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I ran 3DMark11 last night, the full suite and when I went back down to the basement to check, system was crashed :xI've got the Powerlimit set to +50% so I'm going back to stock 0% and see if that changes anything, I suspect not.They way these cards manage themselves is insane and a testament to good engineering in some way.If we compare the first 28nm from AMD, the 7970, with the R9 Nano.Anandtech BenchThe R9 Nano is almost 2x in performance and the power consumption has stayed the same.Yes the process node has been further optimized and the engineers had a lot of time to tune their designs. But a 2x performance increase at the same power consumption requires some engineering shenanigans. aggressive power management is the major factor here.I will be looking to add some capacitors in a next revision.
I ran 3DMark11 last night, the full suite and when I went back down to the basement to check, system was crashed :x
I've got the Powerlimit set to +50% so I'm going back to stock 0% and see if that changes anything, I suspect not.
They way these cards manage themselves is insane and a testament to good engineering in some way.
If we compare the first 28nm from AMD, the 7970, with the R9 Nano.
Anandtech Bench
The R9 Nano is almost 2x in performance and the power consumption has stayed the same.
Yes the process node has been further optimized and the engineers had a lot of time to tune their designs. But a 2x performance increase at the same power consumption requires some engineering shenanigans. aggressive power management is the major factor here.
I will be looking to add some capacitors in a next revision.
