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No different from Nvidia's PCI-e computing card being passively cooled:
Don't forget first shown card being non-functional fake...You can't beat the nvidia 480 memes
AMD doesn't do automatic throttling (only throttling based on temps) hence consumption jumping considerably from games to Furmark.
Wow, look at the Fury in Furmark! Nuclear power station required!
I hope Vega is more efficient
As non-reference models are the most fashionable ones and favoured over reference models nowadays "so rare it's super power" -common sense should tell higher consumption of factory OCs has to be accounted for.480 was back of pack in terms of performance per watt and you've picked a factory boosted model to compare to the nvidia stock model (apples/bananas springs to mind)?
Look at that stock R9 390 if you want to talk about waste of gaming power.
Cheers, OC have them listed now under the FirePro banner
It's not clear if there is a clockspeed diffference. Not OCs fault as it's similar to the info posted previously.
If it needs that kind of power, it needs to be bring at least 1080Ti performance, which I cannot see why it won't. Unless it really is just designed primarily for compute and gaming side was a afterthought.
