| ethomaz said: No. You are right... his example show that the HD 6970 consumes more than HD 5870 using the same 40nm process. The only thing that can make the Volcanic uses less power is a new process... 20nm or 22nm. Volcanic Islands seens to use a revision of GCN 1 (GCN 1.1?) in 28nm... GCN 2.0 only when then 20/22nm get ready for production. |
My point went completely over your head, but nice attempt anyway.
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/293?vs=294
Performance+die size per watt is better on the 6900 series, note: That includes both the 6950 and 6970.
| JEMC said: I hope they can do it. And you'll upgrade? Why don't you wait until their new architecture (the 9xxx cards will use GCN 2.0 which is "only" a revision if I'm not mistaken)? |
Because I can use every ounce of Performance I can get. :)
I'll throw my 3x 7970 cards into my AMD machine and sell off the 6950's in that rig which will make up for some of the price.
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