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EVGA GeForce GT 240 SuperClocked Video Card Review

Manufacturer: eVGA
Product: 512-P3-1242-LR
Date: Mon, Nov 30, 2009 - 12:00 AM
Written By: Nathan Kirsch -
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Power Consumption

For testing power consumption, we took our test system and plugged it into a Seasonic Power Angel. For idle numbers, we allowed the system to idle on the desktop for 15 minutes and took the reading. For load numbers we measured the peak wattage used by the system while running the OpenGL benchmark FurMark 1.7.0 at 1920x1200 resolution.

Total System Power Consumption Results

Power Consumption Results: The EVGA GeForce GT 240 Superclocked graphics card uses less power at idle than the EVGA GeForce GT 220 SSC video card! Why is this? It is because the EVGA GeForce GT 240 Superclocked graphics card uses 512MB of energy efficient GDDR5 memory. The EVGA GeForce GT 220 SSC video card on the other hand has twice as much memory at 1024MB and to make things worse it is based on less energy efficient GDDR3 memory. At load the 96 stream processors on the GeForce GT 240 SuperClocked edition card make up for the power savings of the memory and uses just slightly more power than the Geforce GT 220 SSC's 48 stream processors. 

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Review Index
Page 1 - The EVGA GeForce GT 240
Page 2 - EVGA GT 240 SuperClocked
Page 3 - Retail Box and Bundle
Page 4 - The Test System
Page 5 - Batman: Arkham Asylum
Page 6 - Resident Evil 5
Page 7 - Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X.
Page 8 - FurMark 1.7.0
Page 9 - 3DMark Vantage
Page 10 - Temperature Testing
Page 11 - Power Consumption
Page 12 - EVGA GT 240 Overclocking
Page 13 - Final Thoughts and Conclusions