October 26th, 2010
ZALMAN Radeon HD 6850 with 4xCrossFire support

ZALMAN presents new Radeon HD 6850 with support up to 4-cards CrossFire connection. New ZALMAN graphics holds ZALMAN VF3000 cooler, two CrossFire connectors.
Card has 6-phase digital PWN, 1GB GDDR5 memory, 960 stream processors, two 6-pin power connectors, DSUB, HDMI, DVI, DisplayPort outputs.
Pricing info is not available at the momment.
techPowerUP:
Chinese graphics card manufacturer ColorFire designed a new non-reference design AMD Radeon HD 6850 graphics card that that uses a stronger VRM and a Zalman VF-3000 GPU cooler. The PCB sets the red color-scheme, and the cooler keeps up with it, using a hot rod looking shroud. The card uses a 7+1 phase VRM that draws power from two 6-pin power connectors, facilitating high clock speeds. The PCB also holds two CFBI fingers, indicating the card to support 3-way and 4-way CrossFireX. Low-latency (0.5 ns) GDDR5 memory chips by Hynix are used.
The VF-3000 has some hefty credentials, it can handle very high thermal loads. The cooler makes use of a dense aluminum fin array that is ventilated by two 90 mm fans. The exact clock speeds are not known. Display connectivity includes one each of DVI, D-Sub, HDMI 1.4, and DisplayPort 1.2. Like every other HD 6850, this one packs 960 stream processors, and supports the latest graphics APIs such as DirectX 11 and OpenGL 4.x. It’s not known if ColorFire will market this card outside China.




