Sapphire AMD Radeon HD 7950 Flex Edition Announced, Makes Eyefinity Easy
Sapphire Tech has announced the AMD Radeon HD 7950 Flex Edition, their new unique solution for eyefinity gaming. The GPU is of course based on the HD 7000 series graphics processors which are based on the GCN (Graphics Core Next) architecture by AMD. What makes the Flex Edition different you ask? Well how about the fact it can run Eyefinity using three DVI monitors unlike other HD 7000 series products that usually rely on a third monitor being connected via DisplayPort or via active DisplayPort Adaptor. Sapphire solution is pretty straight forward simply connect two monitors to the DVI ports and the third through an HDMI to DVI cable which is supplied, thus no extra hardware is necessary. On top of making Eyefinity easy, Sapphire has boosted the clock speeds to 860 MHz on the core and 1250 MHz (5 Gb/s effective) on the memory. To round out the Sapphire HD 7950 Flex Edition comes the overclocking tool, TriXX which is a free to download and allows manual control of GPU voltage as well as core and memory clocks, alongside manual fan control and temperature display with the ability to save four seperate performance settings. The Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 Flex Edition certainly looks to be a winner when it comes to multi-display gaming.
HDMI specifications have also increased in the HD 7000 series. Fast HDMI 1.4a supports Stereoscopic 3D with enhanced frame rates of 60Hz per eye – 120Hz total. It is also ready for the next generation of 4K displays that can be driven from a single high speed input of 3GHz HDMI 1.4a or DisplayPort 1.2 HBR2.
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