Thursday, May 27th 2010
PowerColor Getting Innovative This Computex
While AMD has no new GPU product launches slated for this year's Computex event, its partners are letting their imagination go places. PowerColor is doing just that, with as many as five new products and technologies. To begin with, the company is working on the PowerColor HD 5770 Sniper Edition. This graphics card packs a Bigfoot Killer NIC on-board, so graphics and network processing is packaged into a single addon card. From what we can tell, the card is designed using a PCI-Express bridge which is connected to the PCI-Express x16 interface, which gives the Radeon HD 5770 GPU an x16 link and the Killer SoC an x1 link. The Killer network processor has its own dedicated memory and ROM, with which the SoC can offload network processing from Windows, in a bid to reduce latencies, even if improving performance is inconsequential with today's systems with powerful processors.
Next up, is the PowerColor HD 5770 Evolution. Again, another novelty graphics card based on the Radeon HD 5770. This one packs a Lucid Hydra Engine chip on-board, which allows it work in tandem with any other graphics card, ATI or NVIDIA, with 2-way or 3-way multi-GPU support. Third card is probably what will interest a lot more buyers, PowerColor HD 5770 Single Slot Edition. As the name suggests, the card will occupy only one expansion slot. The next card is an even more practical product in the making, a series of low-profile Radeon HD 5770 and HD 5750 cards. Lastly, PowerColor will demonstrate what it calls the Vortex Cooling technology, a unique video card cooler which allows users to adjust the fan's height from the heatsink, and vector its air-flow. Not wanting to reveal too much, PowerColor left us with tiny images, some of which are outlines of the actual images.
Next up, is the PowerColor HD 5770 Evolution. Again, another novelty graphics card based on the Radeon HD 5770. This one packs a Lucid Hydra Engine chip on-board, which allows it work in tandem with any other graphics card, ATI or NVIDIA, with 2-way or 3-way multi-GPU support. Third card is probably what will interest a lot more buyers, PowerColor HD 5770 Single Slot Edition. As the name suggests, the card will occupy only one expansion slot. The next card is an even more practical product in the making, a series of low-profile Radeon HD 5770 and HD 5750 cards. Lastly, PowerColor will demonstrate what it calls the Vortex Cooling technology, a unique video card cooler which allows users to adjust the fan's height from the heatsink, and vector its air-flow. Not wanting to reveal too much, PowerColor left us with tiny images, some of which are outlines of the actual images.
24 Comments on PowerColor Getting Innovative This Computex
I don't think the NIC integrated is needed, but the other ideas are excellent.
No reason to make an 5770 X2.
Allright. where are we heading?
GPU, Displayport and HDMI.
Ethernet, USB, Video and Audio. the two last is supported by ALL ati cards made since HD2000.
Cpu: Chipset(NB, IMC, IGP) and sb later ?
really, no need for a sound card nowdays if you have a reciver, really!
Bitstream sound and 192khz 24bit works, and yeah.
I remember the days when we had:
ISDN card.
Ethernet card.
Usb card.
PS2 card.
Soundcard.
Printer card.
Videocard.
Very welcome feature powercolor, ahead of the time, market is far from ready, but innovation is really nice :toast:
and Killernics are fast, i can tell you that, so :D
Nice to see some companies stepping up to the plate and bringing something truly different to the table rather than just the same old thing. :rockout:Actually, a single-slot card would be a good option for those running a SFF box like a Shuttle where there is'nt enough room to fit a double-wide card but still has intake vents on the side for proper cooling. Really not sure where the rest of your thoughts are coming from 'tho since single-slot SLI and Crossfire configurations have been around for awhile all the Lucid chip does is allow someone to run a mixed configuration. Unless I'm missing something in your post? :confused:That would be SO yummy!
I dearly miss the AIW series and always felt that when they started to go away from the full-power card concept on the x1800 to the low-end crap chips that it lost that magic. Consider too that they could even add Eyefinity to it and allow 3 HDTV's running at either 1280x768 or 1920x1080 for your own ultimate HD system having a movie playing at an uber resolution. :rockout:
Just getting frustrated, have been trying to buy one 5850 for a month now, like for ~$315. Hence I'd take 5770x2 for $300 instantly :)
The gains with 5870 are numerous, like lower idle power consumtion, and load.
only 1x pci-e
No CF scaling penalty in certant games.
Cons:
not 6 display outputs.
Varies from usa and europe, and ati/nvidia price diffrences are massive in some countries in europe, where nvidia is overpriced!
Even if the end result is a flop, innovation is something we don't see enough in the GPU industry, and for that reason I hope Powercolor succeeds.
I wan't a All in Wonder HD badly :-) ( an 5xxxX2 AIW would be dream just for fun)
other things i love the low profile ati gpu's they just rock in htpc's go powercolour, go!
Now here's an idea: Hydra chip on a standalone PCIe card. Anyone to pick up that glove ? Essentially allowing anyone with three, or more, PCIe slots to use any two GPUs in a multi-GPU configuration.
while other race to be a fastest cards,this time TUL corp decide it was time to make something others wouldn't think about
ultra-hyper-super-overclocked cards? about every company made it.
a vga cards with NIC on board? never heard before
a vga cards with lucid hydra chip onboard?last time I checked, only few motherboard company made it, but NOT a vga maker