HIS Passive Cooled Radeon HD 6670 iSilence 5 Makes Appearance

Over the years, we have grown accustomed to HIS' in-house Radeon HD designs and today the company has released another such solution based on AMD's HD 6670 GPU, the HIS 6670 iSilence 5 1GB DDR3, which was built specifically for HTPC enthusiasts.

The video card was designed in order to provide noise-free operation and uses a passive heatsink to dissipate the heat produced by the HD 6670 graphics core.

This covers most of the card’s PCB and increases cooling efficiency by maximizing the heat dissipation surface. Heat is conducted from the GPU and into the aluminum fin array via four copper heatpipes. 

The good news is that the advanced cooling assembly used by HIS doesn’t require more than two slots inside the system case, which means that it can even be used in 2-way CrossFireX setups (if paired with an AMD motherboard). 

As far as the operating clocks of the card are concerned, HIS set the GPU frequency at AMD's recommended 800MHz, but the memory has been downgraded from the recommended 4GHz data rate GDDR5 to 1GB of DDR3 working at 1600MHz.

The rest of the 6670 iSilence 5 specs are nothing out of the ordinary as the graphics card features the usual VGA, DVI and HDMI video outputs.

HIS' latest creation is available in the retail market as we speak, with pricing set at £60 excluding VAT, which roughly translates into 72 EUR or $94.3 USD.

AMD's Radeon HD 6670 is based on the Turks graphics core, which includes 480 streaming processors, 24 texture units, 8 ROP units and a 128-bit wide memory bus.

The low TDP of the Radeon HD 6670 core means that the card doesn’t require any external power, which makes it perfect for upgrading your system without having to supply a beefier PSU.

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