Where has this been proven? Links? Core is what eats power. Memory although consume power will only consume fraction of what the core consumes. You probably saw a combination of the core and memory redux affecting power consumption.
It couldn't possibly eat 5-10 more watts for 1200mhz from 1000mhz.
The problem currently is it is being held back by drivers, software, and the applications themselves. Current drivers are not without problems on the new Radeon HD 5000 series. There are a slew of games that have some kind of issue with this new graphics series from AMD. If it isn’t lack of AA support or poor AA performance then it is just overall slower performance than it should be in games.
Unimpressive. :\
Looking at the benches, it would appear that the driver certainly needs to improve. But as of now, AMD has the fastest dual GPU card, and the fastest single GPU card. Infact, 3 of the fastest 4 cards that money can buy from any manufacturer are from AMD. Pretty much any new card that launches from either camp will typically have it's driver bugs, I imagine the problem is compounded with dual GPU cards. We all know that these will get worked out as AMD releases their monthy drivers and hotfixes.
I would think the single biggest knock right now is availability of the 58x0 parts and we'll see how availability with the 5970 turns out. The 58x0 parts are trickling in here and there. But even at the less than stellar availability of the 58x0 parts, AMD's availablity of DX11 hardware is still much, MUCH better than Nvidia's availability of DX11 parts.
You're certainly not a n00b, so I have to wonder why you expend the energy...?
Where has this been proven? Links? Core is what eats power. Memory although consume power will only consume fraction of what the core consumes. You probably saw a combination of the core and memory redux affecting power consumption.
It couldn't possibly eat 5-10 more watts for 1200mhz from 1000mhz.
5970 is a very impressive video card. It is much faster than what was once the fastest, the Nvidia 295, by just 100 bucks more. What more can consumer ask for?
Here http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=67928
"Lowering the MEMORY clock from 900MHz to 225MHz yielded a temperature difference of 6C to 11C, and 38W savings in power consumption."
Of course it's not astonishing, but it does look that GDDR5 sucks some power after all. It's still the GPU the most power hungry piece on the card, but GDDR5 adds some heat into the equation as well. But like I've said, it still doesn't justify the choice for the clocks ATI chose. It could have went a bit over 300 Watts, I don't think people had any problems with that.
Do you have links to back those up?
AMD's availablity of DX11 hardware is still much, MUCH better than Nvidia's availability of DX11 parts.
Luckily NVIDIA's availability of PhysX games is much, much better than the availability of DX11 games. :whiste:
In fact I think NVIDIA got lucky here. Even though their card appears to be showing up late, there are no top shelf DX11 games to drive demand and poor availability of the 5xxx series.
This card has a $600 price tag, which oddly enough no one here is complaining about (much like they did when NVIDIA cards priced high).
Actually was this a paper launch as I don't see any at Newegg??
Wreckage, I'm not sure why I'm feeding the troll, but I have said the $600 price point is a bit much for me. At $500 I would pull the trigger on this one. I can wait.
It's showing very solid gains but I'm not that impressed with it vs the GTX295.
It's pretty amusing to see ATI completely, utterly destroying Nvidia and Wreckage jumping in to say b..b...but PhysX... and... p..price tag.... and..um.... ATI sucks! Yeah that's the ticket! Go Nvidia! Down with ATI!
So basically inferring, since nVidia can't compete fairly, sabotage is in order?
Edit: I have to add that misquoting something is not something new, you seem to have a knack for specifically misquoting something, (by edit* or omission) to show something different than the intent of the original author!
Back on topic, I'm a bit worried about the tendency of the power consumption overall, it won't be long that in the next two generations of cards, it will exceed the 300W limit threshold and can handicap the progress a bit.
Wreckage, I'm not sure why I'm feeding the troll, but I have said the $600 price point is a bit much for me. At $500 I would pull the trigger on this one. I can wait.
I'm personally sick of hearing this sabotage excuse used left and right. The whole Batman ant aliasing issue isn't without merit, but insofar as game performance on comparable in game features, I HIGHLY, and I mean HIGHLY doubt a dev is "sabotaging" their game's performance for the sake of nvidia.
The TWIMTBP program involves sending nvidia engineers to help the dev code the game to run fastest on their hardware, not to sabotage the performance of the game on other hardware. If AMD were as marketing savvy and as smart as nvidia, they'd implement similar programs.