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5850 Clocking
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Assuming that you're not bottlenecked by CPU, overclocking GPU on the 5850 gains almost linear performance up to 850-900 MHz where it almost matches performance of a stock 5870. After that sweetspot the overclocking gains are lower, you can easily check it using any newer 3D Mark (Vantage/11) or Unigine Heaven and game benchmarks.
Memory modules on reference cards are mostly the same on 5850s and 5870s so they usually hit the same overclocking mark of 1200-1300 MHz. Make sure that you compare the max stable memory overclock with something below it, memory will throttle back when reaching its limits.
Memory modules on reference cards are mostly the same on 5850s and 5870s so they usually hit the same overclocking mark of 1200-1300 MHz. Make sure that you compare the max stable memory overclock with something below it, memory will throttle back when reaching its limits.
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