Passively cooled HD 5670 from Sapphire

Sapphire’s new card can be a great choice for those who prefer quiet operation over speed.

Sapphire Tech management today unveiled a silent, passively cooled version of its HD 5670 for the mainstream segment. The graphics card, called the Radeon HD 5670 Ultimate Edition, is based on a chip codenamed Redwood that contains the 400 Stream processor. The engineers did not change the clock signals from the factory values, so the well-proven 775 MHz GPU and the 1 MHz clock signal of 5 gigabyte of GDDR4000-type memory remain, and there is still a 128-bit wide memory interface between the two units. The PCB of the novelty boasts the usual blue color from Sapphire, on which the aluminum lamella cooler with two heat pipes is spread. The back panel has DVI, HDMI, DisplayPort connector triplets.

Although the Sapphire DirectX 11 compatible video card is not yet shipped, it can already be pre-ordered for 112 euros (~ 32 forints).