ATI Trims Power Consumption of High-End Graphics Cards
Posted by malebolgia on 03 February 2006 - 22:41 · 14 comments & 3336 views
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#1 Posted by Coolme on 03 Feb 2006 - 22:55
- When did they do this? Also, is this already applied on x1900xt/xtx cards?
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#2 Posted by soypowered on 03 Feb 2006 - 23:42
- Why not? Less power consumption is always a good thing.
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#3 Posted by marcpodi on 04 Feb 2006 - 00:08
- but it's still over 100W... still a lot... I'll wait when consumption drops below 50W.
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#4 Posted by cooljerk_dv on 04 Feb 2006 - 02:13
- the 9800 pro i still have runs at 80w. I'm glad they are trying to reduce power consumption. Go ATI!
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#5 Posted by DJ Prem on 04 Feb 2006 - 08:48
- Show why ATI is the king.
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#5.1 Posted by ShiFtedReaLity on 04 Feb 2006 - 14:17
- lets not start a flame ok??
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#6 Posted by vacs on 04 Feb 2006 - 10:08
- Unfortunately this is all markenting blabla and nvidia still offers GPUs which consume way less power than ATI's current offering.
The key is not employing power saving technologies but designing a highly efficient architecture which itself does not consume as much as power. But this won't happen because ATI choosed brute force over efficiency and brute force almost always needs more power than more "clever" architectures like the one nvidia uses.
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#7 Posted by Solarix on 05 Feb 2006 - 04:35
- -cut- stupid quoting system
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#8 Posted by MNS on 05 Feb 2006 - 05:08
- well, if you have the cash to splurge on a 500$ card, then a few extra bucks of electric bills shouldn't concern you.
it's like going to Tony Romas and ordering a diet Coke. you know -- to even things out. ha. -
#8.1 Posted by Relativity_17 on 05 Feb 2006 - 11:37
- The more energy fed into the system, the hotter it gets. Heat is responsible for increasing the rate at which components degrade. It isn't just about saving a couple bucks a month - computers just aren't made to serve as space heaters.
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#9 Posted by Marc Podito on 15 Apr 2006 - 17:22
- basta pag di bababa ng 100W ung power consumption di ko rin bibilhin yan!
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When X-bit labs originally measured power consumption of high-end Radeon X1800 XT graphics card back in September, 2005, it was about 112W under maximum recently, the absolute maximum for that time. However, when the measurements were carried out later, the power consumption dropped to slightly below 103W on the same graphics card with the same BIOS version, but on a newer driver.