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Technology Stocks : Advanced Micro Devices - Moderated (AMD)
AMD 208.04+0.2%2:58 PM EST
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To: TimF who wrote (200173)6/2/2006 5:16:32 PM
From: dougSF30Read Replies (2) of 275872
 
Actually, Conroe XE @ 2.93 apparently uses less than 80W, 65W has been reported:

The dual-core chip ran at 2.93 gigahertz and it chewed through the game FEAR without any trouble. It ran at a minimum of 110 frames per second on the FEAR benchmark, with 213 FPS average and 531 maximum. That was faster than a single-core Pentium D chip running at 3.7 gigahertz. Then they did a ray tracing demo that performed at 1095.40 pixels per second. Lastly, they showed they could compress a 25 megabytes AVI file in 44 seconds. The chip ran at a standard 65 watts, but Tuhy said that the Extreme Edition would be able to run at up to 130 watts.

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Tuhy said that a 3.2 gigahertz version would be coming later this year. He showed it running on a different machine which had liquid cooling. But it wasn't a refrigerated machine. The fan was louder and there was more air flow in this machine. It ran the FEAR demo at 109 minimum FPS, 218 average and 561 maximum. The ray tracing demo ran at 1191.39 pixels per second, and the compression demo took 41 seconds. That machine was running at around 85 watts or so.

Then they overclocked the machine to 3.5 gigahertz, and they cranked down the memory to 533 megahertz. The Fear demo ran at 121 FPS minimum, 228 average, and 590 maximum. The ray tracing demo scored 1291.35 pixels per second, and the compression now took 39 seconds.


So there's a sliding scale:

XE 2.93 = 65W
XE 3.20 = 85W

130W probably gets them to 3.8 or 4GHz.
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