Gigabyte AMD Radeon HD6870, User Manual

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- 6 - GV-R6800 Series Graphics Accelerator
1. Introduction
1.1. Features
• Powered by
AMD Radeon
TM
HD 6870 Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)
• Supports PCI Express 2.1
• Integrated with 1 GB GDDR5 memory
• Supports DirectX
®
11
• Supports CrossFireX
TM
• Supports DVI-I / DVI-D / HDMI / mini Display portx2
• Supports Dual-Link DVI-I connector
• Supports D-Sub connectors (by adapter)
• Supports HDMI connector
• Supports mini Display portx2
1.2. Minimum System Requirements
•
Hardware
- Intel
®
Pentium
®
4/Core
TM
2 or AMD Athlon
TM
/Phenom
TM
- 1 GB or more of system memory for best performance
- Optical drive for software installation (CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive)
- A power supply that provides at least 500-watt and with two 75w 2x3-pin PCIe power
connector is required. The power supply should be with a known brand and certiied to
conform to safety regulations. (For the list of certiied power supplies, go to
http://ati.amd.com/certiiedpsu.)
•
Operating System
- Windows
®
7
- Windows
®
Vista
- Windows
®
XP with Service Pack 2 (SP2)
- Windows
®
XP Professional x64 Edition
•
CrossFireX
TM
Coniguration
If you are planning on using this graphics card as part of a CrossFireX system, the following
is required:
- A CrossFireX certiied motherboard with two PCI Express x16 slots and correct chipset driver
- Two GV-R687OC-1GD / GV-R687UD-1GD
- A power supply that provides at least 600-watt and with four 2x3-pin PCIe power
connectors is required. The power supply should be with a known brand and certiied to
conform to safety regulations. (For the list of certiied power supplies, go to
http://ati.amd.com/certiiedpsu.)
- One CrossFire bridge interconnect cables