Tuesday, December 9th 2008
Gigabyte Unveils Radeon HD 4870 1GB Equipped with DisplayPort
Gigabyte today, has released a new graphics card based on the ATI Radeon HD 4870 graphics processor (GPU), in a non-reference design. While sporting a thin and light appearance, the card retains high-grade electrical components such as digital PWM circuitry the reference PCB sports. The prominent features of the card include a DisplayPort connector alongside an HDMI port, both on the PCB. The card features 1 GB of GDDR5 memory made by Qimonda, across a 256-bit wide bus.
Being non-reference and Gigabyte, it's expected to have a blue coloured PCB. The GPU is cooled by a Zalman VF830 cooler, which features on several of today's graphics cards by Gigabyte. The memory is left to be cooled under its air-flow. The VRM area gets a heatsink of its own. The card is powered by two 6-pin PCI-Express power connectors. It uses reference clock speeds of 750 MHz for the GPU and 900 MHz (effective 3600 MT/s) for the memory. It is yet to be priced.
Source:
Hexus.net
Being non-reference and Gigabyte, it's expected to have a blue coloured PCB. The GPU is cooled by a Zalman VF830 cooler, which features on several of today's graphics cards by Gigabyte. The memory is left to be cooled under its air-flow. The VRM area gets a heatsink of its own. The card is powered by two 6-pin PCI-Express power connectors. It uses reference clock speeds of 750 MHz for the GPU and 900 MHz (effective 3600 MT/s) for the memory. It is yet to be priced.
22 Comments on Gigabyte Unveils Radeon HD 4870 1GB Equipped with DisplayPort
That cooler looks kinda funky - why is the power cord reaching across the whole card?
I'm sure this will be a kick ass card, like all of the Gigabyte cards I've owned. After the few review samples I've gotten from Gigabyte, they're definitely my first choice when buying a new graphics card these days :)
And I'm guessing Gigabyte's GamerHud will let us crank the voltage on this card with a simple mouse click :D
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With an Accelero S1 and the Turbo Module installed, it should be very cool, quiet and overclockable.
I really hope it has Gamer HUD too for voltage adjustments via software.
/Edit/ From what I can see the power circuitry is the same, and the only difference between this and the reference PCB are some extra bits by the Display Port. This card also only has Gamer HUD Lite, so it may not be the massive overclocker worth waiting for:
Gigabyte model link