Quote Originally Posted by Boissez View Post
High speed GDDR5 consumes power like a mofo - it's the reason the 4870 had such a horrendous idle power consumption. And also the reason the 5970 only has 1000 Mhz GDDR.
that doesnt make sense, then why does the 5870 have such low idle numbers with even faster memory? i find it hard to believe that clocking gddr5 memory higher increases the power consumption notably... a 5870 consumes less under load than a gtx285 iirc, and dont tell me the gpu is running that cool that it can even make up for the gddr5 consuming more power than the gddr3 on the 285...