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Radeon HD 5970 Offers Massive Overclocking Headroom

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Radeon HD 5970 Offers Massive Overclocking Headroom

AMD's dual-GPU flagship graphics accelerator, the Radeon HD 5970, is closer than you think it is. Slated for 18th Nov, it includes every feature that allows AMD to reclaim the performance leadership it yearned for since the beginning of this year. In a series of company slides sourced from XtremeSystems Forums, it is learned that this could be one of the first accelerators which AMD "openly" markets as having a "Massive Headroom" for overclocking. While the clock speeds on the HD 5970 are lower than those on the single-GPU HD 5870, AMD lifted limits on what the driver-level ATI Overdrive software can offer in terms of clock speeds. While the engine (core) and memory speeds are set at 720/1000 MHz, the unlocked ATI Overdrive lets users take the clock speeds all the way up to 1000/1500 MHz. That's 30% for the core, and a stellar 50% for the memory.
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That's looks pretty impressive to me, I'm particularly interested in the vapour chamber and the inclusion of the digital voltage regulation chips.

Let's hope that they get the price with this one right. :p
 
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Very nice!

If this is the case then that'll be one hefty gpu. It's understandable considering there are two 5870 cores that have been lowered clock wise, it's a good thing they've left headroom for some good o/cing.

I am looking forward to the benchies!
 
I suspect they've downclocked it, regardless of if the card can take it or not, just to stay under a 300w TDP.

They most probably figure most enthusiasts will have more than capable enough PSUs if they're planning on overclocking it.
 
How long until the nvidia fanboys come up with something like "ooh you need to do the work yourself to get the clocks to what they should have been in the first place" :rolleyes:
 
Orangey said:
How long until the nvidia fanboys come up with something like "ooh you need to do the work yourself to get the clocks to what they should have been in the first place" :rolleyes:
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I'm sure they'll be along once they've had their nVidios. :p
 
Marine Iguana said:
Ah but i also have a 4870x2 release day card so erm yeah have that :p:D

Looks like it will be a awesome piece of hardware though.
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Uh, you've shot holes in my logic, I don't understand? *collapses*

*blood runs green* :p

I'm hoping it's towards the 2x 5850s price range, it could be the next graphics card I get, money permitting. :o
 
Looks good, looks expensive.

I would have thought they would wait for Nvidia, especially since they can't even get enough chips for the 58 series. But i guess they needed this to finally gain the title of fastest gfx card away form the 295.
 
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