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MSI R5870 Lightning - adapter based on the Radeon HD 5870 with 15-Phase Power

Thursday, February 25, 2010

One of the leading manufacturers of video cards MSI has officially introduced a new graphics accelerator R5870 Lightning, on the development of which we have repeatedly reported the news. As the name implies, this adapter is a solution based on the ATI Radeon HD 5870, which became part of a flagship series of Lightning.



As well as other modifications ATI Radeon HD 5870, graphics card MSI R5870 Lightning made on the basis of 40 nm and the Cypress chip is equipped with technology support of DirectX 11, ATI Eyefinity and ATI Stream, as well as the regime CrossFireX. In addition, to increase reliability when working at extreme loads accelerator is equipped with high-class capacitors, Hi-c CAP and 15-phase power system.



For power supplies graphics accelerator MSI R5870 Lightning meets the 8-pin power connector PCIe, and cooling components for the video card - a high-performance cooler Twin Frozr II with two 80 mm PWM fan and thermal tubes SuperPipe 8 mm in diameter. The adapter has received and a special PCB design called LPL (Lightning Power Layer). It is no accident MSI R5870 Lightning is positioned as a solution for the extreme gamer.

Other characteristics of the graphics card MSI R5870 Lightning include the presence of points of V-Check, capable of detecting voltage of the GPU and the memory and 1 GB of GDDR5 memory and 256-bit interface and video outputs DisplayPort, DVI and HDMI. GPU clock speed and memory are 900 and 4800 MHz respectively, and supplied to the video card included overclocker utility Afterburner.

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