4 ms·
I don't get it, is that not the responsibility of the card vendor? IIRC, AMD does not sell cards itself but sapphire, XFX etc. do. And what does it really mean
by ysleepy 10y ago
I don't get it, is that not the responsibility of the card vendor? IIRC, AMD does not sell cards itself but sapphire, XFX etc. do.
And what does it really mean, what happens if the cards takes more power? - Will the power rails on the board/psu regulate it down?
It all smells a bit.
- dogma1138 10y agoAMD made the reference design, the power consumption is also managed by the silicon. It doesn't mean much other than potential recall/legal issues for AMD. And no motherboards will not restrict it, it can cause motherboards to become unstable since many more things share the PCIe power bus other than the GPU (high end motherboards usually have extra power connectors for multiple card setups) and it can damage the motherboard physically if the traces are not rated for that current. The problem here is you combine a low end card with borderline spec issues, this means that virtually everyone who'll own one will own a low to mid range motherboard also which are the ones which are likely to have issues. High End motherboards are so overbuilt for overclocking and multi GPU setups that it doesn't really matter, but with 10-20% more draw on the PCIe power tracers even the reviewers were nervous testing the cards on those rigs.