Quote Originally Posted by Mech0z View Post
Might be the HD5870 as well, they seem to have different VID
let's push a little further then:

He is pulling 43A, we are pulling 51A, 8A more
His avg VDDC is 55C, ours is 59.5C, 4.5C more
So we are definitely heating up our card much higher

Yet, we show 39C GPU temps vs. his 42C.

There is also a time issue: his Furmark test is 3 1/2mn, and we don't know if his loop had enough time to stabilize before that. Ours is taken after 6 1/2mn, immediately after we ran Vantage. So we can assume that our temps were fairly stable, whereas we don't know if his were. I'm sure he can clarify that though. However to be fair in a comparative, both tests should exhibit at least 20~30 minutes of constant load.

You draw your own conclusions anyways