14 DAY TRIAL // Like more or less all of its peers, PowerColor, or TUL Corporation as the Taiwanese company is otherwise known, has released some Radeon HD 7800 Series graphics cards.
Unlike HIS, PowerColor did play around with the clock frequencies a little bit, even if only on one of three video cards.
For those unsure of what that means, HIS has also launched three HD 7800 boards, equipped with IceQ cooler or even a new IceQ iTurbo fansink, but chose not to change the GPU or memory clocks at all for some reason.
PowerColor also has three boards ready, one of which, the PowerColor PCS+ HD7870 GHz Edition, takes the graphics processor from 1 GHz to 1.1 GHz (1100 MHz).
Meanwhile, the 2 GB of GDDR5 memory also step things up, from 4.8 GHz to 4.9 GHz.
The rest of the specs are unchanged: a memory interface of 256 bits, Eyefinity support, DirectX 11.1, CrossFireX, DVI and HDMI and dual mini DisplayPort.
The other two video boards are the PowerColor HD7850 and the PowerColor HD7870 GHz edition.
As we wrote when covering AMD's announcement, the former operates at 860 MHz (for the graphics chips) and 4.8 GHz for the VRAM. The other one, as its name makes it quite clear, held the GPU at 1 GHz.
The connectivity options and everything else are identical to that of the PCS+ card.
The official press release did not say what each of the models would cost when they finally went up for sale on March 19 (2012).
The base AMD Radeon HD 7850 carries a price of $249 / 188.72 Euro, while the 7870 is tagged with $349 / 264.51 Euro, but this won't necessarily hold true for PowerColor.
At the very least, the PowerColor PCS+ HD7870 GHz Edition will have prospective buyers pay a little extra.
