Sapphire Offers an Alternative Radeon HD 7870 GHz Graphics Card

Sapphire Technology, a renowned supplier of graphics solutions, has added an alternative model of AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition to its graphics cards model line. The new model is primarily notable by the integration of a two-slot Dual-X cooler that facilitated the process of entitling: Sapphire Radeon HD 7870 GHz Dual-X Edition. This cooler consists of a voluminous aluminum heatsink, a couple of large fans, and a few copper heat pipes which are covered by a plastic lid.

Graphics card Sapphire Radeon HD 7870 GHz Dual-X Edition is based on Pitcairn chip with 1280 current processors; it is developed under 28 nm technological process and Graphics Core Next architecture. The core is able to operate at the nominal 1000 MHz frequency. Blue printed circuit board is the heart of the adapter. PCB is designed particularly for PCI-e 3.0 x16 bus and houses 2GB of GDDR5 memory with 256-bit interface. The memory is capable to achieve the clock frequency of 4800 MHz.

To continue, the integration of two 6-contact sockets ensures the realization of an additional power supply. The rear board of the adapter is introduced by three types of video outputs: a couple of DVI ports, a single HDMI, and one DisplayPort. The model is compatible with DirectX 11.1 technology.

Sapphire Radeon HD 7870 GHz Dual-X Edition is equipped with a Unified Video Decoder graphics processor and Video Codec Engine. The implemented processor is known to support MPEG-4/DivX, MPEG-2, H.264/AVCHD, Multi-View Codec. Additionally, this graphics card model supports a variety of technologies powered by AMD, including ZeroCore Power, Eyefinity 2.0, PowerTune, Steady Video 2.0.