You have a link for that? Because everything I've found suggests its actually lower power consumption than GDDR3 (20-30%), but perhaps those numbers are relative to performance.
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You have a link for that? Because everything I've found suggests its actually lower power consumption than GDDR3 (20-30%), but perhaps those numbers are relative to performance.
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I actually don't have a link, this is what I've herd informally from a couple people but I could be wrong. Where did you find information that suggested GDDR5 was lower power consumption then GDDR3?
Actually, when comparing 4870 X2 to 4870 Crossfire, only the quantity of vram is different. It's GDDR5 to GDDR5.
Freak'n Big Panda
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hmmmm well I will double check tomorrow. Maybe the GDDR5 interface on the chip side is what sucks the majority of the power?
I read your post way too fast, for some reason I thought you were comparing 4850x2 to 4870x2 and saying that the lower amount VRam on the former (assuming here that it's 512x2) will explain the power consumption delta. Lol sorry about that, i've been studying all day and my brain feels like apple sauce :/
I read your post way too fast, for some reason I thought you were comparing 4850x2 to 4870x2 and saying that the lower amount VRam on the former (assuming here that it's 512x2) will explain the power consumption delta. Lol sorry about that, i've been studying all day and my brain feels like apple sauce :/
Because there some GPU-parts (X-bar) bounded to the GDDR5 clock.
GDDR5 chips are below 1.5V and and have 2.5W TDP @ 2.5GHz.
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2309887,00.asp
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