HIS Makes Two New Radeon HD 7950 IceQ Graphics Cards Official

HIS, one of AMD’s closest add-in board partners, has just announced the release of two new IceQ graphics cards based on the Radeon HD 7950 design, including one factory overclocked model with a 900MHz GPU clock.

Both of these cards use a cooling system developed in-house by HIS, which is called the IceQ and relies on a single blower fan placed at the rear of the card.

This is used to push air through a small, but dense aluminum channel array, which draws the heat away from the GPU thanks to a pair of 6mm thick and two 8mm thick nickel-plated copper heatpipes.

This powerful cooling assembly enabled HIS to increase the operating frequency of the iTurbo model to 900MHz, 100MHz more than AMD’s recommended clock for the HD 7950.

The memory works at the same stock 1,250MHz (5GHz data rate) in both of HIS' solutions, according to TechPowerUp.

Users who require even more performance can also overclock these cards beyond these frequencies, as the cooler used by HIS for these two solutions should be able to cope with the extra heat generated by the video card.

Sadly, HIS hasn’t provided us with any information regarding the availability, or the pricing, of these Radeon HD 7950 graphics cards.

Made official at the end of January, the Radeon HD 7950 uses the Tahiti Pro GPU, which includes a total of 1792 stream processors (vs. 2048 in the HD 7970), 112 texture units, 32 ROP units and the same 384-bit wide bus of its elder brother.

The stock operating clocks of the video card are set at 800MHz for the GPU, while the GDDR5 memory is running at 1.25GHz, but AMD’s AIB partners, HIS included, are allowed to overclock these if they want to increase the performance of their cards.

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