While AMD and Nvidia’s next-gen 28nm graphics cards remain absent, PowerColor takes the opportunity to broaden its range of Radeon 6000-series models by launching a new top model in the Radeon HD 6900 series. The PowerColor Devil 13 HD6970 comes with its own custom-built circuit board with 12-phase power supply, a more powerful cooling solution and an included screwdriver.
The PowerColor Devil 13 HD6970 looks about as much enthusiast-oriented as a graphics card can be and thanks to the (at least om paper) exceptional cooling solution it should do well in the competition with similar enthusiast cards from the likes of Gigabyte, ASUS and MSI. We have pegged the HD 6970 at number 4 in our top ten graphics card ranking, but this particular card might be worth kicking up a notch. The Devil 13 have been built around a custom-made circuit board where PowerColor has made room for a full 12 power phases but also points of tension and LEDs that provide status indicators for the graphics card’s GPU.
Among the components on the card we find prodalizer capacitors (but sadly no flux capacitor), 2GB of GDDR5 memory and a sizable cooler with dual 92mm fans that will allegedly provide 60% better airflow than the standard 80mm fans–allowing you to bring those clocks up a bit further. The cooler also has four large 8mm heat pipes that are routed to a larger copper base.
PowerColor’s diabolical graphics card ships with default frequencies for the Radeon HD 6970–880MHz for the GPU core and 1375MHz for the memory (5500MHz effective). However, the Devil 13 also comes with an overclocking switch, where you can activate the card’s overclocking profile that provides a GPU frequency of 960 MHz and memory frequency of 1425 MHz (5700 MHz effective). If you think it’s strange that they didn’t apply those clocks at the factory, you are not alone.
Among the outputs, we find dual DVI-I, HDMI, and dual mini-DisplayPort ports. The graphics card ships in a very slick-looking black box and for some reason also a matching set of screwdriver bits. What the final price tag will be is unclear, but the PowerColor HD 6970 Devil 13 will be on store shelves from the end of October.
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