14 DAY TRIAL // After in May of this year, HIS announced its 6970 IceQ Turbo and Standard IceQ graphics cards, the company has now built upon these designs and came up with the HIS 6970 IceQ Mix, that can be paired together with both AMD and Nvidia graphics solution to form various dual-GPU configurations.
In order to achieve this feat, the HIS 6970 IceQ Mix uses the Hydralogix technology developed by Lucid, which is also enabled in some motherboards developed by Asus and MSI.
In addition to its capability to mix-and-match graphics cards, the HIS 6970 IceQ Mix also sports a special Eyefinity implementation.
Compared with other AMD graphics cards that support this technology, the IceQ Mix allows its users to configure an Eyefinity setup using any of the connectors available on the board, no matter if they are DVI, HDMI or DisplayPort.
Outside of these special features, the Mix is identical with the two other Radeon HD 6970 IceQ graphics cards previously launched by the company.
This means that HIS' latest creation relies on the same cooler design that pairs together four copper heatpipes with a large aluminum fin array and with a turbine fan for delivering temperatures up to 23°C lower than those of AMD's reference cards.
The operating clocks of the HIS 6970 IceQ Mix were kept to AMD's stock settings, so the core operates at 880MHz, while the memory is working at 1.375GHz (5.5GHz effective).
HIS hasn't released any information regarding the price, or the release date of the, 6970 IceQ Mix.
We do, however, know the graphics card will be bundled together with the DiRT 3 game as well as with a DisplayPort-to-DisplayPort cable, an HDMI-to-DVI cable, an HDMI Cable and a DVI-to-VGA adapter.
The Radeon HD 6970 is based on the Cayman XT core and it features 1536 stream processors, 96 texture units, 32 ROP units as well as a 256-bit wide memory bus that is connected to a 2GB video buffer.