Graphics card maker Triplex, mostly focused on the China market, has unveiled a rather interesting Radeon HD 7850 2GB graphics card spotted by Techpowerup at Computex show floor.

Although there have been a couple of single-slot HD 7850 graphics cards on the market before, the key difference is that Triplex made a HD 7850 that actually does not need any PCI-Express power connectors as it gets all the power it needs from the PCI-Express slot.

It is apparently based on AMD's reference design and works at 860MHz for the GPU and 4.8GHz for 2GB of GDDR5 memory. It still packs 1024 stream processors, 64 TMUs, 32 ROPs and a 256-bit memory interface.

Unfortunately, it appears that Triplex will only offer this card to OEMs and will not be available in retail channel but it is still a nice proof that it can actually be done and might give an idea or two to some other AMD AIB partner.



Source: Techpowerup.com.