14 DAY TRIAL // AMD's dual-GPU HD 6990 video controller may have been released not long ago, but it seems it isn't the only graphics card getting attention, as shown clearly by the most recent product revealed by Gigabyte.
One might say that the graphics adapter market is one that has been supplied by a steady stream of new products even during this quarter of relative product launch slowdown.
Both NVIDIA and Advanced Micro Devices are constantly trying to show each other off on every segment of the consumer base.
Recently, the fight was taken to the top-most tier, that of enthusiasts, with AMD's unveiling of the Radeon HD 6990.
Still, even with how the Sunnyvale, California-based company's partners eagerly unleashed their own versions, the board didn't completely swallow up all attention.
Gigabyte created a new iteration not of the dual-chip board, but of the high-end Radeon HD 6970, which is the second incarnation of this board to leave its labs.
Like all HD 6000 and 5000 products, it has full support for the DirectX 11 graphics technology.
It has the GPU (graphics processing unit) operating at a frequency of 900 MHz, which is 20 MHz more than the stock 880 MHz setting.
The amount of GDDR5 VRAM is 2 GB, its own clock speed being of 5,500 MHz. Also, the interface it works on is of 256 bits.
All in all, it is a factory-overclocked card equipped with the WindForce 3X cooler, a triple-fan (PWM) solution with a vapor chamber and three copper heatpipes.
Other specs include 96 texture units, 1,536 Stream Processors and multiple display connectors, four to be exact, them being DisplayPort, HDMI and two DVI.
Described in detail here, the newcomer should start selling soon, though no price was given. Either way, when it does ship, the product bundle will include a 1.8m HDMI cable.