14 DAY TRIAL // A little more than a week after AMD officially introduced its Radeon HD 7800 series GPUs, Gigabyte unveiled two new graphics cards based on the Radeon HD 7870 and HD 7850 designs that come factory overclocked in order to boost their gaming performance.
The more powerful of the two solutions announced today is dubbed the GV-R787OC-2GD and, as its name suggests, this is based on the faster AMD Radeon HD 7870 design.
Much like other high-end Gigabyte creations, the GV-R787OC-2GD also sports the company’s proprietary WindForce 3x cooling system, which relies on three 100mm anti-turbulence inclined fans to dissipate heat produced by the card.
The advanced cooling system is also accompanied by a special Ultra Durable PCB that utilizes only high-end components in order to improve the reliability and overclocking potential of the card.
According to Gigabyte, this design has the benefit of making the card virtually silent even at full load as it generates just 31dB despite being overclocked to 1,100MHz.
The second video card to be announced by Gigabyte today is the GV-R785OC-2GD, which is built around AMD’s Pitcairn Pro graphics core.
Compared to its older sibling, this card uses a much simpler cooling solution dubbed the WindForce 2x by Gigabyte. Despite this change, the installed GPU is also coming factory overclocked to work at 975MHz.
Both cards include a 256-bit memory bus that is connected to 2GB of GDDR5 video buffer working at 1.2GHz (4,800MHz data rate).
As far as pricing goes, Gigabyte has chosen to respect AMD’s MSRP for the Radeon HD 7870 and HD 7850, meaning that the two solutions cost $349 and $249 (265 and 190 EUR), respectively.
Both AMD Radeon HD 7800-series graphics cards have been made official by AMD the last week and are based on the company’s new Graphics Core Next (GSCN) architecture, which made its debut in the Radeon HD 7970.
