5870 Bottleneck Investigation (CPU and/or Memory Bandwidth)

[JimmyH]

Interesting read: http://firingsquad.com/hardware/ati_...ng/default.asp

Thanks for the link. Doesn't look like the 5870 is that bandwidth limited here. But it seems bottlenecked by something else. Most games return less gains than the increase on the core and memory. Poor drivers? Can't help thinking that the impressive power consumption of this card is actually could be the shaders sitting around doing nothing.

Anandtech power test with occt shows the 5870 actually uses alot more power than the other reviews suggest when loaded with a highly optimized application.

http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3643&p=26