Radeon 5970 Overclocking: The VRM Temperature Bottleneck

[LedHed]

Is this at stock, or have you tried to overclock it?

that is at 1050mV and the clocks in my profile, but I will admit I have custom fan profiles for the card to keep those temperatures using RivaTuner.

and all this talk about how ATI is innovating and original why NVIDIA isn't is just customer bias. If no one remembers let me remind you, when the new 5870 came out NVIDIA still had the fastest card over a year after it was released (295) not until the 5970 hit the market (in very very small quantities) could AMD claim the performance crown back. So it appears NVIDIA is sticking to their guns/architecture rather than trying every new standard available to try and catch up (like AMD with the 4 Series). It took AMD a full 13 months (even w/ GDDR5/DX10.1/DX11) after the 295 was launched to catch up with it. Let me go ahead and avoid the fanboy comment by noting the 295 was the fastest video card in the world up until the 5970, me owning one has nothing to do with this fact.

So it appears to me NVIDIA was sticking with a very solid design and using it as a placeholder until the GT300 is ready for the masses, seems like a very good idea to me instead of rushing a product simply for profits in a non-competitive market (DX11). If any ATI fan boys would read about the GT300/Fermi they would see it is a completely new approach to GPUs and is by far more innovative than anything ATI has done in the last few years.