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[Apocalypse23]

http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/18175/1/

The above link reports that Asus is boasting a 50% performance boost with Voltage Tweak on the GTX 470/480...

Shocking if this is true...

 

[Apocalypse23]

sorry this post should be in the Video section...

Moderators, please move this thread to the Video section, thanks.

 

[BD231]

Great, more theoretical performance figure's on a cardboard box ....

 

[GlacierFreeze]

Marketing BS.

 

[Dark4ng3l]

50% has to be really pushing it. That would put the card way over the 300W limit that it makes you wonder if it's possible for the card to draw 400+ W.

 

[GTaudiophile]

nVidia has their marketing (spin) team running at 110% on this one.

Not good.

 

[tviceman]

nVidia has their marketing (spin) team running at 110% on this one.

Not good.

I don't think nvidia has anything to do with asus making claims about it's software/hardware tweaks.

50% is completely unrealistic and unattainable.

 

[Dark4ng3l]

I don't think nvidia has anything to do with asus making claims about it's software/hardware tweaks.

50% is completely unrealistic and unattainable.

Well it says nothing on the box about the cooling required. Maybe they expect people to watercool it or something.

 

[Daedalus685]

nVidia has their marketing (spin) team running at 110% on this one.

Not good.

It is ASUS' marketing spin though, they claim the same BS on their ATI cards and no one sees even remotely close to those... (unless you voltage tweak on LN2... but that is certainly an 'up to' situation...)

 

[SHAQ]

Heat will probably limit the OC to much less than 50%, but 20-30% would be welcome. Hopefully EVGA will have this feature on their cards.

 

[SunnyD]

repost. I'm not going to bother looking for it.

 

[SolMiester]

If ASUS has that on there box, then they better be able to support and sustain that, or they will be done for false advertising.....

 

[Dark4ng3l]

If ASUS has that on there box, then they better be able to support and sustain that, or they will be done for false advertising.....

Well it says up to. It's not guaranteed or anything. They can always claim that it requires extreme cooling (not included) to get there too.

 

[SolMiester]

Well it says up to. It's not guaranteed or anything. They can always claim that it requires extreme cooling (not included) to get there too.

Surely they would have to be able to prove it...50% is a very big ask, I cant remember any GPU getting near 50%!, can you?

 

[Mr. Pedantic]

Well it says up to. It's not guaranteed or anything. They can always claim that it requires extreme cooling (not included) to get there too.

A 50% increase in clock speeds across the board is pretty hard, from any GPU, running any architecture, on any board, using any cooling system.

 

[SolMiester]

A 50% increase in clock speeds across the board is pretty hard, from any GPU, running any architecture, on any board, using any cooling system.

Thats what I thought....I'm think noose around head...LOL. Would be out of it if true though...certainly have a few ATi followers choking.

 

[Dark4ng3l]

A 50% increase in clock speeds across the board is pretty hard, from any GPU, running any architecture, on any board, using any cooling system.

Well yeah thats obvious. Outside the mendocino celerons I can't remember anything overclocking close to 50% easily.

 

[Mr. Pedantic]

Well, the D0 Core i7 920 is getting there. But 50% is way beyond the overclocking headroom of most GPUs.

Thats what I thought....I'm think noose around head...LOL. Would be out of it if true though...certainly have a few ATi followers choking.

What do you mean? It'd be brilliant!

 

[SHAQ]

Most GPU's OC about 15% with no voltage increases. Another 15-20% can be had by upping the voltage. The other 15-20% can only be obtained with water cooling or better.

 

[dookulooku]

I think they really meant 50% more power consumption.

 

[NoQuarter]

Like I posted in the other thread, looking at their past boxes it seems to imply 50% more overclockability, as in if you could OC 50Mhz without Voltage Tweak, you can OC 75Mhz with..

'300% more overclocking margin', they seem to have ditched the overclocking margin part unless they really mean you can OC that card over 300Mhz.. I have a feeling they're just talking about 50% higher OC margin due to voltage tweak though.

 

[cbn]

It is ASUS' marketing spin though, they claim the same BS on their ATI cards and no one sees even remotely close to those... (unless you voltage tweak on LN2... but that is certainly an 'up to' situation...)

ASUS claims 1050 Mhz OC for HD5850. Thanks to the low 725 Mhz stock frequency this results in a 45% improvement.

 

[slayernine]

Seriously why are you even posting this garbage. You know its marketing, there is no way that card is a full 50% better than its stock speeds.