Catalsyst 12.10 WHQL & 12.11 Beta 4 issues with power consumption - Software

26.10.12 - Catalsyst 12.10 WHQL & 12.11 Beta 4 issues with power consumption

Posted by Marc Büchel (2530 reads)

Yesterday we have taken a closer look at AMDs latest drivers and we found some astonishing and yet concerning things. We've seen that power consumption in idle conditions is much worse than with earlier drivers. In fact, it's 55 percent higher than with with previous drivers.
In our article from on the two new drivers from AMD (Catalyst 12.10 WHQL and 12.11 Beta 4) we have mentioned that the issue is because of the graphics card not reaching the lowest power state. In other words the graphics card doesn't do the downclocking in idle correct anymore. After some further testing we also found that only the Radeon HD 7000 Series graphics cards are affected. If you have an HD 6000 or HD 5000 Series cards you wont see the issue.
At this point you can see a few screenshot which clearly show the different clock speeds:

XFX Radeon HD 7970

Radeon HD 7970 DirectCU II

Radeon HD 7870 DirectCU II

ASUS Radon HD 6950

ASUS Radon HD 6870

ASUS Radon HD 5870

AMD Catalyst 12.10 WHQL & 12.11 Beta 4 - HD 7970 Gaming Performance

English by Slobodan Simic and Marc Büchel - German by Marc Büchel and Marco Haldemann - French by Christian Ney - Italian by Francesco Daghini

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Anonymous	Published: 2012/10/27 21:58 Updated: 2012/10/27 21:58
	Re: Catalsyst 12.10 WHQL & 12.11 Beta 4 issues with power... Hi, I quote : "If you have an HD 6000 or HD 5000 Series cards you wont see the issue." Sorry, but that's not entirely true. Some HD 6000 can have the same issue with both news drivers 12.10 and 12.11B3/4. However, thank you to give that issue some recognition. AMD Needs to fix this.

Anonymous	Published: 2012/11/3 14:32 Updated: 2012/11/3 14:32
	Re: Catalsyst 12.10 WHQL & 12.11 Beta 4 mit Problem beim ... hab ne saphire 7970 und kann euer problem nicht nachfolziehen . zumindestens bei den 12.11 beta passt alles ( die graka taktet runter wie eh und je )

Anonymous	Published: 2013/2/6 9:16 Updated: 2013/2/6 9:16
	Re: Catalsyst 12.10 WHQL & 12.11 Beta 4 mit Problem beim ... Habe diesen Effekt jetzt beim 13.1 und 13.2 Cat. erlebt. Auch der Prozessor taktet nicht mehr komplett im Idle herunter. So sind die AMD-Treiber nicht gebrauchen. Was denkt AMD, was wir für Strompreise in Deutschland haben? :-? Nur Ärger mit der 7950, grr. :-(

rewarder	Published: 2013/2/6 15:46 Updated: 2013/2/6 15:46
Webmaster Joined: 2004/7/5 From: Zürich CH Comments: 962	Re: Catalsyst 12.10 WHQL & 12.11 Beta 4 mit Problem beim ... Ich werde das mal Chris weiterleiten, damit er beim nächsten Treiber-Test genauer hinschaut ob das Problem auch beim 13.1 und 13.2 wieder vorhanden ist Wenn wir das bestätigen können, leiten wir das natürlich sofort an AMD weiter. Letztes Mal reagierten die Jungs dort prompt auf das Feedback.

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