Caporegime
From AMD's Thracks
Thracks, really?There's a lot of doom and gloom around the 95C temperature, because people are used to a world where the product is designed to run as cold as possible... but that's not the world we're living in with these units. The doom and gloom is based on an old viewpoint.
95C is the optimal temperature that allows the board to convert its power consumption into meaningful performance for the user. Every single component on the board is designed to run at that temperature throughout the lifetime of the product.
If you throttle the temperature down below that threshold, then the board must in turn consume less power to respect the new temperature limit. Consuming less power means lowering vcore and engine clock, which means less performance.
You want to take full advantage of product TDP to maximize performance, and that is accomplished with a 95C ideal operating temperature for the 290 and 290X.
The thing throttles at 95c~ you get the best performance by keeping it under that tempriture because it down clocks at anything over that.
If it runs at 900Mhz with temps of 95c then its not going to get to 1Ghz, put a better cooler on it and it will run 900Mhz at 80c, maybe 1100Mhz at 95c.
Look, its a great GPU, the green crowed said you couldn't do it, they said you couldn't make a GPU to match a Titan because it would be to big and to power hungry.
What you made was a Titan beating GPU thats actually smaller, no one saw that coming and its a big fat #### you to your critics.
But why, why oh why did you then not quite go far enough and give it the cooler it deserves and frankly needs? blower type coolers are not very efficient in cooling the actual chip, and the one you put on this is just a silly inadequate little block of aluminium, its the same thing as the ref- 7970.
Why did you not give it the 7990's cooler, it would have had a higher delta giving it more voltage and clocking room to reach 95c, end result: even higher performance.
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