3/09/2012 01:45:00 AM
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Virtually unknown outside of Asia, AFOX, a Hong Kong-based graphics card maker, showcased during this year’s CeBIT fair an innovative Radeon HD 7850 model that occupies a single slot inside the systems case.
AFOX’s latest creation, which is called the AF7850-1024D5S1, is based on a redesigned PCB that makes the card slightly longer than the reference HD 7850 design.
This is covered by a long plastic shroud which carries AMD’s and AFOX’s logos.
The cooling system comprises a large aluminum heatsink with tightly-packed fins, while the heat is drawn from the GPU via a copper plate.
Air is flown through the aluminum channels by a large diameter blower type fan which sits at the front of the graphics card.
While VR-Zone hasn't provided us with any pictures showing the base of the cooling assembly, it is pretty safe to assume that the card sports some kind of VRM and memory chip cooling.
Despite its single-slot design, the AFOX single-slot Radeon HD 7850 comes with an almost full set of display connectors, which includes a dual-link DVI port, a full-size HDMI 1.4a port, a DisplayPort 1.2 video output, as well as a full-size DisplayPort connector.
As far as the operating frequencies of the card are concerned, the GPU comes slightly overclocked to work at 900MHz instead of AMD’s recommended 860MHz.
However, the video buffer memory was cut to just 1GB, from the Radeon HD 7850 stock 2GB, and underclocked by 75MHz (300MHz effectively), for an effective clock speed of 4.5GHz compared to the reference 4.8GHz.
AFOX hasn’t provided any details regarding the pricing or availability of its graphics card.
The Radeon HD 7850 is based on the Pitcairn Pro core and it packs 1024 stream processors, 64 texturing units, 32 ROP units and the GPU is linked to the 2GB of video buffer via a 256-bit wide memory interface.
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