Not long ago, we told our news tape of passively cooled version of the graphic processor ATI Radeon HD 4850, prepared for release developers from Tul Corporation (brand PowerColor). Now, thanks to the information appeared on the official website of Gigabyte, it became known that and in the range of the manufacturer now has a “slow” accelerator based on established 55 - nm chip technology RV770 PRO streaming with 800 processors.

According to released figures, model Gigabyte GV-R485MC-1GH formed on printed circuit boards custom blue color and is equipped with an original design dvuhslotovym cooler, which was built on proprietary technology Multi-Core Thermal Technology and consists of two aluminum radiators with several copper heat pipes. In doing so easy to guess that for the effective operation of such a video card simply requires a very well-ventilated hull, otherwise avoid overheating the products are unlikely to succeed.

Moreover, it is worth noting that the novelty staffed gigabyte memory GDDR3 with 256 - bit interface, which operates at a frequency of 2000 MHz, while the working frequency graphic kernel is 625 MHz. Accelerator, of course, uses the bus PCI Express 2.0 x16, compatible with DirectX 10.1 Shader Model 4.1 and supports advanced technologies such as ATI CrossFireX Multi-GPU Technology, ATI PowerPlay and ATI Avivo HD Technology with an integrated video processor second-generation (Unified Video Decoder 2) . With regard to communication facilities, they presented a pair of ports Dual-Link DVI and one HDTV-output.

According to information from a network resource Matbe.com, sales Gigabyte GV-R485MC-1GH already come in September and will be offered at a price of around 200 euros.