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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 1.25GB Video Card Review

Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Product: GeForce GTX 570 Video Card
Date: Tue, Dec 07, 2010 - 08:00 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 1280x1024 resolution.

Total System Power Consumption Results

Power Consumption Results: Here we see the GeForce GTX 570 using less power at idle, but more power at load than the GeForce GTX 580. This makes no sense and when we looked into it we found that the GeForce GTX 570 was throttling less than a GeForce GTX 580 video card. This was shown in the Furmark OpenGL benchmark test as the GeForce GTX 570 scored better than a GeForce GTX 580.

Total System Power Consumption Results

Just for fun we ran both the GeForce GTX 580 and GTX 570 with 3DMark Vantage to see how the cards would fare. The GeForce GTX 580 peaked at 358 Watts with a maximum GPU temperature of 73C in game test 1. The GeForce GTX 570, on the other hand, peaked at just 330 Watts with a maximum GPU temperature of 75C in the same test. This 28 Watt difference is more what we expected and the next time that we start over on our benchmarking we will be taking real world power consumptions as our peak using a game rather than a synthetic application.

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Review Index
Page 1 - GeForce GTX 570 Arrives For The Holidays!
Page 2 - A Closer Look At The GeForce GTX 570
Page 3 - The Test System
Page 4 - Aliens vs. Predator
Page 5 - Batman: Arkham Asylum GOTY
Page 6 - Just Cause 2
Page 7 - Metro 2033
Page 8 - StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty
Page 9 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
Page 10 - H.A.W.X. 2 Benchmark
Page 11 - 3DMark Vantage
Page 12 - 3DMark 11
Page 13 - Unigine 'Heaven' DX11
Page 14 - FurMark 1.8.2
Page 15 - Temperature Testing
Page 16 - Power Consumption
Page 17 - GeForce GTX570 Overclocking
Page 18 - Final Thoughts and Conclusions