Kestrel · Flagship graphics

Bend the
light.

AURORA X9 is the fastest card we have ever built. 24,576 cores, 32 GB of GDDR8X and a cooler that barely whispers.

Backplate

One block.
Zero flex.

A CNC-machined aluminium backplate with a vented cut-out that exposes five copper heat pipes, and a laser-etched light guide.

6063 aluminium5 heat pipesAurora glow
Fans at full song
900RPM

Nine-blade, counter-rotating axial fans. Silent below 55 °C.

3 × 92 mm0 dB idle
Scroll to spin it up

01 — Silicon

Numbers that
don't blink.

Helios cores
0

Our densest shader array ever. 1.9× the parallel throughput of the previous generation, fed by a rebuilt cache hierarchy.

Boost clock
0GHz

Sustained, not sprinted. A vapor-chamber cooler keeps the clocks pinned through marathon sessions.

Memory
0GB

GDDR8X on a 512-bit bus. Textures land before you finish blinking, even at 8K.

0GB/s bandwidth
0Lumen RT cores
0 WBoard power
0AI TOPS

02 — Performance

Twice the frames.
Half the doubt.

+0%average uplift over Kestrel R8 in this benchmark run
AURORA X9 0 fps
Kestrel R8 0 fps

03 — Ray tracing

See every
photon.

Drag the divider. On the left, rasterised lighting. On the right, Lumen path-traced reflections, colour bleed and soft shadows, all in real time.

RT OFFRT ON
  • Path-traced global illumination
  • Mirror-grade reflections
  • Neural denoiser

04 — Thermals

Cold in.
Hot out.

Cool intakeHeated exhaust

Three counter-rotating fans pull cool air through a 3.5-slot vapor chamber and 100 stacked fins, then push it out sideways, away from your CPU.

62°CLoad temperature
24 dBAcoustic level
1,100Fan RPM
100Aluminium fins

05 — Everything else

Built like
a flagship.

Prism neural upscaling

A 2,410 TOPS AI engine that reconstructs 4K from 1080p with frame generation that keeps latency under 12 ms.

Lumen RT cores

Fourth-generation ray engines with opacity micromaps.

Vapor chamber

Full-coverage copper chamber with five nickel heat pipes.

DisplayPort 2.1

Three DP 2.1 and one HDMI 2.1b. Up to 16K at 60 Hz.

12V-2x6 power

One sensing connector with per-pin current telemetry.

Aurora Sync lighting

An addressable light bar, fan halos and backplate glow. Sync with your rig or turn it all off.

Dual BIOS, one switch

Flip between Silent (350 W) and Performance (450 W) profiles without touching software.

Five-year warranty

Every X9 ships with a five-year warranty and a 30-day no-questions return window.

06 — Pre-order

Choose your
edition.

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Your editionVanguard — $1,399