Recent content by Jhruska

There's no practical way to get the pump power consumption *out* of the GPU power consumption at the system level, so yes, the pump power cost would be counted.

You have to benchmark the dGPU in headless mode in order to get accurate memory bandwidth results from it (and you need to turn Aero off). Otherwise any card is going to return memory slowdowns at the end. AMD, NV, 6xx, 7xx, HD 7900, Voodoo 5 6000, Bit Boys, MediaGX, Mach64, doesn't matter. ;)

I wanted to echo what TerionX6 said. If this test isn't run on a headless system with Windows Aero effects disabled, you get errata in the final memory blocks on any GPU. http://i.imgur.com/vrlKM6W.png That link points to a test I ran on a GTX 980 Ti *without* putting it in headless mode...

Gururu, I cant' speak for anyone else, but its not an "Intel Sucks" thread from my viewpoint. Saying that a chip or chip speed grade has an issue where it runs too close to the brink of throttling is different than going to OMFGINTELSUXX0RS AMD FOR TEH WIN route.

That's not necessarily true. First, Prescott has a wider "acceptable" thermal range than any other Intel CPU I'm aware of. I've seen two retail processors tested in the same motherboard at the same time turn in full-load temperatures 5'C apart, even after adjusting and remounting the CPU's...