Radeon 5970 Overclocking: The VRM Temperature Bottleneck

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It's a ridiculous comparison, IMO. At stock the 5970 can run these apps no problem and blows away even an overclocked 295. And you can easily clock the 5970 to 800~900 and play most games just fine, up to ~1000mhz in some cases. After playing with one I can guarantee I would pick a 5970 over a 295 100% of the time.

The 5870 vs 295 comparison is reasonable since they have about the same performance. It's not ATI's fault that Nvidia needs two gpus to get there right now. You want a card with beefy VRMs that can match a 295 in terms of speed and overclockability, well there it is.

Now you are saying that NVIDIA should have made the 295 faster (as in can see the future 11 months down the road) and it's not ATI's fault? You do realize the 295 came out 11 months ago and even the 5870 couldn't knock it off (which was a shock to most). No one in here has said once that the 295 is the same performance as the 5970, we are talking about heat output and the 295 is the highest available right now from NVIDIA and the only other 2 GPU single card being made.

People still continue to try and turn this thread into performance 295 vs 5970, but that has nothing to do with what the thread is about. Thermal complaints by AnAndTech is what this thread is about. Everyone realizes the 5970 is fastest, it's no secret. I mean hell that should have been obvious when the 5870 hit, since the 5870 could knock off the 285 by a large margin and the 295 is only made up of 2x GTX 275. This let everyone know that the next X2 card from ATI would take the crown back to the red side.