Legit Video Card Reviews

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti Versus AMD Radeon HD 6950 1GB

Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Product: GeForce GTX 560 Ti & AMD Radeon HD 6950 1GB
Date: Tue, Jan 25, 2011 - 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 1280x1024 resolution.

Total System Power Consumption Results

Power Consumption Results: The AMD Radeon HD 6950 1GB video card does pretty well here in the power test, but it came to a shock to us that it used slightly more than the 2GB version that we tested last month. Every card has different GPU core leakage, so no two GPU's are exactly identical when picked at random. The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti has slightly lower power use at idle, but uses more at full load. It is interesting, though, that as you can see, both of these cards ended up next to each other in the power chart! 

Next Page - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti GPU Overclocking


Review Index
Page 1 - NVIDIA Brings Titanium Back!
Page 2 - A Closer Look At The GeForce GTX560 Ti
Page 3 - A Closer Look At The Radeon HD 6950 1GB
Page 4 - Test Setup
Page 5 - Aliens vs. Predator
Page 6 - Batman: Arkham Asylum GOTY
Page 7 - Just Cause 2
Page 8 - Metro 2033
Page 9 - StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty
Page 10 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
Page 11 - H.A.W.X. 2 Benchmark
Page 12 - 3DMark Vantage
Page 13 - 3DMark 11
Page 14 - Unigine 'Heaven' DX11
Page 15 - FurMark 1.8.2
Page 16 - Temperature Testing
Page 17 - Power Consumption
Page 18 - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti GPU Overclocking
Page 19 - AMD Radeon HD 6950 1GB GPU Overclocking
Page 20 - Final Thoughts and Conclusions