The most expensive card in the new 5 series DirectX 11 ATI graphics cards, the 5870×2, appears to produce a massive amount of heat proving to make it very hard to cool effectively. The TDP is set at a massive 376W and although ATI are working on resolving the heat issues, a drop in speed for the GPUs seem inevitable to drop the heat levels down.
Tag Archives: TDP
Intel Arrandale CPU Announced with 18W TDP
September 11, 2009 – 9:28 am
Q1, 2010 is set to bring about Intel’s ultra low voltage dual core platform; the current leader in terms of voltage is the SU9600 notebook but it will be replaced by the dual core i7 640UM.
AMD To Drop TDP of Phenom II X4 965 3.4GHz
September 7, 2009 – 8:29 am
The arrival of the Phenom II X4 965 was heralded as a great success making it the fastest process on the market in terms of core speed coming in a 3.4GHz and replacing the 955 BE at 3.2GHz. However, with a Thermal Design Power of 140W, many users were less than pleased as cooling the CPU becomes that much harder; even the high performing core i7 range of CPUs have a lower TDP of 130W.