Quote Originally Posted by Vardant View Post
It wasn't written by him.
My bad.

Quote Originally Posted by SKYMTL View Post
What would you want:

A) A technology that throttles clocks (ie: AMD's PowerTune) to ensure a given TDP is met.

B) A technology that has been given enough headroom so it increases clocks to ensure an ASIC always stays at or near a given TDP.

I know which one I would choose if the rumors are correct.
First, I was just pointing out the boost will make accurate benching a bit harder. Not saying which one is better.

Second, both technologies are basicly the same thing. All you need to do is boost the clocks solidly but leave powertune limits low. When an application will put a load high enough not to reach the set clocks, it will appear like the card is boosting the clocks as high as possible to meet target TDP. Exactly the same thing. Except it mechanism is incompattible with marketting. Throotling = boo. Boosting = Yay.

I am betting Powertune is going to be done like that on the 8XXX cards, possibly even on a 7970 refresher if it comes.