14 DAY TRIAL // That KFA2, Galaxy's European premium brand, has developed a new graphics card is not exactly surprising, but what may take people by surprise is that it does not use cables to transmit its video feed.
What almost all video controllers have in common is that, regardless of how strong or weak they are, they always use one of the existing connectivity interfaces to communicate with displays.
As such, hearing of a board that does not use a VGA, DVI, DisplayPort, HDMi or other sort of cable does not happen often.
Nevertheless, while rare, such video cards do exist, as it is made more than clear by KFA2, whose most recent press release detailed the GTX 460 WHDI.
Like all of the other NVIDIA GF104-based models on the market, it boasts 336 CUDA cores and a memory interface of 256 bits.
The amount of memory is 1 GB, while the clock frequencies are of 675 MHz for the GPU itself, 1,800 MHz for the memory (3,600 MHz) and 1,350 for the shaders.
Basically, the card has a memory bandwidth of 115.2 GB/s and a texture fill rate of 37.8 billion per second.
That said, the board can handle most any game and multimedia file in Full HD resolution (1.080p), making the wireless connectivity all the more useful.
By means of the WHDI (Wireless Home Digital Interface) standard, uncompressed 1,080p 60Hz video can be delivered to any HDTV or other sort of display, regardless of positioning around a house.
The press announcement goes as far as to say it provides consumers with "the most robust and highest quality HD wireless connection for in-room and multi-room applications."
Not only that, but the implementation of HDCP revision 2.0 lets any PC content be viewed on a TV, even Blu-ray movies or DRM-protected media.
Finally, to top it all off, the maximum range of WHDI is a not at all modest 30 meters (100 feet).
Online stores and retailers in Europe should soon start listing/selling the KFA2 GeForce GTX 460 WHDI soon, backed by a 2-year warranty.