NVIDIA has often been referred to as the green camp during its battles with the red camp (ATI). This is more or less solely because of the color of the logo and PCB of the cards, but it has now been extended to mean something more. NVIDIA wants to live up to the environmental side of being green. Information on a new model of GeForce 9600GT with the suffix “Green Edition” has surfaced. GeForce 9600GT Green Edition will be an optimized version of the reference card that focuses on lower power consumption.
Since the power consumption isn’t lowered by itself, NVIDIA has revised the specifications and this has resulted in slightly lower frequencies on the GPU and the shaders, by around 8%. Something that in turn has enabled NVIDIA to lower the GPU voltage from 1.1V to 1.0V.
In turn this has resulted in a energy saving of nearly 39%. The total power consumption will be 59W compared to the 96W the reference card consumes, which also means that the card will do just fine without a PCIe power connector.
When and at what price the card will appear remains to be seen, but it looks like an interesting alternative for HTPCs, folders or other power efficient systems.
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