OCCT 3.1.0 shows HD4870/4890 design flaw - they can't handle the new GPU test !

[RaZz!]

I think we have a disconnect here. People don't use burn in programs to see how they stack against them but as a gauge of how their video card will perform in games. This is why you are not able to openly receive constructive criticism (based on how you've responded so far).

Since this is your new test method people will naturally pay close attention on the legitimacy of it based on what (and how) you decide to deliver the information.

And your car analogy is not correct. There are many cars that have a "top speed" based on the speedometer but aren't necessarily able to achieve it.

So in a nutshell we come to a question how these results effect the end user. So far, you haven't fully convinced (at least me) how we are negatively impacted in the games we play.

but isn't testing cpus with linpack or prime95 the same? you're saying the load produced by occt is "unrealistic", but isn't every benchmark that puts heavy load on a specific type of hardware "unrealistic"?

you can overclock your cpu and run windows and play games without any problems, but when running prime95 for a few minutes the test eventually aborts because of calculating errors. there are a lot of people who consider an overclock, that's not prime-stable, as a crap overclock. it didn't pass the testing methods, period.
it's the same with occt's gpu benchmark. it puts heavy load on the gpu in the same "unrealistic" way e.g. linpack does for cpus.

...and we're talking about gpus with stock clocks compared to overclocked cpus.

maybe other applications, e.g. the folding@home, for scientific calculations (especially in the future with opencl and such?) get more and more optimized and will reach these limits as well. who knows?

*edit* just tested it with my 4850 without any problems, so i can confirm that presumably only 4870/90 are affected. however, the gpu is getting really hot . even with the fanspeed of 75% it reached 80°C within a minute.