Excellent, to compare just think of it like this:
The 4870 drops 84 watts at idle
The 5870 drops 161 watts at idle
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DAM those boards take very little power to run people could theoreticly run 4 of them on a 700w psu LOL
ATI 5870
Idle: 27w
Max: 188w
Edit*
Puts things into perspective
The above 2 people need to be put down tbh for not spotting the last line!
This is really interesting, the more power something takes the more heat is produced, so i'm really looking forward to seeing how cool these new cards will be if it only idles at 27w!
You can just imaging the idle temps at 27w LOL
im going to guestimate mid 30s for idle temps.
2.72TFLOPS, very nice. Also, it certainly looks a bit less garish when the pictures are of a reasonable quality. I mean if it weren't for the weird red vents at the back I'd go as far as to say it looked good. Also the heatsink looks nice and meaty, with it consuming a very reasonable amount of power. It seems ATi are on to a winner here, again. Hopefully it doesn't win too hard against GT300 though, eh? That would be boring and probably expensive in the long run.
But yeah, damn, only got my 4870 in February. I doubt that I'll pick one of these up, though.
you can hand it188W for the GPU only does make it sound quite toasty.
dam that looks like the new alien colonys pc game does look real nice.
188W for the GPU only does make it sound quite toasty.
It's a Seasonic which will be perfectly fine.