Quote Originally Posted by Chumbucket843 View Post
5870 is a great card but that doesnt mean that the gtx480 will be bad. if power rumors are true that probably means good overclocking. the high power consumption is from leakage power which is great for clockspeed but bad for efficiency.
Does this apply to TSMC? I seem to remember the higher leakage parts being better overclockers on the AMD on Intel side, this is also true of GPUs?