PowerColor’s Eco-friendly HD 5750 Consumes 21% Less Power
PowerColor has been focusing on developing environmentally friendly graphics cards, and their green lineup has recently got a new member – Go! Green HD 5750.
The card uses passive heatsink with four heatpipes, and requires no external power connector, consuming nearly 21% less power. It features 1GB GDDR5 memory, core/memory clock of 700MHz/1150MHz, DVI/HDMI/DisplayPort connectivities, and ATI Eyefinity support.
The PowerColor Go! Green HD 5750 retails for Yen15970 in Japan according to AKIBA, which is around $174.
February 22nd, 2010 at 4:42 pm
Club3D has a similar card also passively cooled and it does idle in like 80 degrees Celcius. Bit high for a gpu, so I’d rather go with an actively cooled solution. High GPU temperatures aren’t very healthy for the card its lifespan. Nevertheless, great card if you have enough airflow =D. But I still couldn’t figure out why it consumes less power? Other condensators? Less power phases?
February 22nd, 2010 at 11:23 pm
its the fan, of course
February 23rd, 2010 at 12:03 am
Yeah funny, but I doubt that. The TDP op the HD5750 is 86 Watt. 21 percent of that is 18.06 Watt. I did not come across a fan that powerhungry. But then again, it does not need an external powersupply (so the card can’t exceed the 75Watt buspower), so to manage that, the VCore voltage must be turned down => P = U * I gives less Power at same Amperage and lower voltage.
February 24th, 2010 at 4:02 am
“environmentally friendly” … oh boy! Give us cards with less than 20 (better 10) Watts – that is power efficient.
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