ASUS will supply several of its graphics card flagships with the new DirectCU II cooler. A bird told us that Radeon HD 6970 DirectCU II that was shown at CES 2011 will get even more. The card supports up to six monitors and so it doesn’t have to wait for DisplayPort 1.2 components ASUS has made a work-around.
ASUS 6970 DirectCU II Eyfinity 6 has a whole bunch of video outputs, but even if all Radeon HD 6900 cards support up to 6 monitors it is not without limitations. You need neither monitors or monitor hubs with the new standard DisplayPort 1.2, but there are not such products on the market today.
ASUS has instead used two ol’ fashion DVI-I outputs and thanks to the monstrous 3-slot cooler it has room for four more full-size DisplayPort outputs. These outputs use the regular DisplayPort 1.1 standard and can each hold one extra monitor at up to 2560×1600 pixel resolution.
Beside resolutions up to 15260 x 1600 pixels with six monitors the card has a Cayman XT GPU with 1536 stream processors and 2GB GDDR5 RAM hidden beneath the DirectCU II cooler. The exact frequencies we’re not certain of, but most likely a mild increase since ASUS has focused on making the card as quiet as possible and leave the overclocking to the consumers. With a custom circuit board, 8 power phases for GPU, 2 phases for memory and ASUS Voltage Tweak there is overclocking potential.
ASUS 6970 DirectCU II Eyfinity 6 specifications
- Cayman XT GPU med 1 536 st. stream processors
- 2GB GDDR5 RAM
- Custom PCB
- 8 power phases for GPU
- 2 power phases for memory
- DirectCU II cooler with dual 100x20mm fans (needs 3 slots)
- ASUS Voltage Tweak
ASUS 6970 DirectCU II Eyfinity 6 is said to arrive soon, but the price is so far unknown.
