PowerColor Claims Significant Power Savings with Go! Green Series
PowerColor Claims Significant Power Savings with Go! Green Series
Posted 06/19/2009 at 6:30am
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PowerColor this week announced a new series of videocards it says are "environmentally friendly and cost efficient to the consumer." Kicking off the new Go! Green series is a pair of ATI cards - the HD 4650 and HD 4350.
Both cards come equipped with PowerColor's custom Silent Cooling Solution (SCS) passive heatsink, with the HD 4650 version adding heatpipes to the mix (SCS3). Partially as a result, PowerColor claims its HD 4650 consumes 38 percent less power than an Nvidia GeForce 9500GT videocard, while the HD 4350 boasts a 24 percent power savings over the Nvidia GeForce 8400GS. Likewise, the HD 4650 and HD 4350 offer up to 22 percent and 36 percent better performance than each one's respective Nvidia equivalent, PowerColor claims.
Availability is expected in July, but no word yet on price.
Image Credit: PowerColor
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ZayLay
June 19, 2009 at 10:13am
the power saved is probably only as much as the fan would use. how hot will this thing get under full load without a fan. might kill the life of the card if it can't sustain full load gaming for too long without bursting at the seams.
ONaE
June 19, 2009 at 9:16am
"Enviromentally Friendly" Videocards are an oxymoron True hippies don't even use PCs =D But seriously, if you really care about the earth go salvage the dump for your computer components. Let's not pretend PC gaming
is good for the enviroment.
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Ogdin
June 19, 2009 at 7:47am
The big question is how much less power do these cards use when compared to standard 4650/4350's .
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