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

[Macadamia]

Hardware should never fail due to software giving it valid instructions, end of story. Period. You whiners cant cope with the idea of having faulty hardware.

I guess you never heard of Intel/AMD's in-house power viruses.

Although it might be an insane case of the ALUs not being TEX limited at all, plus heavy ROP utilization we're seeing here.
No, a GPGPU application will NOT get to this level of utilization.

To every one saying that's the application flute...then why don't we see any other NV cards fail? why don't we see any other OLD ATI cards fail? why its only HD 4870 / HD 4890 ? why not GTX 260 or HD 4650 for example? its logic every other card works BUT the HD4870/HD4890 and some of them whit a good quality PCB works so in logic again it the application flute? of course not if every other card works then there is something wrong with this one..end of story.
so please less blabla chit chat more testing..
thank you.

Try it with 4770/4650. I bet you'd see an INSANE power draw increase over the general load.