XFX HD 5970 Black Limited Edition Eyefinity 6

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Marc Rademaker
wednesday 3 march 2010 12:54

XFX Video Card Manufacturer like Sapphire and Asus have a special variant of the HD 5970 in the pipeline. The video card gets a different cooler, overclocking is standard and offers six mini-display port outputs.

The HD 5970 Black Limited Edition, which only arrived Wednesday at the Cebit, resembles a normal HD 5970 at first sight, though the fan is located in the middle and not the end.
Closer inspection also shows that the GPU gets its current through two eight-pin PCI-e connectors. The card is equipped with 4GB memory, which likely will be clocked at 1200MHz. The clock speed of the GPUs is still not fixed, but according to XFX-sales manager Marc Lücke Gold will presumably run on 850MHz......

The cooler could not be removed of the video card, but according to XFX the shown model is still not the final version. Virtual images could still cast a glance at the retail cooler. It reveals the GPUs are both cooled by their own heatsink, while the centrally located fan pushes air through plenty aluminum fins. How quiet and cool the cooler would be XFX could not reveal yet. Remarkable also are the six mini-display port outputs, which the twin-Eyefinity graphics card distinguishes itself from Sapphires and Asus' special HD 5970 versions. Moreover passive adapters are supplied to make other connections possible.

The HD 5970 Black Limited Edition will cost around $ 1000. As the name suggests, only in a limited edition and according to XFX some thousand five hundred copies will be sold. The expectation is that the HD 5970 Black Limited Edition will be for sale end March.

Source
tweakers.net

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Fermi-less XFX comes out all guns blazing with 4GB Radeon HD 5970

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whatever the reason, XFX currently has no GeForce 400-series products in its line up and will instead turns its attention to a high-end part first seen at CeBIT earlier this month; the 4GB Radeon HD 5970 Eyefinity 6 Black Edition.

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Joining the likes of Sapphire and ASUS, XFX's souped-up card is said to feature two 850MHz Radeon HD 5870 "Cypress" GPUs on a single PCB, hooked up to a gargantuan 4GB GDDR5 frame buffer running at an effective 4,800MHz.

On paper, that makes it the fastest thing since Jenson Button, and it looks as though XFX is pulling out all the stops to make this the one card everyone wants, but nobody can afford.

In addition to the 5970-beating specs, XFX's card also incorporates six Mini DisplayPort outputs to make full use of ATI Eyefinity technology, ...

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On paper, that makes it the fastest thing since Jenson Button, and it looks as though XFX is pulling out all the stops to make this the one card everyone wants, but nobody can afford.
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Back at CeBIT, XFX was said to be producing just 1,500 units of this limited edition card, so we'd expect it to fetch at least $1,000 if it ever comes to retail.

Source
hexus