Sapphire has announced its newest R7 240 Low Profile graphics card aimed at small form factor (SFF) PCs as well as home-theater PCs (HTPC). Based on a low profile PCB and packing GCN based GPU with support for HDMI 1.4a and 4K resolutions, the R7 240 LP should be the favorite of any HTPC builder.

As noted, the new Sapphire R7 240 LP is based on AMD's 28nm Oland GCN-based GPU and packs 320 stream processors. It works at 730MHz base GPU and 780MHz Boost GPU clocks while 2GB of DDR3 memory is clocked at 900MHz (1.8GHz effective). Although it will not run any new games at ultra-high setting it should be enough for some oldies and indie games. Of course, such card is never aimed at gaming but movie watching and other HTPC related tasks. Thanks to a single slot thin cooler with a fan as well as the low profile PCB design, it should fit in, most likely, all SFF PC cases.

Featuring two HDMI outputs, it allows dual display setups which should definitely come in handy for some HTPC and SFF builders as well.

Unfortunately, Sapphire did not release any details regarding he price or the actual availability date, but we are quite sure we will see in retail/e-tail pretty soon with a price of around €60/US $70.



Source: Sapphiretech.com.