Independently from 3DMark06 being a synthetic benchmark, performance seems to be good, keeping in mind a HD5870 reaches a 20k score only. Is there any reason for this to be related also with rumoured memory advantage? For some reason I dont see 3DMark06 being that memory hungry, as it was released almost 5 years ago.
But in 4x0 bench, CPU is at 4.2Ghz and we know 3D Mark 06 is quite sensitive to CPU speed... though if true, idle temps are good and nowhere near what Charlie claimed.