Quote Originally Posted by Manicdan View Post
so im off by less than 10%
does that mean this card should be 20-30% shorter than a 5870 while consuming alot more power? seems like its gonna be super loud to me
the 5850 has great noise to perf ratio, which is what this is looking like for size, no way they can do the same thing while adding in 75+ watts
The 5870 is not very very efficient cooling. A bit beautifull but not efficient. It draw 200w, so 230w is not much more, even shorter i don't see any problem.

Maybe it's shorter because power stage is much more efficient, and pcb is 10 layers so no need of more pcb.

If this GPU kick ass, a good $/W and $/fps ratios, why i would cry for a short pcb ? ...