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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 GF100 DX11 Video Card Review

Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Product: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480
Date: Fri, Mar 26, 2010 - 06:00 PM
Written By: Nathan Kirsch -
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Power Consumption

For testing power consumption, we took our test system and plugged it into a Kill-A-Watt power meter. 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 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 used 20% more power than the MSI R5870 Lighting at idle.  The difference is even more apparent when you look at the numbers under load where the GTX 480 uses 27% more power than the MSI R5870 Lighting.  The ATI Radeon HD 5850 power consumption is totally eclipsed by the GTX 480 by 60% under load. The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 is clearly a power-hungry beast.

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Review Index
Page 1 - The First DX11 NVIDIA GPU - GeForce GTX 480
Page 2 - A Closer Look At The GeForce GTX 480
Page 3 - Taking The GeForce GTX 480 Apart
Page 4 - GeForce GTX 480 Test Settings
Page 5 - Batman: Arkham Asylum
Page 6 - Resident Evil 5
Page 7 - Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X.
Page 8 - 3DMark Vantage
Page 9 - Unigine 'Heaven' DX11
Page 10 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
Page 11 - Temperature Testing
Page 12 - GeForce GTX 480 Overclocking
Page 13 - Power Consumption
Page 14 - GeForce GTX F@H Performance
Page 15 - Dual LCD Display Testing
Page 16 - Final Thoughts and Conclusions