By ChannelTimes Staff
Mumbai, Dec 12, 2008 1600 hrs IST

Gigabyte United, a manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards, has launched its in-house designed new DisplayPort ready GV-R4870 graphics card. Built on ATI Radeon HD 4870 GPU, the GV-R487D5-1GD features 1GB/256-bit high-speed GDDR5 video memory. As per the company, the card incorporates various graphics technologies including native DisplayPort connectivity, TeraScale graphics engine, ATI CrossFireX support, Unified Video Decoder 2 (UVD 2) and ATI PowerPlay power management technology. The GV-R487D5-1GD is capable of outputting DispalyPort signals. The new generation DisplayPort interface supports higher resolutions, richer color depth and increased refresh rate performance. It delivers 10.8Gbps of bandwidth over previous generations of connectivity options such as DVI, LVDS and VGA. With added DisplayPort connectivity on the GV-R487D5-1GD, PC gamers will be able to play all the latest games on their large-screen home theater displays. The GV-R487D5-1GD features ATI's all-new TeraScale graphics engine, boasting teraFLOPS of GPU computing power with 800 stream processors and nearly one billion transistors. Equipped with 1GB GDDR5 memory, the card delivers nearly two times the memory bandwidth of the previous generation, the company said. In combination with 24x custom filter anti-aliasing (CFAA) and anisotropic filtering, the GV-R487D5-1GD is able to create true-to-life graphics effects for everything from grass to facial features. It also provides DirectX 10.1 graphics capabilities with support for Shader Model 4.1. The GV-R487D5-1GD fully supports UVD 2 for decoding processing-intensive content for 1080p HDTV and HD video. It takes full advantage of Blu-ray functionality with dual-stream, picture-in-picture (PIP) capabilities and one-cable HDMI connectivity. Related Links: Gigabyte Announces Support for AMD 45nm Processors Gigabyte Offers M-boards for Intel Core i7 Chips