Parameters of the new graphics card cooler, Raijintek Morpheus 8069
You’ve known for some time that Raijintek has been working on a new Morpheus (8069) graphics card cooler. Last year’s images of its design were already pretty much final, but we’re only now learning a lot of the essential things that were still a question mark. After Raijintek released the Morpheus 8069 cooler and published all the basic specs for it. This also removes the confusion around how the memory will be cooled.
Standalone coolers for graphics cards are indeed a rarity now. But the fewer they are, the more chances that the brave people who make them will sell theirs. Raijinek hopes for some Morpheus 8069 sales, too. This cooler continues the well-established series (Morpheus) with the added benefit of being optimized for today’s graphics card needs.
The more than half-kilogram heatsink (the weight is listed at 595 grams) has twelve heatpipes that dissipate heat into 129 fins. The surface of the cooler is nickel-plated, with a black finish. The TDP, or thermal performance, that the Morpheus 8069 is designed for is supposed to be 400 watts. However, to be able to cool graphics cards approaching such power draw (for example, the GeForce RTX 3090), fans need to be installed on the heatsink. These are not included, so you have a free hand in the choice, which most people interested in a third-party cooler will welcome. After all, such actions (GPU cooler replacement) are mainly embarked upon by enthusiasts who have very high demands on the cooler, with clear ideas of how the cooler should sound, what temperatures it needs to maintain, and so on.
The design of the Morpheus 8069 is built for two 120 mm fans with a thickness of 25 mm. This is an advantage over coolers on non-reference cards with significantly slimmer fans. One bright exception is the Asus GeForce Noctua Edition graphics cards, whose coolers are cooled by high-end fans with a full-thickness profile, but you still won’t buy Radeon graphics cards in that configuration. Those are supported by the Morpheus 8069, but for now it’s the older RX 6700 (XT), RX 6800 (XT), and RX 6900 (XT) models that are officially supported. RDNA 3 Radeons are unsupported, but it’s possible that will change.
This is because Raijintek hasn’t had much time to test the cooler with the new generation of AMD graphics cards yet. The same goes for Nvidia, GeForce RTX 4000s are missing from the list of supported cards, but the RTX 3080 (Ti) and 3090 (Ti) do indeed fit this Raijintek cooler. However, it is unclear from the manufacturer’s available materials whether the support applies to all cards with the listed GPUs or only those that have a component layout according to the reference PCB.
What is already clear though (and wasn’t last time because there were conflicting cooler renders) is that the coldplate of the heatsink is not only in contact with the GPU, but also with the memory. However, a set of small copper or aluminium heatsinks is supplied for cooling the voltage regulators of the power delivery. There are five copper ones, four aluminium ones.
With the Morpheus 8069 installed, the graphics card is approximately 70mm in height, so it is across three slots. In length, the cooler is “only” 254mm, but overall the graphics card will always have more as it is set back a bit from the PCI Express slot cover. The depth, i.e. the dimension from the slot to the side panel, is 110 mm, but together with the fans it will be 120 mm and it’s better to have some headroom.
In some stores the cooler is already in stock (at a price of around 170 EUR), although the availability is worse at the start.
English translation and edit by Jozef Dudáš