Actually graphics cards for the desktop usually don't clock down very far, and the ram usually not at all.
Voltage doesn't usually go lower either, even though most PCB's offer Voltage control, the circuits aren't populated. More energy would probably be saved with on-demand voltage and clock-speeds across their entire range of products, regardless of 2d or 3D modes, especially with Vista Aero becoming more popular.
@ icingdeath88
"They do, but of course it would be a lot better if they could just turn off one of the cores altogether. . . Also, hybrid SLI is a silly thing to call this. It's just turning on and off SLI as needed to conserve power."
I think this is in regard to the integrated graphics included on most motherboards, I would love to see the integrated chipsets be able to add their shader power into the fray while doing intense calculations, and using only the integrated while browsing around, do your part for global-warming and get hybrid SLi.
It is Hybrid because it combines the on-board graphics into the Sli. This wasn't done before because of the load-balancing of Sli, graphics needed to be matched, and because of the added pressure to lessen mean energy usage of the video card when performing word-processing and web-browsing tasks.
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Actually graphics cards for the desktop usually don't clock down very far, and the ram usually not at all.
Voltage doesn't usually go lower either, even though most PCB's offer Voltage control, the circuits aren't populated. More energy would probably be saved with on-demand voltage and clock-speeds across their entire range of products, regardless of 2d or 3D modes, especially with Vista Aero becoming more popular.
@ icingdeath88
"They do, but of course it would be a lot better if they could just turn off one of the cores altogether. . . Also, hybrid SLI is a silly thing to call this. It's just turning on and off SLI as needed to conserve power."
I think this is in regard to the integrated graphics included on most motherboards, I would love to see the integrated chipsets be able to add their shader power into the fray while doing intense calculations, and using only the integrated while browsing around, do your part for global-warming and get hybrid SLi.
It is Hybrid because it combines the on-board graphics into the Sli. This wasn't done before because of the load-balancing of Sli, graphics needed to be matched, and because of the added pressure to lessen mean energy usage of the video card when performing word-processing and web-browsing tasks.