Monday, April 4th 2011
XFX Radeon HD 6790 Pictured, Too
XFX is ready with its Radeon HD 6790, too. The XFX HD679XZDFC is a completely in-house designed HD 6790 implementation by XFX, including a custom PCB and cooler, which can also be found on its HD 6800 series models. Essentially, HD 6790's electricals on this particular board match those of the HD 6870. The PCB uses a 4+2 phase VRM for the Barts LE GPU, which packs 800 stream processors and 256-bit GDDR5 memory interface holding 1 GB of memory; power is drawn from two 6-pin power connectors.
Moving on to the cooler, it uses a large aluminum fin array to which heat is fed by three copper heat pipes that make direct contact with the GPU. It is ventilated by two 80 mm fans. Display outputs resemble those of the HD 6870, more than those of the HD 6850; there are two each of DVI and mini-DisplayPort 1.2, and one full-size HDMI 1.4a. The card can pair with another (probably any Barts-based card) for 2-way CrossFire. Expect it to be out on Thursday.
Source:
Zol.com.cn
Moving on to the cooler, it uses a large aluminum fin array to which heat is fed by three copper heat pipes that make direct contact with the GPU. It is ventilated by two 80 mm fans. Display outputs resemble those of the HD 6870, more than those of the HD 6850; there are two each of DVI and mini-DisplayPort 1.2, and one full-size HDMI 1.4a. The card can pair with another (probably any Barts-based card) for 2-way CrossFire. Expect it to be out on Thursday.
14 Comments on XFX Radeon HD 6790 Pictured, Too
One is too,
So i guess the next one will be "listed too".
Another HUGE ass cooler on a card that could be a single slot solution :confused:
FAIL!
dual slot card became common nowadays and most of support-crossfire/sli motherboards can put these two things with no problem.
so which FAIL did you mentions?
6990
6970
6950
6870
6850
6790
Now thats number 6 down from their highest end card not including the 5xxx series their still packing in between them.
You mean to tell me they cant do a single slot solution on a med level card that has a single power connector.Dont tell me they dont make one because Colorfire makes it.
People need to stop accepting how hot these newer gpu's are running.
How is it the die size gets smaller and they continue to get hotter and hotter every new series they make.
I call bull shit on both AMD and Nvidia :shadedshu
wizz had said, with 6790 on references you got 83 C on load and 42 dB noise, i consider it still higher for such med - high end card. and i couldnt imagine if this made for single slot solution, it would be more hotter and generate much more noise because the fan are getting smaller and still blow hot air back into the case..
for single slot, maybe turks, bart xt, and barts pro had a chance for it.