Quote Originally Posted by saaya View Post
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...
its downclocked quite a bit. 4870 idle was from that and terrible power gating. its ~3 watts per IC with gddr5 and there are 12 on the 480. thats 35 watts. tesla was delayed because they are waiting for hynix 2Gb IC's. even then with 6GB you are still consuming a lot of power.