Gigabyte Prepares Factory Overclocked Radeon HD 6970 with WindForce 3X Cooler

May 2, 2011 at 11:55am EDT

Gigabyte is readying its second custom factory overclocked variant of the Radeon HD 6970 Graphics card. The card GV-R697OC-2GD would be equipped with the company's latest innovative cooling design "WindForce 3X" which includes an aluminium heatsink covering the VRM and GPU Core and cooled by 3 WindForce Fans. The card being Factory Overlclocked comes with some amazing clock speeds of 920 MHz 5500 MHz, respectively (880/5500 MHz stock, 900/5500 MHz.

Gigabyte's Radeon HD 6970 WindForce 3X comes with the company's exclusive features such as Ultra Durable VGA+ design (2oz copper PCB, a Proadlizer capacitor, Ferrite Core and Metal Chokes, Low RDS MOSFET). It includes a total of 1536 Stream Processors, a 256-bit memory interface, 2GB of GDDR5 VRAM and the usual crossfirex support. The display outputs include 2 DVI, One Mini HDMI and One display port.

The company didn't detailed the pricing or release date of the card.

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