HIS Sticks a Passive Cooler on World's First 2GB Radeon HD 6570 Graphics Card
HIS Sticks a Passive Cooler on World's First 2GB Radeon HD 6570 Graphics Card
Posted 09/19/2011 at 7:25am
| by Paul Lilly
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HIS must have figured it wasn't enough to simply squeeze 2GB of DDR3 memory on a Radeon HD 6570 graphics card and call it a day, so it replaced the heatsink/fan assembly with a passive cooler. Not only is this half-height card toting the most memory of any HD 6570 out there, it's also completely silent.
The decision to double up the RAM on the Radeon HD 6570 is certainly a dubious one, but the passive cooler and low profile design (with included low profile brackets) both offer tangible benefits for HTPC users or silent PC gurus. Otherwise, it's the same HD 6570 as you already know it, with 480 stream processors, 24 texture units, and 8 ROP units. HIS clocked the GPU at 650MHz, and the 2GB of DDR3 memory runs at 1,000MHz on a narrow 128-bit bus.
Connectivity options include a VGA port, dual-link DVI port, and HDMI 1.4a. Look for the card to sell for around $105.
HIS 6570 Silence 2GB Product Page
Image Credit: HIS
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Peanut Fox
September 19, 2011 at 11:05pm
The 6570 is GPU limited. I wonder what the reason is for making it a 2GB card vs a 1GB or 512MB. Heck. Even the 1.5GB GTX 580s are GPU limited with the way todays games are made. Doubling up the memory only severs to increse the lantancy, and in all but the most extreme cases will show a 1 to 2 FPS loss. Even when the extra memory does start to help, at 15 FPS the game is unplayable anyway.
Unless you want a fanless system, this card just seems kind of odd sporting that much VRAM. I think people just like big numbers, so they buy things without looking to see if there will be an actaul preformance benefit.
Brad Nimbus
September 19, 2011 at 8:55am
I wish they would do the same with a card that could actually use it, I have every reason to believe that if my 6870 had 2GB I would be able to damn near max out GTA 4.
Mr.Rager22
September 19, 2011 at 12:47pm
I'm not sure 2GB of memory would make much difference. From my understanding, clock speeds and bus width are the main factors in determining how fast a video card is. It makes me laugh when I see a Dell XPS online sporting 3GB OF VIDEO MEMORY!!!! It's still slower than my 1GB 6850.
Brad Nimbus
September 20, 2011 at 6:44am
I always assumed vram is used for cache which for a game like GTA 4 with all the rendering is very important (then again I just woke up way too early and I'm prolly talking out my ass)
lol next year Dell will be advertising the first ever 5GB VRAM XPS XD
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