14 DAY TRIAL // Over the years, Gigabyte has accustomed us with its non-reference graphics cards and the company's recent Radeon HD 6670 based solution is no exception to this rule as it comes with a beefier cooling solution and a slightly overclocked GPU.
The card is officially named the GV-R667OC-1GI and Gigabyte states that it improves the AMD reference design to deliver better cooling, higher overclocking headroom and a longer lifespan.
This is comprised out of an aluminum heatsink, that covers the Turks GPU used for the Radeon HD 6670, and a 100mm diameter fan, specially designed to increase the airflow provided to the card without raising the noise generated while running.
In addition, some of the resulting airflow is pushed towards the card's PCB and should also reach its VRMs and memory chips.
Speaking of memory, Gigabyte has decided to pair the GV-R667OC-1GI with 1GB of DDR3 video buffer, which operates at 900MHZ (1800MHz data rate). The GPU is run at 820MHz, 20MHz higher than AMD's reference clock.
In spite of the increased core speed, the graphics card is expected to be slower that other Radeon HD 6670 solutions that pack GDDR5 memory chips.
Going to the back of Gigabyte's creation, we get to see that the Taiwanese company has decided to go with the standard video output arrangement, which is comprised out of a DVI, a D-Sub, and a gold-plated HDMI port.
The Gigabyte GV-R667OC-1GI is available right now for purchase and its price has been set at $89.95 US.
The Radeon HD 6670 is AMD's latest mainstream card and is based on the Turks core which packs 480 streaming units, 24 texturing units, 8 ROP units and a 128-bit memory bus. The load TDP is estimated at 66W and the card draws all its power from the PCI Express slot.