14 DAY TRIAL // PowerColor has started to develop a new single slot graphics card based on the Radeon HD 6850 design which is compatible with 4-way CrossFireX configurations and uses a custom-printed circuit board (PCB) as well as an in-house developed cooling solution.
The redesigned PCB is just slightly longer than that of the reference HD 6850 and it uses a single slot cooler which is covered by a long, black plastic shroud with PowerColor's logo on it.
The cooling system is comprised out of a large aluminum heatsink with tightly-packed fins and the heat is drawn from the core via a copper plate.
Air is flown through the aluminum channels by a large diameter blower type fan which sits at the back of the graphics card.
While PowerColor hasn't provided us with any pictures depicting the base of the cooling assembly, it is pretty safe to assume that the card sports some kind of VRM and memory chip cooling.
Apart from 4-way CrossFireX compatibility, the PowerColor HD 6850 Single-Slot Edition also comes with an almost full set of display connectors, which includes a dual-link DVI port, a full-size HDMI 1.4a port and a pair of mini-DisplayPort 1.2 video outputs.
The HD 6850 Single Slot Edition uses AMD's reference clocks, which means that the GPU runs at 775MHz while the memory frequency is set at 1000 MHz (4.00GHz data rate), and is powered by a single PCI Express 6-pin plug.
PowerColor didn't provide us with any details regarding the pricing or availability of the graphics card.
The Radeon HD 6850 is based on the Barts Pro core and it packs 960 stream processors, 48 texturing units, 32 ROP units and the GPU is linked to the 1GB of video buffer via a 256-bit wide memory interface.
Its TDP is rated at just 19W, when the card sits in idle mode, but can reach up to 127W when fully loaded. (via DonanimHaber)
