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NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 SLI versus ATI Radeon HD 5770 CrossFire

Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Product: GeForce GTS 450 & Radeon HD 5770
Date: Wed, Sep 29, 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 1.8.2 at 1920x1200 resolution.

Total System Power Consumption Results

Power Consumption Results: When it comes to power consumption the ATI Radeon HD 5770 CrossFire configuration uses slightly less power but, as you can see, the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450 SLI setup doesn't use that much more. We are talking about just 5 Watts higher at full load and 2 Watts higher at idle. We'll consider this one a draw.

Next Page - Temperature Testing


Review Index
Page 1 - ATI CrossFire Versus NVIDIA SLI
Page 2 - The Test System
Page 3 - Aliens vs. Predator
Page 4 - Batman: Arkham Asylum GOTY
Page 5 - Just Cause 2
Page 6 - Metro 2033
Page 7 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
Page 8 - StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty
Page 9 - 3DMark Vantage
Page 10 - Unigine 'Heaven' DX11
Page 11 - FurMark 1.8.2
Page 12 - Power Consumption
Page 13 - Temperature Testing
Page 14 - Final Thoughts and Conclusions