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Enhanced 5970 out soon?

Asus aren't the only company doing an overclocked 5970:

Say hello to the Sapphire 5970 OC 4GB

http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/17873/1/

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The cooler is 3 slots wide, but it's Arctic cooling, and it should be reasonably quiet.
 
A little less extravagant looking than the first but I think I prefer this one a little over the other. I'd expect it to run cooler as well.
 
"850MHz core clock, 1200MHz memory clock and 4GB of GDDR5"

Is there anything out there that would utilize all of that?

I mean this is overkill right
 
That's 2 GB per core, and 1GB can easily be fully utilized. I believe Crysis Warhead was maxing out at like 900 MB vram usage when running benchmarks. And I mean this card will clearly not have to be replaced within 1-2 years.
 
Theres probably people who will buy them to play multiple instances of a game at the same time too (not uncommon with mmos) - which eats VRAM.
 
Funny how when we were talking about nVidia everyone was very down on how exceeding 300watt would cause such big problems, never be "allowed" and not within the standard etc. and here we have a card thats clearly going to exceed it and everyones all hyped about it... love the double standards.
 
Rroff said:
Funny how when we were talking about nVidia everyone was very down on how exceeding 300watt would cause such big problems, never be "allowed" and not within the standard etc. and here we have a card thats clearly going to exceed it and everyones all hyped about it... love the double standards.
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Yeah I was thinking that - I'm pretty sure it's just a technical limitation of the 6+8-pin configuration rather than some mysterious limitation set by the PCI-E organisation. Of course you wouldn't want to breach that limit as very few PSUs are capable of supplying a card over 8+8-pins or more reliably. Then again I can also see why the double standard is somewhat acceptable in this case, as it's a one-off stupendously overclocked card as opposed to a reference card. As a reference card it would be a total joke.
 
Yes, gotta love the GFX forum. <:

That being said it's fun to go with the stream, a few years back I hated ATI, now I find every opportunity to make fun of Nvidia when joking around with my friends. ;)
 
I think most people laugh at nVidia these days... what I don't get is the difference between the people here who poke fun at them and the ones (that deffinatly aren't a minority) that seem to be taking it very personally and sticking the knife in every which way and not just into nVidia but anyone who happens to have even a slightly pro-nVidia opinion.
 
Rroff said:
Funny how when we were talking about nVidia everyone was very down on how exceeding 300watt would cause such big problems, never be "allowed" and not within the standard etc. and here we have a card thats clearly going to exceed it and everyones all hyped about it... love the double standards.
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The big difference is that one card is a dual gpu card and the other is a single gpu which if rumours are to be believed won't be much faster than the ati single gpu but is reported to used way more power. This new 5970 will be way faster than any fermi as will the original. I see no real double standards as fermi is looking like it will use way more power, run much hotter and come with less warranty than a 5870 with no real performance gain. This new 5970 may well have the more power and heat problems but crucially it will offer much more gaming power than whats around when compared with single gpu cards.
 
TheRealDeal said:
The big difference is that one card is a dual gpu card and the other is a single gpu which if rumours are to be believed won't be much faster than the ati single gpu but is reported to used way more power. This new 5970 will be way faster than any fermi as will the original. I see no real double standards as fermi is looking like it will use way more power, run much hotter and come with less warranty than a 5870 with no real performance gain. This new 5970 may well have the more power and heat problems but crucially it will offer much more gaming power than whats around when compared with single gpu cards.
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Thing was - single card or dual card - people were making a big song and dance about how it couldn't exceed 300watt or it would break the PCI-e standard (which is rubbish but thats another story) and using other aspects of this to have a dig... yet when this card comes along no one bats an eyelid about how it would "break" some standard.

Not that it really bothers me anyhow as I know no such standard exists and I'm not too bothered how much power a GPU uses aslong as its reasonable for the performance.
 
Yea i agree with what you are saying but i think many peoples main problem with fermi and power usuage is the performance you are getting when comparing with a 5870. I still want to wait for release though as none of this is even confirmed. It is looking pretty bad though for this first version of fermi.
 
HazardO said:
Looks like Arctic cooling are claiming their 5970 cooler (the one on the 4G sapphire 5970 OC), will knock an incredible 44C off the GPU temps versus the stock cooler. That is pretty extreme if true:

http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/17936/1/
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I wish you wouldn't post stuff like that as now I'm starting to consider it... :(. Do I really want to risk a £550 card for a bit more overclocking headroom? If I do then I'll probably wait until the next gen of DX11 cards are out (from both nVidia and ATi) so that if anything goes wrong I can use it as an excuse to upgrade... hopefully prices will be cheaper as well should anything go wrong. Grrr.
 
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