ASUS prepping Radeon HD 6850 DirectCU

Posted on Monday, October 18 2010 @ 15:35 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck

TC Mag discovered that ASUS will introduce a Radeon HD 6850 graphics card with the company's DirectCU cooler. The card can already be preordered online for around $218.44.

Named EAH6850 DirectCU/2DIS/1GD5, the incoming card features DirectX 11 support, 800 Stream Processors, and should run cooler than reference models.

Asus' EAH6850 DirectCU also has a slightly overclocked GPU (790 MHz), a 256-bit memory interface, 1GB of GDDR5 VRAM @ 4000 MHz, dual-DVI, HDMI and DisplayPort outputs, and can already be found on pre-order priced at $218.44.

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