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ASUS GeForce GTX 470 ENGTX470 Video Card Review

Manufacturer: ASUS
Product: ENGTX470/2DI/1280MD5
Date: Fri, Apr 23, 2010 - 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 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 ASUS GeForce GTX 470 graphics card has a very respectable idle power consumption of 142 Watts with a single monitor, but at load it became a whole new monster. At full GPU load the ASUS GeForce GTX 470 gulped down 437 Watts of power, which is more than 100W higher than a Radeon HD 5850 consumes at load. The GeForce GTX 400 series isn't power friendly at load or with two monitors, but NVIDIA said they knew that from the start with this video card series and it shouldn't shock consumers.  

Next Page - Temperature Testing


Review Index
Page 1 - The ASUS Voltage Tweak GTX470
Page 2 - Retail Box and Bundle
Page 3 - The ASUS Smart Doctor Utility
Page 4 - GeForce GTX 470 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 - Power Consumption
Page 12 - Temperature Testing
Page 13 - GeForce GTX 470 Overclocking
Page 14 - Final Thoughts and Conclusions