Quote Originally Posted by DarthShader View Post
My bad.


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.
+1
Results will differ from card to card, game to game and scene to scene...(whereas something like Intel/AMD Turbo benefits are seen mostly in single thread workloads where performance can be predicted)

PowerTune is more of a reverse turbo.