Sapphire PR manager wishes AMD and Nvidia would let partners run wild with design — wants freedom to bring back Toxic line more often

Sapphire Technology's PR manager, Edward Crisler, expressed a desire for more design freedom in creating graphics cards, criticizing limitations imposed by AMD and Nvidia on AIB partners. These restrictions mainly concern overclocking, power delivery, and memory upgrades. Crisler highlighted how these constraints lead to performance linearity across different GPU models and hinder the creation of flagship lineups like Sapphire's Toxic series. He also discussed technical details like the success of the 12VHPWR connector in Sapphire's RX 9070 XT Nitro+ cards and questioned the accuracy of AMD's market share data based on the Steam Hardware Survey.