1/20/2012 07:22:00 PM
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Sapphire, being one of AMD's partners on the video card market, is naturally preparing its own Radeon HD 7900 cards, one of which has become the subject of a recent information leak.
Yet again, information on an unannounced product has found its way to the Internet, whether its maker likes it or not.
As it turns out, Sapphire is working on an item called HD7950 3G GDDR5 PCI-E HDMI/DVI-I/DUAL MINI DP OC VERSION.
Essentially, this is a Radeon HD 7950 board that steps away from the reference design even though it retains the stock clock speeds.
The dual-fan cooler takes up two slots, not too little but definitely not too much space either.
After all, it does not even get close to the amount of room that Yeston's upcoming Radeon HD 7970 will need.
For those unaware, Yeston is preparing a high-end Radeon board with a humongous quad-slot cooler.
Back to Sapphire device, the card has 3 GB of GDDR5 VRAM, a memory interface of 284 bits and 1,792 stream processors.
Furthermore, buyers will find a dual-link DVI connector, two Mini-Displayport outputs and an HDMI port, plus DisplayPort 1.2.
As for the operational frequencies themselves, the clock speed of the GPU (graphics processing unit) is 900 MHz, while the VRAM operates at 5,000 MHz.
All in all, this is a video board which, though lacking factory overclocking, has what it needs to cope with whatever clock tweaks owners will lean towards.
As always, it falls to buyers to temper their own enthusiasm. While cards have safety features and usually cause a PC restart when overheating, there is still every possibility of failure if overclockers go too far. Fortunately, the cooler does not look like a slouch.
Unfortunately, as is often the case with pre-release reports, there is, at this time, no word on availability or pricing.
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