Quote Originally Posted by purefun65 View Post
lokk im not trying to annoy anyone. im very surprised at the power it consumes per per perfomance return.
GTX 480 has the best performance per watt in folding and DX11 Unigine. You see what you want.

The performance per watt in "legacy apps" is lower than 5870 for the same reason it is higher in newer apps. Fermi has all that excess hardware to make the new apps run faster. Pick your poison. Better old or better new. Nothing wrong with either depending on what you do.