HIS Radeon HD 7850 IceqX TurboX review - Product Showcase

Product Showcase

Okay, pictures first. On this page you can see the HIS R7850 IceqX TurboX edition, a graphics card with 2GB graphics memory.

Included with all cards will be a manual and a demo and driver CD, power converters and monitor connector converters to get your multi-monitor freak on. Let's have a look at that:

We see a dark/blue looking card from HIS. The close to 3 billion-transistor 28nm Pitcairn based core is tied to 2GB memory -- which is plenty enough for midrange products. As stated, all the regulars are included.

The reference Radeon HD 7850 cards are clocked at a 860 MHz core frequency and the GDDR5 memory runs at 4.8 Gbps (effective data rate as GDDR5 has a quad data-rate, so effectively that quadruples that number), the memory bus is 256-bit.

This HIS R7850 model is however clocked at 1000 MHz. The memory clock is 200 MHz higher clocked at an effective data rate of 5000 MHz.

Here we can see the backside, the cards will fit pretty much any chassis. It's a custom design PCB with a blue color.