Quote Originally Posted by SKYMTL View Post
I don't think we are talking about the same thing.

This card is supposedly = 2x HD 5870 cores underclocked to HD 5850 specs.

Bandwidth (on paper) should therefore be ~ the same as two HD 5850 1GB cards.

Therefore this card should = 2x HD 5850 (+/-). However, in higher resolutions in DX10 games, it looks to be getting spanked by two HD 5850 cards.

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As for "driver issues", I don't play along with that. In newer games, sure. However, we are talking about HawX DX10 and Far Cry 2 DX10...two games that were released months and months and months ago. If ATI is having "driver issues", that is simply an embarrassment of epic proportions.
Ok, so lets assume u're hypothese is right that the timings went up. What is the voltage of GDDR5 on the HD5850, u know now that the voltage on the 5970's GDDR5 is 1.10V