3/16/2012 09:40:00 PM
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Earlier this week we found out that HIS was working on a new Radeon HD 7970 custom design that was going to be based on an updated version of the company’s IceQ cooler, which now utilizes two fans instead of one.
Just a few hours ago, HIS made this new design official, with the release of the HIS HD 7970 IceQ X² and HIS HD IceQ X² Turbo graphics card models.
The two solutions are basically identical except for their operating clock speeds, as the vanilla model sticks to AMD’s reference 950MHz core and 1,375MHz (5.5GHz data rate) clock speeds, while the Turbo model comes factory overclocked.
As a result, the GPU is now working at 1,050MHz, while the VRAM has a 1,400MHz (5.6GHz effective) operating frequency.
The two fans used by HIS’ new IceQ X² cooler measure a massive 112mm in diameter and are placed on top of a large fin array that draws the heat away from the GPU via three 6mm and two 8mm nickel-plated copper heatpipes.
According to HIS, the result is a cooler that is said to lower the operating temperatures of the card by up to 17° C, while also being 15dB quieter.
Sadly, no details regarding the availability, or the price, of these latest HIS HD 7970 solutions have been provided by TechPowerUp.
The Radeon HD 7970 is AMD’s highest performing graphics card to date and was officially introduced by the company in December of 2011. The card is based on AMD’s new Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture.
In the Tahiti XT core utilized by the HD 7970, AMD packed 32 Compute Units for a total of 2048 stream processors that are joined by 128 texture units, 32 ROP units and a 384-bit wide memory bus that is connected to 3GB of video buffer memory.
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