Friday, February 26th 2010
HIS Readies Radeon HD 5870 iCooler V Graphics Cards
A day after releasing the HD 5830 iCooler V series, HIS implemented the same design on the Radeon HD 5870 series. The company is out with HD 5870 iCooler V series graphics card with and without the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 bundle (the only thing that differentiates the model with this bundle, and the base-model). Factory-overclocked variants of these two are designated with a "Turbo" suffix in the model name. The HIS HD 5870 iCooler V uses a custom-designed cooler that's improved from the iCooler IV HIS used on some graphics cards of the previous generation Radeon HD 4890. The cooler makes use of an aluminum fin array cooled by a large centrally-located fan.
While the non-Turbo variants use reference AMD clock speeds of 850 MHz core and 1200 MHz memory, the Turbo models up that to 875 MHz and 1225 MHz, respectively. The cards feature 1 GB of GDDR5 memory, and display connectivity identical to AMD's reference design: two DVI-D, and one each of HDMI and DisplayPort. The pricing and availability aren't known. This goes on to show that with flexibility in design, AMD's AIB partners can come up with common designs to implement across the board with all Radeon HD 5800 series SKUs.
Source:
TechConnect Magazine
While the non-Turbo variants use reference AMD clock speeds of 850 MHz core and 1200 MHz memory, the Turbo models up that to 875 MHz and 1225 MHz, respectively. The cards feature 1 GB of GDDR5 memory, and display connectivity identical to AMD's reference design: two DVI-D, and one each of HDMI and DisplayPort. The pricing and availability aren't known. This goes on to show that with flexibility in design, AMD's AIB partners can come up with common designs to implement across the board with all Radeon HD 5800 series SKUs.
14 Comments on HIS Readies Radeon HD 5870 iCooler V Graphics Cards
The MSI Lightning is pretty interesting. Just hope they manage to keep the price reasonable. Don't think that card is for me though.
Is the iCooler usually better than the stock heatsink. I hope this one is atleast quieter.
I mean, my 9800 GX2 ships with 600 core/1000 mem and there are factory-overclocked versions available at 700/1050... that's a 17% increase on the core and 5% on the memory, compared to 3% / 2% for this card.
Vapour-X FTW!
Amongst other things This card probably has potential than you think. Also this cooler looks like the one XFX is using
I personally think the IceQ is better because it vents straight out of the case.:nutkick:
Hoping the buy an IceQ 5890!:rockout: