14 DAY TRIAL // Large computer fares, such as Computex, are a great opportunity for companies to showcase all sort of prototype hardware and one of the most intriguing devices to make its appearance this year in Taipei is an AMD graphics card labeled as the Radeon HD E6760.
The card was spotted by the SemiAccurate publications and looks like some sort of development board or an embedded solution as it features a rather unusual PCB layout.
As it can be easily seen from the picture provided, the E6760 packs no less than six display outputs, three DVI and three HDMI.
However, only two of these ports are placed on the rear I/O bracket, while the remaining four were installed on the top edge of the card.
To the right of these, the card sports two CrossFireX connectors (a feature that isn't specific to Radeon HD 6700-series cards) as well as a pair of PCIe power connectors, one featuring six pins while the other is an 8-pin.
Together with the power provided via the PCI slot, these can provide up to 300W to the card, but where all this power goes remains a mystery, since the cooler installed on the GPU surely isn't able to dissipate anything close to that.
In fact, this looks a lot more like the cooling systems that we see installed on 75W graphics cards. The length of the PCB is also unusual considering the low power of the GPU.
One possible explanation for this card is that it could be a custom implementation of the E6760 discrete GPU that AMD announced a while back.
This features 480 shader processors, a 128-bit memory interface with 1 GB GDDR5 and was specially designed for embedded applications such as casino gaming, digital signage and medical imaging systems.