{"id":603,"date":"2012-01-05T20:44:08","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T19:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spatzentrauma.de\/blog\/?p=603"},"modified":"2012-01-05T20:44:08","modified_gmt":"2012-01-05T19:44:08","slug":"radeon-cooler-and-cheaper-finally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/spatzentrauma.de\/blog\/2012\/01\/radeon-cooler-and-cheaper-finally\/","title":{"rendered":"radeon: cooler and cheaper! (finally)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Woohoo! Since 3 or 4 days ago the radeon (RV770) in my computer runs much cooler, if one switches power_profile from <em>default<\/em> to <em>low<\/em>. I don&#8217;t know where the change happened, maybe somewhere in the last stable-kernel updates, but i didn&#8217;t read anything about it in the release information. From the day AMD announced to release documentation helping kernel\/xorg developers producing a working open source driver many people waited for such events. <a href=\"http:\/\/spatzentrauma.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Radeon_power.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-602\" title=\"Radeon_power\" src=\"http:\/\/spatzentrauma.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Radeon_power-300x156.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"http:\/\/spatzentrauma.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Radeon_power-300x156.png 300w, http:\/\/spatzentrauma.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Radeon_power-500x261.png 500w, http:\/\/spatzentrauma.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Radeon_power.png 840w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Despite my card is a bit older (in terms of graphic card lifetime) that change will let the card run on lower temperatures and saves me a dollar^wEuro because that means a huge drop in energy consumption too. +20 watt less is a number i&#8217;ll see on my annual energy bill. And noise level dropped too. The driver already had *some* power management functions but for a long time voltage\/frequency lowering only worked in dpms standby\/off (means: monitor in standby or off) and not during normal operation. So, to me it seems like a late Christmas Gift.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woohoo! Since 3 or 4 days ago the radeon (RV770) in my computer runs much cooler, if one switches power_profile from default to low. I don&#8217;t know where the change happened, maybe somewhere in the last stable-kernel updates, but i &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/spatzentrauma.de\/blog\/2012\/01\/radeon-cooler-and-cheaper-finally\/\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,4,11],"tags":[257,161],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/spatzentrauma.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/spatzentrauma.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/spatzentrauma.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spatzentrauma.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spatzentrauma.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/spatzentrauma.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":608,"href":"http:\/\/spatzentrauma.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions\/608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/spatzentrauma.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spatzentrauma.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spatzentrauma.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}