http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDe ... 320&depa=0
I knew that the Radeon 9600 ran cool and performed well, but I had no idea it ran this cool. For reference these are the system specs:
- Athlon XP t-bred @ 2100mhz and 1.75v
- MSI nForce1 mobo, onboard sound/lan active
- WD 80mb SE 7200rpm hd
- Fortron 120mm 300w PS
- Radeon 9600 per above link, running at 390/200 (out of box 325/185)
- at Windows XP desktop: 108w
- folding@home: 125w
- 3dMark2001: 131w
Therefore , from 0% --> 100% load for..
- cpu: draw of 17w
- video: draw of 6w
converting from "wall" to "inside computer voltage".. adjust for power supply efficiency @ 67.5%.. 6w * 0.675 = 4w
FOUR WATTS UNDER LOAD?! And remember, this is a video card that has full DirectX9 support, runs current brand new games at very respectable frame rates, and delivers near Ti-4600 performance in 3dMark2001 for older games (~8500).
Furthermore, My Mk. I finger confirms what the kill-a-watt says: I can barely get this card to get WARM under any kind of 3D testing, and that's with an extremely modest heatsink. For comparsion purposes, the Ti 4200 in my wife's computer with the ginormous Zalman HP80A heatsink/heatpipe gets borderline hot all over, at the windows desktop, much less under load.
These are amazing numbers.
More anecdotal evidence to support the ultra-cool-running nature of the 9600 exists in this tech-report article:
http://www.tech-report.com/etc/2003q1/a ... dex.x?pg=1
the desktop and laptop versions of the 9600 are EXTREMELY similar. Same tech, same process, same featureset.. etc.the Mobility and desktop versions of the Radeon 9600 are very similar. Like the desktop Radeon 9600, the Mobility Radeon 9600 is a 4x1-pipe design featuring two vertex engines and support for vertex and pixel shaders 2.0. The chip also features full DirectX 9 compatibility and all the 128-bit internal precision of ATI's DirectX 9-compliant Radeons. The desktop Radeon 9600's lossless color and Z-compression schemes are also featured in the Mobility Radeon 9600s along with up to 6X antialiasing and 16X anisotropic filtering.
Like the desktop Radeon 9600 family, the Mobility Radeon 9600s are built on a 0.13-micron manufacturing process that ATI claims it has had no problems migrating to. Though ATI has yet to confirm how many transistors make up the desktop Radeon 9600, the Mobility Radeon 9600s weigh in at only 60 million transistors; quite a remarkable transistor count considering that the Mobility Radeon 9600s not only support all the features of their desktop siblings, but also a few Mobility-specific features that aren't present on desktop versions of the chips.
Can anyone else with a kill-a-watt and a Radeon 9600 confirm these numbers?