POWERCOLOR LAUNCHES FIRST HD6850 SINGLE SLOT EDITION
Multi-function and performance available in 4 way CrossFireX
Taipei, Taiwan –April 21, 2011 — TUL Corporation, a leading manufacturer of AMD graphics cards, today announces the first-to-market video card: the PowerColor HD6850 single slot edition. The first available HD6850 single slot edition aims to fulfill the desire of performance and multi-function seekers when space is a premium.
The PowerColor HD6850 single slot edition clocks in at 775MHz core speed and 1000MHz memory speed; accelerating gaming speed with 1.48 teraFLOPs of computing Power. The slim HD6850 can maximize the rig’s performance in a single slot design, allowing a 4 way CrossFireX layout that delivers an out-of-box HD gaming experience like no other.
The PowerColor HD6850 single slot edition also takes advantage of PowerColor’s Platinum Power Kit, utilizing 100% SMT type components: Volterra, Poscap and Proadlizer, enhancing the stability and efficiency for top-tier gaming performance. Furthermore, the latest edition uses the exquisite thermal design, mounting 3 units of 8mm heat pipes with a full cover cooling plate, dissipating heat from its large pure copper base. These features enable a cool entertainment experience when space is at a premium.
HD6850 Single Slot Edition Core Speed 775MHz Memory Speed 1000MHz(4.0Gbps) Memory 1GB GDDR5 Memory Bandwidth 256bit Eyefinity Yes DirectX® 11 CrossFireX™ Yes Output DL-DVI-I/ HDMI/2x mini DisplayPort * Specifications subject to change without notice.
In my opinion, I haven’t saw a single slot card in a long time
http://www.powercolor.com/us/News.asp?id=1105
23 Apr 2011, 10:37 am
Idk what happened here.
23 Apr 2011, 11:18 am
they had a single slot 5750 too so this is pretty much the same thing.
23 Apr 2011, 12:43 pm
Please try and keep from making titles of threads in all capitals LIKE THIS!!!!
I’m not yelling just a friendly reminder
23 Apr 2011, 12:58 pm
i think i notice now
23 Apr 2011, 1:32 pm
But that card is way less powerful.
The power of a HD 6850 in a single slot is pretty good.
I wonder how well it scales in QuadFireX? Probably quite badly.
23 Apr 2011, 1:41 pm
23 Apr 2011, 4:34 pm
Hmm…that’s interesting…
I wonder how cool it runs. I would imagine that it runs pretty hot. And where the hell did quadfire come from????
23 Apr 2011, 4:58 pm
i like it
23 Apr 2011, 6:11 pm
the 6750 and 5750 are almost exactly the same performance wise
24 Apr 2011, 1:36 am
Yes but you were comparing the 6850 to the 5750