1080p 30fps or 720p 60fps?

[selnor]

JEMC said:

selnor said:

I saw a chart somewhere that showed 2 version of 7970. With one being 110w.

The "new" 7970 is a regular 7970 that runs at 1GHz instead of 925 GHz. And that makes it use more W under load, so I have to ask:

Are you sure that the consumptions you saw were at load? Could they be at idle?

A system with a 7970 uses 110 W at idle, see Anandtech (at the bottom, idle 113 W for the old model and 111 W for the new one, but 391 W for the old and 429 W for the new one running Metro 2033).

I'll see if I can find it later. I have to pop out now. But I am pretty sure it was a redesign using less watts and different figures not performing as optimal as before but still beastly.