hwinfo32 reports on 4870-crossfire

The thing that bugs me is that it reports different values for "Memory" description of the GPUs. One of them would be "400" while the other is "200". Does this mean that one of my two 4870s is not up on par? I look at the log and it seems like both loaded up to 99% during heavy gaming.
Can somebody shed some lights on this and explain what the "memory" means and why they are different?

Thanks in advance

 

Hi
Best asking Mumak the maker of hwinfo32 on his thread.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/win...uestions-reports-suggestions-discussions.html

 

Hey chief,

Yeh thats normal for Dual GPU setups. One card will always be running different clocks to the other. The clocks will always be ramping up or down depending on what tasks you are doing in the windows OS area.

Once your in gaming mode though if the game properly supports Crossfire then both GPUs will hit max clocks and run on the max clock settings. It is harder to see this because once you alt tab out of the game the clocks will immediately drop for one of the cards. Or sometimes even both cards.

You can use GPU-z log file to monitor the ramping up and down of the GPU clocks. It will log the clock speeds each time you are doing something different. You will be able to see when it ramped up and down.

I'm not sure how HWiNFO32 detects the clocks however it should be correct.

Cheers.

 

Thanks for the replies. I was wondering too and tried to Alt+Tab out of the game to see how the GPUs ramped up. But no clue because the values drop down to normal almost immediately. I will try CPU-Z log and see how they both performs during gaming.

Thanks

 

You can also leave GPU-z 4.7 running when your playing games. Just tick the "log to file" on the sensors page. That way it will be recording stats from your sensors page whenever GPU-z is running. So then you can run a game play it for ever how long you like then after you quit it you can go and view the log to see where the clocks ramped up and so forth.

Cheers.