Captain_Tom said:
fatslob-:O said:
Captain_Tom said:
Pemalite said:
Captain_Tom said:
So have you tried overclocking the memory higher, or am I just lucky mine overclocks so well? I get massive gains from it...
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I haven't been game to push the memory harder as there is no heatsinks or active cooling on them. :P
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All I can say is that memory overclocking in the 7000 series makes a massive difference. I have found that if you average the +Core and +Mem, it equals your gain in performance. On top of that, overclocked memory uses FAR less extra power and creates far less heat than overclocking the core.
Case and point: My 1165/1805 overclock beats my 1205/1650 overclock and uses 30w less of power. Look into it... ;)
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Is the GCN architecture really that bandwidth starved ? I thought that wasn't too much of an issue seeing as how they already have a massive amount of bandwidth. :P
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Call it what you want! I see similar results from most Nvidia cards. Also keep in mind this "Starved" card nets me a 30%+ performance boost over stock. Yes a $300 7970 can compete with a $650 780...
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Huh, I guess you can say that most recent cards performance is limited by the memory performance rather than raw shading power.
