Must be true as I used the card flat out for a couple of years, IIRC, with nary a hiccup-and it is still going strong.
#Directx 12 amd full
I had forgotten all of that (my HD 7850 clocked to 1GHz idles 28C and rarely runs hotter than 70C under full load and most of the time I can't hear it).! Both GPUs run with stock cooling, and ATi says that 100C under load is A-OK for that little 5770 GPU-can do that 24/7, according to ATi. The little fan on the 5770 makes a noise like a midget buzz-saw when it hits full power. ) and I was surprised to see how much hotter it runs than my 2GB HD *idles* at 75C and runs all day flat out 100C!. I note that for the first time the HD 5000 series has fallen off the list and will be led out to legacy-driver pasture.This certainly makes sense as the thermal boundaries in the 5000 series were stressed to start with-I put my old 1GB HD 5770 in a "new" desktop build for the wife recently after her abominable laptop gave her one too many problems (she's privileged to get my hand-me-downs. Should be interesting to see how much of this shakes out & how much is just PR.
As such, having to have new hardware for DX12 is not going to be as critical for support as it was in the past, I'm guessing.however, I'm peripherally concerned with what happens to GPU/CPU clocks & temps when suddenly a program or game is flexing more circuitry per clock than has ever been true in the past. Most of the outstanding features of DX12 would seem to have to do with using current CPU & GPU hardware to a far greater degree than it has been used in the past-using multicore GPUs & CPUs much more efficiently than was possible through DX11/OpenGL 4.x.