is fairly typical. One draw back is that the cardboard’s shroud is sadly masking perhaps about 15% of the finned space. This implies extra space might have come out from the cardboard if it weren’t blocked by a giant piece of plastic. That’s unlucky and can have an effect on thermal outcomes.
The cardboard has three PCIe energy connectors on the prime. On the again, there are 2 holes with switches inside them. Certainly one of them is a BIOS change and the opposite is an LED change toggle.
Eradicating the again plate is fairly easy with a handful of screws to unscrew. There’s additionally 4 screws which safe the warmth sink to the PCB.
The leaf spring is a regular design. It additionally has isolating pads on it and captive screws within the nook.
Eradicating the cooler from the cardboard, the contact patch seems to be to make use of a phase-change pad. The reminiscence makes use of 3 pads, that are on the nickel-plated copper chilly plate. This implies the GPU and reminiscence use the identical chilly plate.
The cardboard makes use of 7 warmth pipes, which undergo everything of the cardboard.
The cardboard additionally employs thermal pads for VRM and MOSFET cooling within the picture above.
There’s additionally somewhat plate close to the middle right here, which seems to be prefer it was designed for stabilization.
The cardboard has as thick of a fin space as it will possibly get, notably for the flow-through space.
Wanting on the PCB, the corporate has actually good consideration to element on the white board, which matches the white again plate, and compliments the light-colored shroud on the entrance nicely. The colour matching is cool to see.
By way of the design of the PCB, the corporate has obtained room for additional phases.
Shifting ahead with the tear down, we eliminated some screws to take away the PCB from its again plate. Doing so exposes some very beige thermal pads on the again plate, which measure roughly 2-2.5 millimeters. It’s good that Yeston is benefiting from the steel on the again plate with the thermal pads right here, because it helps calm down the reminiscence modules.
To launch the shroud from the fin stack, we needed to take away 4 screws. One of many screws featured a cut-out to accommodate a screw driver, which is a pleasant design.
The shroud has a fairly large PCB for the LEDs. We additionally observed a foil inside, which we presume is to assist replicate a few of that gentle to try to get issues trying brighter. Every part is routed by one cable. Every of the three followers is mounted with 4 screws, which is fairly commonplace.
This shroud space is the place we additionally discovered the scent module. We requested for opinions of the scent across the workplace and obtained a number of opinions which ranged from it smelling like: a automobile freshener, a free pattern kiosk at a mall, material softener, and a Glade plugin.
We do not know what the scent module is fabricated from. It feels prefer it’s fabricated from plastic and we’re undecided how Yeston is implementing its odor.
Equilibrium Thermals, Noise, and Energy
This plot of temperature at equilibrium compares the Yeston card in opposition to the Sapphire Pulse XT that we already reviewed and not too long ago did a tear down on. We’ll maintain including to this.
To this point, the 2 playing cards are hitting the identical GPU edge temperature at 56 levels Celsius when in a managed ambient of +/- 1* C from 21 C. The coolers obtain the identical efficiency on the GPU core. Sizzling spot temperature is comparatively excessive on each, however not but untenable on the Yeston card: It’s at 85 levels when left to run at its auto settings, or 84 with our noise-normalized goal that we’re starting to gather knowledge for. We haven’t run the Pulse XT at this goal but.
The reminiscence temperature is the true differentiator: The Yeston card held an 82-degree reminiscence temperature end result, which is suitable. The Sapphire Pulse XT is operating too quietly for its personal good right here, hitting 90 levels Celsius on reminiscence in open air. In a warmer case, it will develop into an issue. We expect the Pulse ought to ramp its fan speeds extra. They’re the identical for core, however the Yeston card has a big reminiscence benefit.
Each playing cards are on the similar energy stage, so noise stays a key differentiator.
As for the Silent VBIOS on the Yeston card, its fan pace was an identical and the take a look at outcomes had been an identical. We couldn’t discover a actual change between the 2 VBIOS choices.
Thermals vs. Fan RPM
This plot exhibits thermals over time to higher perceive the fan ramp and hysteresis.
The Yeston GPU ramped to about 50 levels initially, kicking on the fan to 1,450 RPM and holding quickly. This briefly stalled the temperature climb, however then the temperature continued ramping — which is anticipated conduct till it hits regular state — and weirdly, fan pace dropped massively after this. It fell from 1,450 RPM to round 1,100-1,160 RPM. We’ve seen this conduct on AMD playing cards up to now. This conduct is managed largely by VBIOS.
Plotting the Sapphire GPU, it oddly exhibited comparable, however extra exaggerated conduct: The Pulse XT initially aggressively ramped its followers to 1,560 RPM, then dropped them to 1,400, then dipped to 1,330, then again as much as 1,400, then all the way down to 1,130 RPM, then again as much as 1,250 RPM, then all the way down to settle at 1,096 RPM till it settled even decrease on the finish of the take a look at at regular state. This erratic fan conduct is simply plain unhealthy: This type of fan fluctuation is noticeable to a consumer. You’re extra prone to discover a change in noise than a relentless, louder noise, and this quantity of change over a span of 10 minutes could be noticeable.
We’re undecided what it’s in VBIOS or AMD’s drivers that will be inflicting this conduct, nevertheless it ought to be flattened and corrected.
Acoustic Frequency Spectrum
This subsequent plot was taken in our hemi-anechoic chamber, which is beneficial not just for hiding from paper launches and fake MSRPs, but additionally for benchmarking elements. Our chamber was a serious funding in our take a look at high quality and accuracy and we’ve already gotten worth out of on a regular basis financial savings from it.
We’re simply the regular state fan pace right here. Right here’s the plot of the Yeston RX 9070 XT Atlantis card in opposition to the Sapphire Pulse that we reviewed. Each are proven represented by their fan speeds they ran throughout thermal benchmarking at regular state.
The Yeston 9070 XT has one spike at round 164 Hz, one other small bump at round 400 to 515 Hz, then a gradual fall-off after that. Its frequency distribution is comparatively typical. For reference, the 5090 — which is louder — can be plotted. You possibly can see that the 9070 XT Atlantis follows the overall pattern of the 5090 FE (learn our review), aside from the 5090’s spike round 2,000 Hz and three,200 Hz.
The 9070 XT Pulse from Sapphire ran quieter than the Yeston 9070 XT Atlantis general, which can be mirrored on this extremely flat frequency spectrum plot. We’re too near the noise ground for good readings right here. As soon as we purchase our new microphone tools, we’ll be capable to drop the ground nearer to six dBA. For now, the Pulse’s VBIOS temperature goal ends in a low noise stage.
Yeston RX 9070 XT Gaming Benchmarks
We’ll shortly go over some gaming charts. There gained’t be a lot significant change right here, however that’s anticipated. A lot of the profit from these associate fashions is in so-called “high quality of life” options, akin to higher cooling, higher acoustics, additional VBIOS or LED switches, seems to be, and overclocking energy headroom (however the silicon lottery itself is generally the identical between playing cards).
For that cause, we’ll maintain it quick. We’ve eliminated all playing cards from these charts besides the 9070 collection. For comparisons in opposition to NVIDIA and different AMD playing cards, verify our review of the 9070 or 9070 XT.
Resident Evil 4 – 1440p
In Resident Evil 4 at 1440p, the 9070 XT Atlantis outperformed the 9070 XT Pulse on a pure technicality: We’re seeing a few 1 FPS benefit for the Yeston card.
Resident Evil 4 – 4K
At 4K, we noticed a constant end result: It’s up at 103.6 FPS AVG in opposition to 102.9. That’s nicely inside variance and margin of error. You may get this sort of swing mainly by restarting the take a look at sufficient instances. For those who can discover this sort of enchancment, you need to most likely join a reflex analysis facility or one thing.
Starfield – 4K
It’s at the least constant: In Starfield at 4K, we noticed the identical conduct. The Yeston card is marginally quicker in framerate. This isn’t a significant change, however it’s turning into a sample. The distinction in lows will not be significant. These are an identical outcomes.
Closing Fantasy XIV – 4K
Closing Fantasy at 4K has the 2 9070 XTs we’ve examined as almost completely an identical. However after all, probably the most adept avid gamers amongst you’ll determine the 0.1 FPS AVG distinction.
Cyberpunk 2077 PHL – 1080p RT Medium
In Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty at 1080p with RT Medium, we measured the Atlantis card as 0.3 FPS AVG increased than the Pulse XT. There’s no significant distinction right here.
We’ll name it there since that is clearly all the identical.
Yeston RX 9070 XT Conclusion
As soon as once more, Yeston has managed to make one thing that has some precise coloration concept to it, exhibiting precise makes an attempt at design. If its aesthetics aren’t your factor, we get it, however the firm is doing issues which are totally different. It’s taking dangers and that’s nice to see.
Whereas Yeston seems to be prefer it makes use of meme/anime archetypes, they’re nonetheless designing issues, that, in lots of circumstances, do fairly nicely. This explicit card, nonetheless, does have middling thermal and acoustic efficiency. It’s aggressive with the Sapphire Pulse card and it manages its fan curve and RPM response significantly better. As well as, the Yeston card’s thermals are higher.
By way of general efficiency, it’s high quality. It achieves what it wants to realize. For those who like the way it seems to be and are keen to pay no matter its road worth is, then it’s high quality as we discovered no main points with it.