14 DAY TRIAL // Advanced Micro Devices only a short time ago made the official introduction of its Radeon HD 6700 graphics cards and, naturally, its partners presented their own models, like, in this case, Club 3D.
While it might seem as though Advanced Micro Devices was able to develop a new graphics processing unit for the lower half of the mainstreams segment, that is not exactly what happened.
AMD actually rebranded the HD 5700 series, those powered by the Juniper GPUs, in order to integrate them into its current lineup.
The company's partners are already unveiling their respective custom versions, and it looks like Club 3D modified more than just the name and stickers.
In fact, the company seems to have been quite adamant in its drive to eliminate any and all sound from the card's operation, bringing about some extra power efficiency in the process.
More specifically, Club 3D took one big, dual-slot passive cooler with four copper heatpipes and stuck it to the Radeon HD 6750.
Graphics card coolers usually take up two slots because the heatsink alone is not capable of dispersing heat, so a fan or two, or three, have to be put on top.
In this case, however, the heatsink alone takes up two PCI slots, since Club 3D had to compensate for the lack of airflow with more heat dissipation area.
Either way, the fact is that the product will run on a lower power than its other incarnations and will also not affect immersion when gaming or watching movies.
The newcomer is dubbed Radeon HD 6750 CoolStream Edition and has a GPU clock speed of 700 MHz, plus the 1 GB of GDDR5 VRAm working at 4,600 MHz.
Other specifications include a memory interface of 128 bits, the obvious support for DirectX 11, CrossFireX, multiple outputs (HDMI, dual-DVI, DisplayPort) and 720 Stream Processors. No price details were mentioned.