Quote Originally Posted by fragmasterMax View Post
these use less power than the 4870, which i'm (100%) sure uses alot less power than the 2900xt.
Really?



At load it uses just a little more. With an extra TPC though, use the 260 number + 280 number * 0.5. It's essentially a GTX270.

And yes, it exceeds the 2900XT.

Idle power on the 260 is great, but you can underclock the 4850/4870 to 300/150 Core and lower RAM clocks too, which should make it on par. They didn't do it because you get a black flicker due to GDDR5 RAM autotraining again.