Posted on Tuesday, June 04 2013 @ 20:13 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
TPU
spotted a slot-powered Radeon HD 7850 graphics card from Triplex at Computex. This card draws all of its power from the PCI Express slot and does not require extra input from PCIe power cables.
The card is only available to OEMs though.
The card is based on an alternate (more expensive to implement) reference design by AMD, which has been sporadically implemented by other AMD partners. An example is this card by AFOX. Unlike AFOX' card, Triplex' lacks power connectors. The card comes with reference clock speeds of 860 MHz core, and 4.80 GHz memory. It packs 1024 stream processors, 64 TMUs, 32 ROPs, and a 256-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface, holding 2 GB of memory. Sadly, even for buyers in this part of the world, Triplex' card will be sold only in the OEM channel.
