Tom's Hardware had an article about how often graphics cards are sent back to manufactures from consumers due to faults and holy moly PowerColor is one of the worst along with Gigabyte and Saphire. I can't remember the exact numbers but around 2% of their cards are faulty when they reach consumers YIKES!! For Palit (yes, cheaper card) the percentage was the lowest with around 0.5% or 1 in 200 being sent back.. 2 in 100 is just too much.. I was gonna get a Gigabyte 4070 but hmmm this has made me stop and think..
When a company is as proud of their organization, cleanliness, efficiency, and skill as PowerColor is, and that pride becomes known, I think that company will get a serious boost. Consumers love seeing where their stuff comes from (except sausages).
sad reality is that if those sweatshop workers did a single mistake they would not be paid for the whole day. so they are forced to worked like robots.
This is incredible! PowerColor's level of transparency here is bold, and seeing their process truly inspires confidence. It makes me proud to own their products and support such a company. I bought the PowerColor RX 7900 XTX Red Devil Limited Edition on launch and it's been a wonderful card!
Tom's Hardware had an article about how often graphics cards are sent back to manufactures from consumers due to faults and holy moly PowerColor is one of the worst along with Gigabyte and Saphire. I can't remember the exact numbers but around 2% of their cards are faulty when they reach consumers YIKES!! For Palit (yes, cheaper card) the percentage was the lowest with around 0.5% or 1 in 200 being sent back.. 2 in 100 is just too much.. I was gonna get a Gigabyte 4070 but hmmm this has made me stop and think..
Showcases and transparency like this is way more valuable to me than the average consumer advertisement these companies do. Shoutout to Crucial, PowerColor, TeamGroup and many other companies who decided to prove their quality instead of just speak of it in the industry.
Props to PowerColor for being this open about their assembly process. As a technical person, this was arguably the best advertisement of their brand -- they are sufficiently confident of their methods that they're willing to go on public record with a video. I don't shop for GPUs often, but I'll be looking for PowerColor next time, and I hope this video nets them lots of sales. And thanks for the effort, Roman; this was a fun watch. 👍
I have a PowerColor Red Devil RX 5700XT GPU and it was the best buy of all my PC components. Not one issue EVER since Holiday 2019. Bad boy is still running strong and acn handle event the most demanding games modestly. Usually they are some of the best rated AIB's available on the market. This video tour just cements my confidence (if possible) in a PowerColor buy.
Many other companies are so secretive it's almost funny at times. I have an engineer friend who worked at a few places and they often forbid employees to show pictures of their workplace even if it's just a random office or corridor. Meanwhile Powercolor just does this and everyone likes it.
Tom's Hardware had an article about how often graphics cards are sent back to manufactures from consumers due to faults and holy moly PowerColor is one of the worst along with Gigabyte and Saphire. I can't remember the exact numbers but around 2% of their cards are faulty when they reach consumers YIKES!! For Palit (yes, cheaper card) the percentage was the lowest with around 0.5% or 1 in 200 being sent back.. 2 in 100 is just too much.. I was gonna get a Gigabyte 4070 but hmmm this has made me stop and think..
@@KS-nm6rt Sapphire and powercolor are one of the best amd vendors dont think you ever owned one and still copying and pasting the same shit on multiple peoples comments
@@dinobot_maximize oh I'm fully aware, but PowerColor seeing people SAY it will encourage them to continue this kind of thing. I could say nothing and just buy a card later in the year, but that's not easily attributable to this video
@@kodikuu My Red Devil Limited Edition 7900XTX don't have any of the dry up thermal paste problem. It sure is an issue but its also on a small scale. Was definitely a bad QC during some of their production line.
Wow! Thank you Powercolor for allowing this. Very cool of you to be so open and proud of your process. Well done Roman; this is top-tier content. That picker machine blew my tiny mind.
We need more brands/AIBs to be so transparent like PowerColor, and shows us how they made the products that we buy. Very thanks to PowerColor for letting you show us everything.
I used to work in a facility like this (but not VGA and I was in a clean room) and I'm 100% confident that all the other brands build their cards the same way, they probably use the same machines too (or very similar ones). Because this is the way you _have to_ make these cards, there is no other way. The difference is how the different brands QC their end-products and where do they order their PCB and SMD components from.
Big players like NVIDIA or ASUS would never allow this, and definitely not to der8auer. Someone like Linus might have a chance under strict surveillance like the tour with Intel.
The access is unprecedented. Insane just how much technology and work is needed to create those things. I remember repasting my GPU and my father helping me (he used to build radios) and when he saw the size of the components he was mesmerized.
Well this is nothing compared to a silicon fab. All they do here is assemble the pcb, there isnt anything secret or unique. This is just mostly pr for powercolor.
I have so much respect for PowerColor for this transparency. I went for Gigabyte this gen for my 7900 XTX, but I can safely say I'll be going PowerColor in the future simply because of this. It's hard to under-rate transparency... even 'if' other OEMs have superior practices, I would take an open, transparent, verifiable source of hardware over a private/hidden source any day - this is a fantastic step.
Stuff like this is some of the best advertisement there is, companies allowing us this much transparency makes me so much more want to support them. Good video, good coverage and awesome that PowerColor let you show all of this!
Its interesting to see how small the workshop actually is - like if it was a small family business, where everybody knows everybody. And the calm process, where workers were seen waiting for the card and not rushed - thumbs up for PowerColor managers and process directors!
PowerColor grew a lot in my eyes now, the balls on them to have a literal German engineer that's a living legend in PC hardware overclocking and custom components to improve PC hardware, knowing very well he's a chill perfectionist that would not hesitate to show and mention anything he'd find or consider wrong or that could be improved. Impressive. And what an relaxing and interesting tour that was, thanks to everyone!
I really like how they allowed you to film everything. It gives people that are thinking of going into the manufacturing industry an idea of the types of jobs available, what they can apply for, and what they can expect to be doing on the job. It is so nice to be able to see how a job is done, instead of feeling intimidated by unknowns. It is also really good advertising to the consumer/end user to show how much care is put into making each card. I'll bet this will really boost sales for them.
I know this is 7 months later, but this is definitely a career path I'm trying to pursue. Technology just amazes me and something I am enthusiastic about, making it a career is something I would definitely like to do for one.
I would completely consider Power Color for my next purchase. Seeing the quality of their manufacturing gives me a stronger confidence in a band I new almost nothing about.
well i bought power color red devil 7900 xtx few months ago, and it was faulty from beginning, artifacts on every game. I was so disappointed on my luck so i went back to nvidia. Now waiting my new 4080 msi suprim x gpu...lets see how it goes. 😅 I can smell burned burned cables allready.
@@losturbinos457Should've RMA'd it, everyone can get unlucky regardless of brand. My MSI RTX 3090Ti died within the warranty period too and they replaced it.
I remembered watching this video a few months back and told myself if I make the choice to go for an AMD card I would support Powercolor for having the balls to put themselves out there like this. Just wanted to come back and say I ordered my Powercolor 7900XTX. Thanks!
Really cool of Powercolor to let you tour the factory and film it for us. I have an old HD 5770 PCS+ from them that still works, i used it for troubleshooting a while back.
Videos like this go a long way in building trust for a brand! Props to Der8auer for getting to shoot this and HUGE shoutout to PowerColor for the transparency of manufacturing. Can say this would make me consider their cards for sure.
This is wild! I work in a facility like this in a S&P 100 company and everything in it is so secretive. I couldn't imagine having a youtuber come in & pretty much display our entire process. Props for PowerColor & der8auer for doing this
I'm curious - do you enjoy the work? It seems very interesting to me. I work in a company shrouded in secrecy also. Some of the things we work on are amazing, and I get to play with things long before people know they exist. It's hard to keep it to myself sometimes :)
@@AJ_UK_LIVE I enjoy it enough to keep working there lol. It's easy work but I agree with you. Getting to see future products or experimental products is fun
Tom's Hardware had an article about how often graphics cards are sent back to manufactures from consumers due to faults and holy moly PowerColor is one of the worst along with Gigabyte and Saphire. I can't remember the exact numbers but around 2% of their cards are faulty when they reach consumers YIKES!! For Palit (yes, cheaper card) the percentage was the lowest with around 0.5% or 1 in 200 being sent back.. 2 in 100 is just too much.. I was gonna get a Gigabyte 4070 but hmmm this has made me stop and think..
What an awesome, uncensored tour of a graphics card assembly line. Powercolor has earned a lot of respect from me for giving such unfettered access to their entire manufacturing facility. Once again, thank you for sharing this awesome content with us Roman!
This was absolutely incredible. What an amazing technological achievement and showcase! Positively fascinating. :) (Also, good job, PowerColor. Nice to see such high-quality QA, and for allowing this incredible tour. :))
Awesome tour! I've owned a few Powercolour Red Devils in the past & they never once let me down. Great OC headroom with phenomenal temps! Hope you had a blast there dude!
PowerColor has somehow always been a very likeable brand in terms of market presence and dealing with customers. The open and informal approach to filming deserves a BIG THANK YOU to PowerColor, the crew and of course to Roman 👍
The pick &place machine measure the tool vacuum and knows if a component has fallen off before reaching the board. This way, the tool with the missing part does not touch the circuit board which would get solder paste in the tool. It knows....
Im no stranger to these processes but it STILL blew me away seeing this production chain. Thanks to Power Colour for allowing us to observe their facility in action!
Ads that actually work! I'm definitely more likely to consider a Powercolour card after watching this and seeing the high standard of their assembly line
That was SUPER AMAZING! Thank you! What is wild is I purchased my first PowerColor GPU this year. 7900 XT Hellhound. I am so thrilled to see this tour and so very grateful for the access you bought us. Thank you
The job of the AIB makers is definitely not a simple one. Seeing the precision involved makes me even more mad at Nvidia for treating their partners like dirt and saying they don't do anything for them.
If you knew about this stuff, It is just shitty switching regulators 50+ years old same old shit of a technology, and some basic IO and simple ITE controller chips, all the real interesting shit is in the GPU. Go and learn some stuff first before posting useless comments. You got overwhelmed by some stupid copper lanes.
The reels feeding the pick & place are specifically ordered to reduce placement time. About 8 parts are sucked up at a time and photographed as they leave the reels any rotary or cartesian offset adjustment is made on the fly to the circuit board. The parts are puffed off the tools onto the boards. To speed up the assembly pipeline, four machines are utilized. One fourth of the parts being place by each machine. That speeds up the line...
PowerColor have impressed me a lot by allowing this video of the production facilities. Most companies would not allow this to take place, very impressive. The employees also look proud of the place and seem eager to leave a nice impression. I'm in the market for a graphics card and PowerColor have just gone to the top spot for me. Thanks for making this video, have liked and subscribed.
Wow I am amazed how much quality control and care goes into their manufacturing. I am definitely considering PowerColor for my next build! Thanks for the tour!
I doubt about that.. new gen cards are power-hungry, those manufactures have electricity bills to pay Probebly they run them like 10 minutes to see how they handle heat & as last QA test to pass Any failure card will be spotted in first few minutes mostly
@@Jack_Sparrow131 they do run them an hour each, even more for some cards. They do not care about electricity costs for QA testing. Source: Cousin worked for Galax factory in Taiwan as QA tester.
@@Jack_Sparrow131 Oh yes sir they do. Only the very low end GPU's don't get that much quality control testing. Even with the big "known" companies they always pick sample cards from the batch and run them hard to test for batch integrity. It will cost MORE money to recall a batch of 10,000 cards plus all the negative PR that goes with it than to run 10 cards for an hour. There are certain standards in QA that AIB's are made to sign, and very strict quality control is part of the contract.
Now that EVGA cards are no more, seeing how open Power Colour have been in this tour, how proud they are and precise in their products manufacturing process is, my next GPU will be one of theirs....... great vid!
Hehe. Same here. Had to buy a red devil after all this time. And it's BEAUTIFUL 🔥 Had a couple chats with their customer service (for photos and such) and yeah.. great company.
@@User_1795 Maybe. Probably poorly paid, compared to what we in the "developed world" would expect. But then we who want the cards cheaper and cheaper are partly responsible for that. But I hope that they are well enough paid to make beautiful cards.
@@Navi_xoo Sad to hear that. But, then in a positive light, can you name any GPU makers who are known/proved to treat their workers in a good way. I am sure that I am not the only one who would be interested to know.
@@Navi_xoo That was/is my feeling too. And as I said originally, we the purchasers are, partly, responsible, as we demand lower and lower prices. So it comes down to trying our best to find ethical suppliers, not complaining if the price is a bit higher, and ruthlessly avoiding companies that have crap customer service or are proven to exploit workers. Its a tough job to keep all that in mind when you just want a decent GPU.
I used to work for a company that produced control modules for hybrid vehicles - and the manufacturing process of the electronics was surprisingly similar to the processes in the video. Everything from the filmrolls with the thousands of capacitors, to the vacuum sealed PCBs, to the quality control - basically the same process lol
PowerColor have always been one of my favorite brands. My last three cards have been from them and they always exceed expectations at an affordable price. They're customer service are really good too. My brothers rx 560 was just a few weeks out of warranty when it failed and they still replaced it and even paid for the shipping. I currently have an rx 5700 xt red dragon and it's been a great card for the past 3-4 years.
amazing thanks to PowerColor, all the staff and also der8auer for making this tour possible - very interesting and jaw dropping seeing so much expensive equipment in use.
A tip to deal with glass/light reflection, look into a polarized filter for your camera lens, by twisting it you should be able to filter out reflections on glass by quite a lot, and make filming into glass cases like this a lot easier. Very cool to see this all though! awsome job
With this type of access given to der8auer to allow me to see their process - It gives me much more confidence in adding this company to my list of companies I am willing to consider when buying my next graphics card. Looks like a quality manufacturing process.
Wow, this exact card being made is the one I was heavily considering on purchasing. I ended up going with a Sapphire card, which was considerably more expensive, but after watching this, it gives me more confidence (and little bit of buyers remorse too lol) that a PowerColor card will also get the job done. Excellent video! Awesome of PowerColor just letting you record whatever you wanted, pretty much showing off their confidence.
Thank you, PowerColor. Excellent insight and very interesting to see it all mesh together. Props to you Roman, clearly the boffins at PowerColor like what you do.
My next GPU will be from Powercolor. Really appreciate the hard work. It was really nice to get to see the manufacturing process. Hats Off to Powercolor for allowing this. Subscribed to the channel.
Wow that's absolutely nuts. I never expected the GPU's to be made in such a clean lab like environment. Appreciate Power Colour letting you in to show us.
I worked on a SMT production line like this ~20 years ago, we were placing ~500,000 components a week. Manual inspection of the solder paste and single head machines. You would listen to the pattern of machine picking and hear the change in rhythm when a error would occur.
Gotta support companies like this, have nothing to hide, will for sure be putting powercolor at the top of my short list when i buy my next card in the 5000 series, just wish i new about these guys when i bought my 4060ti :)
Thanks to you and Powercolor for doing this, it was really neat to see how much goes into that one component in my PC build. I have a PC 6950xt and it has been great for the price. I will continue to use their products.
Great explanations and filming. I'm surprised at how small a footprint the factory takes up. I can only imagine the logistics of installing new equipment in an active cleanroom! Much thanks to Powercolor for allowing you to share such interesting info. It's such great marketing, looks like I'll go Powercolor for the next gen card!
Ya this is absolutely insane. The level of freedom they gave you for this tour cannot be overstated. I’ve been wanting to see a professional production line like this for a long long time and surprisingly here we are. Crazy. Thank you so much for this! This is top notch content and the craziest part is that it’s free!
They have a very nice setup indeed! I love seeing how much attention to detail and care they take during manufacturing. The facility also looks very clean and safe to work in.
I bought a brand new power color ex 7900xtx red devil . I went to plug in the 3 pin egg cord and both outlets broke with the slightest pressure. Spent 1100.00 for this card and haven’t even turned on the computer yet. This is my third series of red evil and I’m shocked at the quality of the rx7k series quality
This is such a cool video! Shoutout to Powercolor for allowing you to go in there without being restricted. Mad respect. You did a really great job explaining everything through each step in the process. Really nice work all around.
U better have AT LEAST a billion USD if ya wanna start a new graphic card company. That's why they're so few of them when you think about it. It's not fab expensive but it's right up there.
Plus the margins aren’t exactly great. So you better have proper operations to keep that 1 billion USD CapEx worth of equipment up and running and avoiding down time to pump out enough volume so they can sell enough cards to recoup their investments. Plus they are at the mercy of AMD. They don’t get to decide when to launch a new product, they have to be ready whenever AMD says we are launching this card on x date.
This was awesome! I always wonder how much detail goes into manufacturing micro electronics, and this video was like a playground in my eyes :D Danke Roman, Danke Powercolor!
this honestly makes me so happy seeing this process! thanks PowerColor for allowing this tour for us future customers of your product. such super clean and professional work place for the workers is a plus. future customer right here :)
Wow, I am really positively suprised that they give you permission for be there and film everything with details. I like it very much, as I know, the manufacturers often are keeping most of processes in secret. If PowerColor produce their cards like it is presented in your video then... Respect!
This is my favorite RUclips video in a long time, I have always been a fan of 'how it's made' and this is something I never thought I would see in that style format. Good job, thank you!
WOW! Full respect to PowerColor for allowing this 👌 What made this even better is that Der8auer knew what was happening at almost every step and could describe it to us. That made a HUGE difference in understanding the process. Anyway, next time I need a graphics card, I will definitely look at PowerColor first.
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Mad respect to PowerColor for allowing this! Great content as always
I am not that surprised by it. Their production process and facility is totally standard. For competitors not much to see.
@@p_mouse8676 "I am not that surprised by it" Let me see any other from ASUS or someth, No other tech YTber has done this before from start to finish.
@@p_mouse8676 that's what i thought
@@marsruben well ASUS is just not a friendly company. i think gigabyte showed some of a motherboard factory tour.
@@p_mouse8676 I guess in this case they want to show pride in their process.
props to PowerColor for being this open about their process
it's very impressive they were willing to let you film everything
@@Jamey_ETHZurich_TUe_Rulez he is a nkigkger actor, he takes BBC down his pipe hole
@@Jamey_ETHZurich_TUe_Rulez who?
@@Jamey_ETHZurich_TUe_Rulez how do u know he is pron actor
why wouldn't they? there aren't that many manufacturers in the world and it's impossible to copy
Tom's Hardware had an article about how often graphics cards are sent back to manufactures from consumers due to faults and holy moly PowerColor is one of the worst along with Gigabyte and Saphire. I can't remember the exact numbers but around 2% of their cards are faulty when they reach consumers YIKES!! For Palit (yes, cheaper card) the percentage was the lowest with around 0.5% or 1 in 200 being sent back.. 2 in 100 is just too much.. I was gonna get a Gigabyte 4070 but hmmm this has made me stop and think..
When a company is as proud of their organization, cleanliness, efficiency, and skill as PowerColor is, and that pride becomes known, I think that company will get a serious boost. Consumers love seeing where their stuff comes from (except sausages).
Speaking as an enthusiast and an consumer, PowerColor didnt had my respect before this video, now I'mma buy their product without thinking twice
sad reality is that if those sweatshop workers did a single mistake they would not be paid for the whole day. so they are forced to worked like robots.
There's a reason power color has been around, and a favorite, for a long time now.
@@PauloRondynele just remember they are testing only 10% of their products so you can still receive a faulty card.
@@PauloRondynele my first graphic card i think it was the Radeon x800xt or so and it was a powercolor card and this thing was awesome.
This is incredible! PowerColor's level of transparency here is bold, and seeing their process truly inspires confidence. It makes me proud to own their products and support such a company. I bought the PowerColor RX 7900 XTX Red Devil Limited Edition on launch and it's been a wonderful card!
I'm proud to have RX 6700 XT RED DEVIL. WHAT A GRAPHIC'S CARD!
since ati cards i always go with power color
Tom's Hardware had an article about how often graphics cards are sent back to manufactures from consumers due to faults and holy moly PowerColor is one of the worst along with Gigabyte and Saphire. I can't remember the exact numbers but around 2% of their cards are faulty when they reach consumers YIKES!! For Palit (yes, cheaper card) the percentage was the lowest with around 0.5% or 1 in 200 being sent back.. 2 in 100 is just too much.. I was gonna get a Gigabyte 4070 but hmmm this has made me stop and think..
@@KS-nm6rt Ah thanks for the info ! :)
@@CriXsToxGamer mine hellhound too bad it has no rgb :(
Showcases and transparency like this is way more valuable to me than the average consumer advertisement these companies do. Shoutout to Crucial, PowerColor, TeamGroup and many other companies who decided to prove their quality instead of just speak of it in the industry.
I'm a first time buyer of team group drive and I have to say I'm very happy with the quality and performance.
Props to PowerColor for being this open about their assembly process. As a technical person, this was arguably the best advertisement of their brand -- they are sufficiently confident of their methods that they're willing to go on public record with a video. I don't shop for GPUs often, but I'll be looking for PowerColor next time, and I hope this video nets them lots of sales. And thanks for the effort, Roman; this was a fun watch. 👍
I have a PowerColor Red Devil RX 5700XT GPU and it was the best buy of all my PC components. Not one issue EVER since Holiday 2019. Bad boy is still running strong and acn handle event the most demanding games modestly. Usually they are some of the best rated AIB's available on the market.
This video tour just cements my confidence (if possible) in a PowerColor buy.
Many other companies are so secretive it's almost funny at times. I have an engineer friend who worked at a few places and they often forbid employees to show pictures of their workplace even if it's just a random office or corridor. Meanwhile Powercolor just does this and everyone likes it.
Tom's Hardware had an article about how often graphics cards are sent back to manufactures from consumers due to faults and holy moly PowerColor is one of the worst along with Gigabyte and Saphire. I can't remember the exact numbers but around 2% of their cards are faulty when they reach consumers YIKES!! For Palit (yes, cheaper card) the percentage was the lowest with around 0.5% or 1 in 200 being sent back.. 2 in 100 is just too much.. I was gonna get a Gigabyte 4070 but hmmm this has made me stop and think..
@@KS-nm6rt Sapphire and powercolor are one of the best amd vendors dont think you ever owned one and still copying and pasting the same shit on multiple peoples comments
With the extent of testing here, and the transparency in showing everything, my next card might just be a PowerColor one
Make sure you repaste it as soon as you get it, they put the shittiest paste they can find that dries out quickly
@@KG_BM by the looks of their production line and quality control,
I doubt they are using the cheapest paste
that's why they showed this stuff, so some like you might say to yourself that you will buy one of their cards hehe
@@dinobot_maximize oh I'm fully aware, but PowerColor seeing people SAY it will encourage them to continue this kind of thing. I could say nothing and just buy a card later in the year, but that's not easily attributable to this video
@@kodikuu My Red Devil Limited Edition 7900XTX don't have any of the dry up thermal paste problem. It sure is an issue but its also on a small scale. Was definitely a bad QC during some of their production line.
Wow! Thank you Powercolor for allowing this. Very cool of you to be so open and proud of your process. Well done Roman; this is top-tier content. That picker machine blew my tiny mind.
We need more brands/AIBs to be so transparent like PowerColor, and shows us how they made the products that we buy. Very thanks to PowerColor for letting you show us everything.
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Imagine ASUS getting exposed about cheap makeshift handler picking up randomly organized capacitors and slapping them on precariously
@@fruitbouquet5479 imagine that it's not hardware that's the problem at ASUS but it's software :o
I used to work in a facility like this (but not VGA and I was in a clean room) and I'm 100% confident that all the other brands build their cards the same way, they probably use the same machines too (or very similar ones). Because this is the way you _have to_ make these cards, there is no other way.
The difference is how the different brands QC their end-products and where do they order their PCB and SMD components from.
Big players like NVIDIA or ASUS would never allow this, and definitely not to der8auer. Someone like Linus might have a chance under strict surveillance like the tour with Intel.
Huge props to PowerColor! You've earned yourself a new customer. Thank you der8auer for showing us all of this beauty!
The access is unprecedented. Insane just how much technology and work is needed to create those things. I remember repasting my GPU and my father helping me (he used to build radios) and when he saw the size of the components he was mesmerized.
That's wholesome
show a phone pcb to your father and he’ll be mesmerized twice more
Well this is nothing compared to a silicon fab. All they do here is assemble the pcb, there isnt anything secret or unique. This is just mostly pr for powercolor.
It's not quite unprecedented - LTT has been inside the intel fabs before.
I have so much respect for PowerColor for this transparency. I went for Gigabyte this gen for my 7900 XTX, but I can safely say I'll be going PowerColor in the future simply because of this. It's hard to under-rate transparency... even 'if' other OEMs have superior practices, I would take an open, transparent, verifiable source of hardware over a private/hidden source any day - this is a fantastic step.
Exactly.
Stuff like this is some of the best advertisement there is, companies allowing us this much transparency makes me so much more want to support them. Good video, good coverage and awesome that PowerColor let you show all of this!
Too bad I bought an ASUS 7900XTX HAHAHAHA.
@@HenryPotier Jokes on you with Asus' anti-consumer behaviour. Good luck getting any support if it acts up.
Exactly - Its not a brand name Im that familiar with but now I would consider one when the time comes for an excuse for another card 😅
Have bought 3 Power Color cards, next card will most likely be another power color.
Its interesting to see how small the workshop actually is - like if it was a small family business, where everybody knows everybody. And the calm process, where workers were seen waiting for the card and not rushed - thumbs up for PowerColor managers and process directors!
PowerColor grew a lot in my eyes now, the balls on them to have a literal German engineer that's a living legend in PC hardware overclocking and custom components to improve PC hardware, knowing very well he's a chill perfectionist that would not hesitate to show and mention anything he'd find or consider wrong or that could be improved. Impressive. And what an relaxing and interesting tour that was, thanks to everyone!
Especially impressive when we consider they told him "do whatever you want" and factory is still running...
I really like how they allowed you to film everything. It gives people that are thinking of going into the manufacturing industry an idea of the types of jobs available, what they can apply for, and what they can expect to be doing on the job. It is so nice to be able to see how a job is done, instead of feeling intimidated by unknowns. It is also really good advertising to the consumer/end user to show how much care is put into making each card. I'll bet this will really boost sales for them.
I know this is 7 months later, but this is definitely a career path I'm trying to pursue. Technology just amazes me and something I am enthusiastic about, making it a career is something I would definitely like to do for one.
Thank you powercolour for showing the world this, its really just amazing and enlightening
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@@dhLotan its in french lol
PowrColor: Thank you so much for transparency and for letting film the manufacturing process to ordinary people like me.
I would completely consider Power Color for my next purchase. Seeing the quality of their manufacturing gives me a stronger confidence in a band I new almost nothing about.
This is very true. What an incredible way to get good press - please more companies show off like this!
I think this may be part of why they agreed to it. Not knocking it at all as it's a win-win, just pointing it out
I don't know much about quality but they have style.
well i bought power color red devil 7900 xtx few months ago, and it was faulty from beginning, artifacts on every game. I was so disappointed on my luck so i went back to nvidia. Now waiting my new 4080 msi suprim x gpu...lets see how it goes. 😅 I can smell burned burned cables allready.
@@losturbinos457Should've RMA'd it, everyone can get unlucky regardless of brand.
My MSI RTX 3090Ti died within the warranty period too and they replaced it.
I remembered watching this video a few months back and told myself if I make the choice to go for an AMD card I would support Powercolor for having the balls to put themselves out there like this. Just wanted to come back and say I ordered my Powercolor 7900XTX. Thanks!
Really cool of Powercolor to let you tour the factory and film it for us. I have an old HD 5770 PCS+ from them that still works, i used it for troubleshooting a while back.
Videos like this go a long way in building trust for a brand! Props to Der8auer for getting to shoot this and HUGE shoutout to PowerColor for the transparency of manufacturing. Can say this would make me consider their cards for sure.
This is wild! I work in a facility like this in a S&P 100 company and everything in it is so secretive. I couldn't imagine having a youtuber come in & pretty much display our entire process. Props for PowerColor & der8auer for doing this
I'm curious - do you enjoy the work? It seems very interesting to me. I work in a company shrouded in secrecy also. Some of the things we work on are amazing, and I get to play with things long before people know they exist. It's hard to keep it to myself sometimes :)
@@AJ_UK_LIVE I enjoy it enough to keep working there lol. It's easy work but I agree with you. Getting to see future products or experimental products is fun
@@jessiejames1681 guys.. where do i sign up lol
why would the process of graphics card assembly be a secret? I dont understand. Anybody can buy these automatic machines.
Tom's Hardware had an article about how often graphics cards are sent back to manufactures from consumers due to faults and holy moly PowerColor is one of the worst along with Gigabyte and Saphire. I can't remember the exact numbers but around 2% of their cards are faulty when they reach consumers YIKES!! For Palit (yes, cheaper card) the percentage was the lowest with around 0.5% or 1 in 200 being sent back.. 2 in 100 is just too much.. I was gonna get a Gigabyte 4070 but hmmm this has made me stop and think..
What an awesome, uncensored tour of a graphics card assembly line. Powercolor has earned a lot of respect from me for giving such unfettered access to their entire manufacturing facility. Once again, thank you for sharing this awesome content with us Roman!
Wow. What an honor to be able to visit that facility and not have any red tape or off limit filming locations of the machines!
This was absolutely incredible. What an amazing technological achievement and showcase! Positively fascinating. :)
(Also, good job, PowerColor. Nice to see such high-quality QA, and for allowing this incredible tour. :))
Awesome tour! I've owned a few Powercolour Red Devils in the past & they never once let me down. Great OC headroom with phenomenal temps! Hope you had a blast there dude!
I just wish they make a more subtle design like XFX
PowerColor has somehow always been a very likeable brand in terms of market presence and dealing with customers.
The open and informal approach to filming deserves a BIG THANK YOU to PowerColor, the crew and of course to Roman 👍
One of the nicest computer hardware videos on RUclips! Thanks for sharing Roman!
The pick &place machine measure the tool vacuum and knows if a component has fallen off before reaching the board. This way, the tool with the missing part does not touch the circuit board which would get solder paste in the tool. It knows....
Im no stranger to these processes but it STILL blew me away seeing this production chain. Thanks to Power Colour for allowing us to observe their facility in action!
Wow, really amazed of the openness of PowerColor. Shows that they are proud of their manufacturing process.
No blur is something I've never seen before. Kudos to Power Colour. This was very informative.
Ads that actually work! I'm definitely more likely to consider a Powercolour card after watching this and seeing the high standard of their assembly line
That was SUPER AMAZING! Thank you! What is wild is I purchased my first PowerColor GPU this year. 7900 XT Hellhound. I am so thrilled to see this tour and so very grateful for the access you bought us. Thank you
The job of the AIB makers is definitely not a simple one. Seeing the precision involved makes me even more mad at Nvidia for treating their partners like dirt and saying they don't do anything for them.
If you knew about this stuff, It is just shitty switching regulators 50+ years old same old shit of a technology, and some basic IO and simple ITE controller chips, all the real interesting shit is in the GPU. Go and learn some stuff first before posting useless comments. You got overwhelmed by some stupid copper lanes.
Wow! Nice tour! Respect to Power Colour for allowing you to record everything from start to finish with no cuts, blurs or censorship of some parts!
As a consumer I really appreciate the transparency allowing the filming of this. We can see the quality assurance they provide. thank you!
Super impressed with PowerColor to do this, scoring points between the negative sentiment of other brands lately.
The reels feeding the pick & place are specifically ordered to reduce placement time. About 8 parts are sucked up at a time and photographed as they leave the reels any rotary or cartesian offset adjustment is made on the fly to the circuit board. The parts are puffed off the tools onto the boards. To speed up the assembly pipeline, four machines are utilized. One fourth of the parts being place by each machine. That speeds up the line...
I have Powercolor 7900XT. Now I know how the factory looks like. Thank you!
PowerColor have impressed me a lot by allowing this video of the production facilities. Most companies would not allow this to take place, very impressive. The employees also look proud of the place and seem eager to leave a nice impression. I'm in the market for a graphics card and PowerColor have just gone to the top spot for me. Thanks for making this video, have liked and subscribed.
This is super cool and reassuring too. Powercolor will be on top of my list when i shop for gpu next time.
Wow I am amazed how much quality control and care goes into their manufacturing. I am definitely considering PowerColor for my next build! Thanks for the tour!
How cool is this. That’s so awesome they let you in and film everything
For sure this is not a cherry picked interview and inspection that was heavily prepared and curated
What a crazy tour ! I'm surprised they run every card for over 1 hour.
I doubt about that.. new gen cards are power-hungry, those manufactures have electricity bills to pay
Probebly they run them like 10 minutes to see how they handle heat & as last QA test to pass
Any failure card will be spotted in first few minutes mostly
@@Jack_Sparrow131 they do run them an hour each, even more for some cards. They do not care about electricity costs for QA testing.
Source: Cousin worked for Galax factory in Taiwan as QA tester.
@randomasdfx7891 not sure about galax, but even more known brands do not test their GPUs for long time unless it was high end GPU or high cooling tier
@@Jack_Sparrow131 Oh yes sir they do. Only the very low end GPU's don't get that much quality control testing. Even with the big "known" companies they always pick sample cards from the batch and run them hard to test for batch integrity.
It will cost MORE money to recall a batch of 10,000 cards plus all the negative PR that goes with it than to run 10 cards for an hour.
There are certain standards in QA that AIB's are made to sign, and very strict quality control is part of the contract.
@@Jack_Sparrow131 The electricity is not as expensive there as in the EU and they will probably also use some solar power.
Now that EVGA cards are no more, seeing how open Power Colour have been in this tour, how proud they are and precise in their products manufacturing process is, my next GPU will be one of theirs....... great vid!
Hehe. Same here.
Had to buy a red devil after all this time. And it's BEAUTIFUL 🔥
Had a couple chats with their customer service (for photos and such) and yeah.. great company.
Thanks PowerColor for allowing this demonstration. Thanks to all your dedicated workers.
I think you meant slaves.
@@User_1795 Maybe. Probably poorly paid, compared to what we in the "developed world" would expect. But then we who want the cards cheaper and cheaper are partly responsible for that.
But I hope that they are well enough paid to make beautiful cards.
@@Navi_xoo Sad to hear that. But, then in a positive light, can you name any GPU makers who are known/proved to treat their workers in a good way. I am sure that I am not the only one who would be interested to know.
@@Navi_xoo That was/is my feeling too. And as I said originally, we the purchasers are, partly, responsible, as we demand lower and lower prices.
So it comes down to trying our best to find ethical suppliers, not complaining if the price is a bit higher, and ruthlessly avoiding companies that have crap customer service or are proven to exploit workers.
Its a tough job to keep all that in mind when you just want a decent GPU.
I used to work for a company that produced control modules for hybrid vehicles - and the manufacturing process of the electronics was surprisingly similar to the processes in the video.
Everything from the filmrolls with the thousands of capacitors, to the vacuum sealed PCBs, to the quality control - basically the same process lol
PowerColor have always been one of my favorite brands. My last three cards have been from them and they always exceed expectations at an affordable price. They're customer service are really good too. My brothers rx 560 was just a few weeks out of warranty when it failed and they still replaced it and even paid for the shipping. I currently have an rx 5700 xt red dragon and it's been a great card for the past 3-4 years.
I love how they let Roman film everything. They are that confident to let him film all the way to finish. The QUALITY. Im glad i bought this brand
Big props to PowerColor for allowing such access. And great job Roman, for taking this opportunity and bringing us this high quality content.
amazing thanks to PowerColor, all the staff and also der8auer for making this tour possible - very interesting and jaw dropping seeing so much expensive equipment in use.
A tip to deal with glass/light reflection, look into a polarized filter for your camera lens, by twisting it you should be able to filter out reflections on glass by quite a lot, and make filming into glass cases like this a lot easier.
Very cool to see this all though! awsome job
Learned something new today. Thanks!!!
Wow. Absolutely blown away, what a privilege. enormous respect to PowerColor for providing this, and to you for your respectful work!
With this type of access given to der8auer to allow me to see their process - It gives me much more confidence in adding this company to my list of companies I am willing to consider when buying my next graphics card. Looks like a quality manufacturing process.
Wow, this exact card being made is the one I was heavily considering on purchasing. I ended up going with a Sapphire card, which was considerably more expensive, but after watching this, it gives me more confidence (and little bit of buyers remorse too lol) that a PowerColor card will also get the job done.
Excellent video! Awesome of PowerColor just letting you record whatever you wanted, pretty much showing off their confidence.
Thank you, PowerColor. Excellent insight and very interesting to see it all mesh together. Props to you Roman, clearly the boffins at PowerColor like what you do.
PowerColor: "Don't blur anything, just try and copy our production line, you'll fail."
This is super cool. Just got a 7900xtx Red Devil back in February so it's nice to see how these things are made! Mad respect to PowerColor!
My next GPU will be from Powercolor. Really appreciate the hard work. It was really nice to get to see the manufacturing process.
Hats Off to Powercolor for allowing this.
Subscribed to the channel.
Wow that's absolutely nuts. I never expected the GPU's to be made in such a clean lab like environment. Appreciate Power Colour letting you in to show us.
freshly baked balls are nuts too.
Makes sense, if a piece of dust or hair lodged itself inbetween a PCB or IC or VRAM it would fry the pcb and become a fire risk, or a doa risk
I worked on a SMT production line like this ~20 years ago, we were placing ~500,000 components a week. Manual inspection of the solder paste and single head machines. You would listen to the pattern of machine picking and hear the change in rhythm when a error would occur.
awesome factory tour, really cool there's no blur over stuff
Honestly one of the best factory tours I've ever seen. Thanks to you and Powercolor for doing this!
Fantastic video! I was just mesmerized the whole time. Power Color...you're awesome! Thank you for allowing this.
Gotta support companies like this, have nothing to hide, will for sure be putting powercolor at the top of my short list when i buy my next card in the 5000 series, just wish i new about these guys when i bought my 4060ti :)
I am amazed how clean the manual paste station was, really awesome workers!
Thanks to you and Powercolor for doing this, it was really neat to see how much goes into that one component in my PC build. I have a PC 6950xt and it has been great for the price. I will continue to use their products.
Amazing company for letting them do this thanks power colour this was fantastic
Great explanations and filming. I'm surprised at how small a footprint the factory takes up. I can only imagine the logistics of installing new equipment in an active cleanroom!
Much thanks to Powercolor for allowing you to share such interesting info. It's such great marketing, looks like I'll go Powercolor for the next gen card!
Ya this is absolutely insane. The level of freedom they gave you for this tour cannot be overstated. I’ve been wanting to see a professional production line like this for a long long time and surprisingly here we are. Crazy.
Thank you so much for this! This is top notch content and the craziest part is that it’s free!
They have a very nice setup indeed! I love seeing how much attention to detail and care they take during manufacturing. The facility also looks very clean and safe to work in.
Insane transparency from Power Colour, massive respect 👊😎
I bought a brand new power color ex 7900xtx red devil . I went to plug in the 3 pin egg cord and both outlets broke with the slightest pressure. Spent 1100.00 for this card and haven’t even turned on the computer yet. This is my third series of red evil and I’m shocked at the quality of the rx7k series quality
Hellhounds have the best price/performance ratio for all XTX variants right now.
Great cards.
This was so cool! Powercolor's openness about it all was very educational.
Wow, what happened? The update frequency is so high in recent days.
Computex happened
Are you living in a rock lmao
@@Eleganttf2 😂😂
Terrible GPU lauches followed by Computex and Jensen Cringe
@@cybercat1531 Cool.
This is such a cool video! Shoutout to Powercolor for allowing you to go in there without being restricted. Mad respect. You did a really great job explaining everything through each step in the process. Really nice work all around.
It's crazy to thing in the span of a little over 100 years we go from horse and carriage to this. Alien technology.
Yeah it’s crazy we go from shoes factory to alien craft-like technology
Cave man to civilization is quite a story
I know. The complexity involved here. Going from the first radio to this.
Impressive but it pretty much come down to make everything smaller. Controlling electrons with various materials isn’t a new thing. 😊
@@anders.2259 I USED TO WORK IN SHOES FACTORY FOR $3 PER DAY. NOW THEY PAID ME LIKE $10 PER DAY. VERY IMPRESSIVE INDEED.
This is very cool. Nice job Roman. Thanks PowerColor for letting us see under the hood!
U better have AT LEAST a billion USD if ya wanna start a new graphic card company. That's why they're so few of them when you think about it. It's not fab expensive but it's right up there.
Plus the margins aren’t exactly great. So you better have proper operations to keep that 1 billion USD CapEx worth of equipment up and running and avoiding down time to pump out enough volume so they can sell enough cards to recoup their investments. Plus they are at the mercy of AMD. They don’t get to decide when to launch a new product, they have to be ready whenever AMD says we are launching this card on x date.
The best tour of making a graphics card, other tours are blurred out or skip processes. RAW and unedited, awesome :)
This was awesome! I always wonder how much detail goes into manufacturing micro electronics, and this video was like a playground in my eyes :D Danke Roman, Danke Powercolor!
Good stuff. Respect to PowerColor for allowing you to do this. I got the PowerColor 6700 XT from so it was good to see the process.
this honestly makes me so happy seeing this process! thanks PowerColor for allowing this tour for us future customers of your product. such super clean and professional work place for the workers is a plus. future customer right here :)
From what I've seen, I would definitely consider this brand for any future GPU purchase. Great content!
Asus and MSI needs to show their factory too. This was really interesting to watch. Thank you!
SUPER impressive, well worth watching. The assembly to the boxing, I had no idea there were so many steps.
Thank you powercolor for allowing this to happen, so educational and interesting.
Thanks Roman and Thanks Powercolor for this VERY informational video. Appreciate your expertise.
Wow, I am really positively suprised that they give you permission for be there and film everything with details. I like it very much, as I know, the manufacturers often are keeping most of processes in secret. If PowerColor produce their cards like it is presented in your video then... Respect!
This is my favorite RUclips video in a long time, I have always been a fan of 'how it's made' and this is something I never thought I would see in that style format. Good job, thank you!
WOW! Full respect to PowerColor for allowing this 👌 What made this even better is that Der8auer knew what was happening at almost every step and could describe it to us. That made a HUGE difference in understanding the process. Anyway, next time I need a graphics card, I will definitely look at PowerColor first.
That was amazing to watch Thanks Roman, and a big Thank You to Powercolor for allowing this!
Person who allowed you to see and record whole manufacturing processes knows that you will appreciate this more then any other youtuber.
Great video and thank you power colour for allowing this to happen.Watching the machines put the chips on was impressive.
That was pretty dope, a much leaner operation than what I would have expected
Always appreciate the factory tour reports. Thank you. mb