Monday, March 28, 2011

Sapphire Radeon HD 6950 Edition FleX

Sapphire Technology has unveiled a new video card Radeon HD-series belong to the family FleX. This is the HD 6950 FleX Edition, a solution that combines the power of 3D processing architecture AMD Cayman offer the opportunity to drive three monitors in DVI mode Eyefinity active without having to buy separate adapters.

Normally, the supporting technology to Eyefinity 3 displays require the purchase of an active DisplayPort to DVI adapter or requires that at least one monitor is equipped with a DisplayPort connection, the solution developed by the manufacturer in Hong Kong can use two monitors connected to 2 DVI and a third monitor connected to the HDMI with the DVI adapter.


The Sapphire HD 6950 FleX Edition is based on the architecture AMD Cayman built with 40nm technology. Integra 1408 SPs, 88 TMUs and 32 ROPs. The amount of video memory on-board type is equal to 2GB of GDDR5 with a 256-bit interface. The operating frequencies are 800/5000 MHz (GPU / MEM).

Here's the official press release: SAPPHIRE HD6950 FleX Eyefinity easier for fans of gaming Direct support for 3 monitors in DVI mode Eyefinity family FleX SAPPHIRE SAPPHIRE Technology has announced the new SAPPHIRE HD6950 Flex Edition, thus raising the level of gaming performance to SAPPHIRE exclusive solution for multi-screen gaming.

Most graphics cards based on AMD technology require that the third and subsequent monitor configuration Eyefinity are connected to a monitor or DisplayPort DisplayPort adapter active. Adapters, SAPPHIRE FleX support three DVI monitor mode Eyefinity and provide a real workspace SLS (Single Large Surface) without the need for expensive active adapters.

The first two monitors are connected to the two DVI ports and the third is a HDMI to DVI cable (included) without any additional hardware. SAPPHIRE HD6950 FleX Edition is the new high-performance graphics card with this feature, which allows enthusiasts to gamers and office users to use advanced three DVI monitor flights.

In the configuration, you can add more monitors to be connected with DisplayPort. As the standard HD6950, HD6950 SAPPHIRE FleX Edition boasts DX11 compatibility and powerful equipment of 1408 stream processors and 88 texture processing units. With the clock speed of 800 MHz core and 1250 MHz (5 Gb / s effective) for the memory, this model allows the advantage of multi-screen, even for the most demanding gamer.

The Dual BIOS feature allows fans to experience alternative and BIOS configurations to further increase performance with Trixx, the SAPPHIRE overclocking tool available for free download. Cooled by the award-winning exclusive Vapor-X SAPPHIRE, SAPPHIRE HD6950 FleX Edition provides excellent thermal dissipation even in demanding applications.

The Flex product family SAPPHIRE HD6950 Flex Edition is to join three other elements of the Flex product family, which provide a wide range of price and performance for various applications and users, including the pioneering HD 5770 FleX Edition, introduced last year. The SAPPHIRE HD6870 FleX recently introduced was the first tab of the Flex series DX11 architecture of AMD's second generation, including the core-edge technology for streaming 3D content.

It features 1120 stream processors and 1 GB of the most advanced GDDR5 memory, which together with a clock speed of 900 MHz core and 1050 MHz (4.2 GHz actual) for memory, provide excellent performance. The efficient cooling of these cards, with three heatpipes 8 mm and resistant to dust sealed bearings, maintain efficiency in the card that has a silent operation even under heavy use.

The new SAPPHIRE HD 5670 Flex, intended for users more cost-conscious, is a very convenient solution Eyefinity for increased productivity in business applications or editing. SAPPHIRE HD 5670 graphics card is DX11 highest performance without requiring external power connector and makes the ideal family FleX for the upgrading of existing PC systems, with additional support third monitor.

It has 400 Stream processors and 1 GB of the most advanced GDDR5 memory, which together with a clock speed of 775MHz (core) and 1000MHz (4GHz effective) (memory) provide excellent performance. Video HD cards the family integrate a decoder SAPPHIRE FleX UVD (Unified Video decoder) considerably reducing the workload on the CPU, the hardware accelerated decoding of content on Blu-ray ™ and other video content for both VC codec -1 and H.264, for Mpeg files.

The UVD decoder can simultaneously decode two video streams and view HD 1080p HD video in high quality mode with Windows Aero enabled. Both 5670 and 5770 cards have HDMI 1.3a with Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master. The HD6950 and HD6870 FleX Editions feature HDMI 1.4 output with additional support for viewing the stereoscopic 3D.

The series FleX SAPPHIRE graphics driver has WHQL certification for AMD's DirectX 11 supporting all the key features of DirectX 11 applications for new gaming experiences and accelerate high-performance applications for the next generation.

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