Tag: power draw

New Silicon Motion controller will make PCIe 5.0 SSDs low-power

News, SSDs | | Jan Olšan

PCIe Gen5 SSDs have so far been the domain of Phison, whose E26 controller has a pretty high power draw, and there are reports of throttling or even system crashes due to overheating of these SSDs. Silicon Motion controllers will quite possibly solve this, as their power draw is supposed to be significantly lower. It turns out then not just the lower-tier ones, but even the high-performance SM2508 design will be quite efficient. Read more “New Silicon Motion controller will make PCIe 5.0 SSDs low-power” »

Cheaper Raptor Lake CPU will be just rebadged Alder Lake chips

News, Processors | | Jan Olšan

Yesterday we reported that Raptor Lake processors are largely a continuation of the Alder Lake generation using the same ingredients, despite a large increase in achieved clock speeds and some architectural changes (cache). This is even more true than we thought. It turns out that only the higher-tier K-series models are actually new chips. The lower end, including all 65W Core i5s, are recycling silicon from the Alder Lake generation. Read more “Cheaper Raptor Lake CPU will be just rebadged Alder Lake chips” »

More Ryzen 7000 details: TDP and PPT, iGPU features and more…

News, Processors | | Jan Olšan

We’ve already had an article about AMD’s Ryzen 7000 CPUs and what was revealed about them at Computex 2022, but we need to revisit them once more. AMD has since dropped more details about the features of these CPUs, new instructions and technologies. The situation around TDP and maximum power draw was also clarified, and AMD also said something about the reported performance numbers that caused a bit of a stir on Monday. Read more “More Ryzen 7000 details: TDP and PPT, iGPU features and more…” »

GeForce RTX 4000 “Lovelace“ power draw might exceed 800 W

Graphics, News | | Jan Olšan

GPU TDPs have become a bit unhinged lately. Having breached the 300W barrier and then jumping up to 320-350 W, Nvidia is now even developing a 450 W card in the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti. However this might be nothing in comparison with what is about to come. It seems that not even the scary 600W number that we heard abotu earlier is the final destination. Nvidia’s next-gen is about to set the bar even higher (and not in a good way). Read more “GeForce RTX 4000 “Lovelace“ power draw might exceed 800 W” »

Specs of Intel Alder Lake 125W ‘K’ processors leak: clock rate, PL2

News, Processors | | Jan Olšan

Last week we’ve had reports of the big.LITTLE Intel Alder Lake processors reaching surprising performance: with just 8 “big” cores out of the total 16, they are said to surpass the 32-threaded Zen 3 in Cinebench R20. Now we the specs of all three 125W unlocked models, with clocks and power draw in boost, aka PL2. Looks like 10nm process will finally lower the power consumption compared to the 14nm CPUs—but not by much. Read more “Specs of Intel Alder Lake 125W ‘K’ processors leak: clock rate, PL2” »

More on AMD AM5: TDP to reach 120 W, more PCIe lanes, CPU’s look

Motherboards, News, Processors | | Jan Olšan

We have recently covered the first info detailing the new AMD desktop platform for Ryzen 6000 processors (or 7000, we’ll see) that will introduce DDR5 memory. The source of this report has now provided more on the connectivity specs, as well as a picture showing what the processors for the AM5 socket might look like. But it also looks like the TDP will increase, perhaps due to the TDP increasing strategy of Intel’s. Read more “More on AMD AM5: TDP to reach 120 W, more PCIe lanes, CPU’s look” »

Intel Alder Lake ES leaked: 4.6 GHz clock, high power draw

News, Processors | | Jan Olšan

Interesting info has shown up about the upcoming Intel Alder Lake CPUs, the first big.LITTLE desktop CPUs. Igor’sLAB has covered a sample called Core-1800 with 16 cores and 24 threads. The ES already shows promising clock speed and boost values for different active core counts. Also notable is the power draw. Intel doesn’t seem to be about to return to more power-efficient CPUs despite the 10nm process, PL2 is still over 200 W. Read more “Intel Alder Lake ES leaked: 4.6 GHz clock, high power draw” »