What are the differences between cooling systems of different brands?
In fact, it is only the cooler and the color of the textolite that visually betray the brand. There are three approaches to creating the cooling system for a 5900XT-based card: a single massive cooler that covers the GPU as well as memory chips (Gigabyte, Sparkle); a cooler on the GPU and individual heatsinks on memory chips (Albatron, Gainward, Prolink, ELSA, Club-3D); a cooler on the GPU and naked memory chips (AOpen, MSI, Leadtek). From the point of view of choosing the best card, the last variant seems preferable since you see what memory chips are installed there. In the first case, you can also remove the cooler and examine the memory. You can’t do that with individual heatsinks because they are dead-glued to the chips (without any fastening holes like in the 5700 Ultra card). Well, memory doesn’t need much cooling on a 5900XT card, so some manufacturers don’t use heatsinks at all, without any problems for the end-user.
