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The Card
Although this particular card is a reference
design I'm guessing there's more chance we'll see
its design used in retail products than there ever
was with the monstrously large 5900 Ultra reference
board. Below you can see how the 5600 Ultra is dwarfed
by the 5800 and 5900 Ultra reference boards.
5900 Ultra (Top) 5800 Ultra (Middle) 5600 Ultra (Bottom)
As you can see the cooling demands of
the 5600 Ultra are far more reasonable. Gone are all
traces of memory cooling while the actual GPU cooler
is more reminiscent of the Ti4600 though considerably
shinier! Top right you can see the auxiliary power
connector is still there.
5600 Ultra Top
5600 Ultra Bottom
Memory was 128MB of Hynix HY5DU283222AF
DDR installed as four chips on the front and four
on the rear. Interestingly according to the Hynix
site this memory rated to 450MHz or 900MHz DDR so
we may see slightly slower stuff used on some retail
products.
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