Wednesday, January 21st 2009
Details of the 9600 GT Green Edition Leaked
Expreview, has got hold of information which details NVIDIA's new 9600GT Green Edition GPU. It appears to be nothing more than a BIOS tweak, but as such has resulted in a 37W (39%) drop in power consumption, allowing the card to function without the need of an external power connector. This has resulted in a new board revision number P562. The memory clocks remain the same at 900 MHz, but the core drops to 600 MHz, with 1500 MHz on the shaders. By doing this, NVIDIA have been able to drop the core voltage from 1.1V to 1.0V, most likely providing the biggest saving in power.
Source:
Expreview
18 Comments on Details of the 9600 GT Green Edition Leaked
9600GT is only 65nm AFAIK
Correct me if I'm wrong but if you underclock anything won't it consume less power?
External connector or not, less MHz should result in less power draw no?
forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=67004
If they had dropped the core voltage, got rid of the external power connector, and kept the same core speed as before then I'd be impressed.
Or am I still missing something? :confused:
You could quite easily do the same thing on a current 55nm 9600GT
Nice performance level with relatively low power draw. In CrossfireX, two are more powerful than a 4850.
It's neat that they can drop consumption that much with modest drops in speed and core voltage.... but I've gotta wonder whether this is really useful. If they make this card into a passive/low profile card then it gets much more appetizing, but if it's using the same old cooler and size it seems like you're getting a slightly slower card to get your green ePeen going. There's relatively few applications which can't afford the 40W difference between the cards but still need a midrange discrete card.