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AMD 790FX chipset consumes only 8W

ATI WON QUITE a lot of OEM designs recently, and the reason for that is thermal characteristics of the products that are about to come out.

First, the R600 die-shrink with a lot of changes inside is eating than 100W less than the previous part. Now it seems all the chipsets the company is planning to launch during this quarter will consume ever-dwindling amounts of power. This includes both 790FX, the high-end part and 780G, the part with integrated graphics.

While Nvidia also cut graphics power consumption by an impressive amount of watts, looking at the chipset side paints a dire image.
In a battle of high-end chipsets - the Nforce 780 versus 790FX - it will be interesting to see how the MCP+BR04 (48W TDP) battles against the RD790 NorthBridge. This eats only 8W and is a native PCIe 2.0 chip. This is a 40W difference And even when Southbridge chips are calculated, ATI's own RD790+SB600 (later SB700) combination is a winner for low-power systems.


http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquir...-790fx-eats-8w

Come già confermato in questa notizia il nuvo chipset AMD 790FX consumerà molto poco grazie al processo produttivo a 65nm.
The Inquirer confronta il TDP del chipset Nvidia Serie 780ASLI in uscita per il 12 novembre con AMD 790FX; il risultato è la vittoria netta del nuovo chipset AMD: 8W contro i 48W della soluzione Nvidia.
Cè da considerare però che il 780ASLI avrà integrato nel die una IGP integrata compatibile con la tecnologia Hybrid SLI e il Southbridge con 6 Porte SATA2, USB 2.0, e lan 10/100/1000, mentre la soluzione AMD sarà basata sulla più classica configurazione Northbridge+Southbridge (790FX + SB600).