Sapphire FleX Series of Graphics Cards Gets AMD Radeon HD 6950

It appears that Galaxy is not the only company preparing a custom version of a still unannounced video card, as Sapphire also has such plans, albeit with AMD hardware instead of technology from NVIDIA.

While the consumer base is waiting to see just what NVIDIA's dual-GPU GTX 590 card will be like, other adapters are rearing their heads.

One of them is the Santa Clara, California-based company's own GeForce GTX 550 Ti, which is being customized by Galaxy.

Now, Sapphire seems to want to make sure there is strong enough opposition to that particular mainstream card.

As such, it is working on a new iteration of the AMD Radeon HD 6950 board, powered by the now well-known Cayman GPU (graphics processing unit).

Regrettably, there is, at the moment, no exact information on the performance, except for the fact that 2 GB of GDDR5 VRAM are present.

In other words, there is no way of knowing what clock frequencies the company settled on, though other things are, thankfully, made more or less clear.

The main feature is that Radeon HD 6950 FleX support 4-monitor Eyefinity technology, although one of said four panels will need DisplayPort or HDMI connectivity.

Fortunately, the other three can make do with DVI inputs, meaning that, provided one has a reasonable financial backing, it won't be overly difficult to set up a nice multi-panel installation.

Either way, the model is known to be built with 1,408 Stream processors, plus two PCIe power connectors, one 6-pin and one 8-pin to be exact.

It shouldn't take that long for online stores to begin listing the video card, at which point all remaining details, including the price, will finally become known.

In the meantime, users can speculate about how the showdown between it and the GTX 550 Ti, as well as the face-off between the two dual-GPU cards, will go.