Power Consumption and Voltage Supply

DDR3 XTUNE offers outstanding lower heat output enhancing system reliability

The ability to provide high-level gaming performance at nominal supply voltage is an outstanding advantage of the DDR3 XTUNE series, with competitors having to increase supply voltage up to at least 1.8 V to achieve their overclocking speeds. Maintaining the supply voltage at 1.5 V reduces the amount of power consumed by up to 44% compared to currently available 1Gb DDR3 designs. Besides power savings, the real benefit is the lower heat output, which reduces cooling requirements and enhances system reliability and life expectancy significantly. Further the high-quality heat spreader, with which the XTUNE memories are equipped, helps improving the thermal behaviour, as well.