Gigabyte Rolls Out HD 6870 SuperOverclock UDV+ Graphics Card

[btarunr]

Gigabyte introduced its fastest graphics card based on the AMD Radeon HD 6870 GPU, bearing the SuperOverclock (SOC) badge. SOC graphics cards make use of top quality components and a copper-rich PCB as prescribed by the company's own Ultra Durable VGA+ specifications, and use high-end cooling. The GV-R687SO-1GD, as it's formally known, carries clock speeds of 950/1150 (core/memory), against reference speeds of 900/1050 MHz. The card uses a 10-inch long PCB that uses a stronger VRM to leave room for some overclocking. The GPU itself is hand-picked by performance binning.

The card is cooled by Gigabyte's WindForce 3X GPU cooler, which makes use of a large aluminum fin array to which heat is conveyed by copper heat pipes, ventilated by three 80 mm fans. As with every other HD 6870, there are 1120 stream processors 1 GB of 256-bit GDDR5 memory, and display connectivity that includes two each of DVI and mini-DP, and one HDMI. Gigabyte's HD 6870 SOC is expected to be priced closer to the $250 mark.



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[HellZaQ]

I don't know why...but for me always like such a cooling

 

[djisas]

It looks cool, not fond of blue pcb and i think that cooler is overkill for that card...

 

[wolf]

if a high binning barts core with a stock clock of 900mhz, gets a super overclocked variant at 950mhz, this tells me that GF104 is the choiceperformance GPU in this price segment. take the 560ti stock at 822mhz and SOC @ 1000mhz. thats a 5.5% core overclock vs a 21% overclock, and the memory clocks almost exactly the same.

 

[[H]@RD5TUFF]

Impressive, but the PCB looks colored wrong.