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Rumor: ATI's R600 will consume over 250W (500W CrossFire)

The Inq is reporting that they believe that the ATI R600 will be consuming an insane 250 Watts of power per card when they are released to the public. Running ATI Crossfire with this system would be pushing 500 Watts of power on just the graphics cards alone! I guess we will see how this all plays out because with a 2007 launch date rumored that means this might be AMD's first GPU.

We can now confirm that the new ATI card will consume around 250W. The currently fastest ATI, R580+ or Radeon X1950 XTX consumes up to 125W in a worst case scenario and heavy 3D while you can suck up 145W out with the dual chip X7950 GX2 card. This means that the R600 will consume twice as much power, and probably will end up close to twice as warm but we also hear it will get much faster then the current cards with sixty four pipelines. It could easily end up twice as fast than the current ATI offerings. It is now a January/February chip, so it will be a while until we have this baby on our desk but after a long time we are getting mildly titillated at the prospect.

The Inquirer

Posted by | Mon, Sep 18, 2006 - 05:52 AM