Legit Video Card Reviews

GeForce GTX 580 Showdown: ASUS Matrix vs.EVGA Classified

Manufacturer: ASUS
Product: GeForce GTX580
Date: Fri, Dec 16, 2011 - 12:00 AM
Written By: Nathan Kirsch -
Share:

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 1.9.1 at 640x480 resolution. We also ran the game HAWX 2 and looped the benchmark three times and recorded the highest Wattage seen on the meter.

Total System Power Consumption Results

Power Consumption Results: No big shocker here!  The EVGA GeForce GTX 580 Classified 3072MB has higher clock speeds, higher voltages and twice as much memory, so of course it uses more power! The ASUS MATRIX GeForce GTX 580 Platinum looks like saint, but we know why!

Next Page - Overclocking


Review Index
Page 1 - The NVIDIA GeForce GTX580 Showdown
Page 2 - The ASUS MATRIX GTX580 Platinum
Page 3 - EVGA GeForce GTX 580 Classified 3072MB
Page 4 - The Bundles
Page 5 - The Test System
Page 6 - Batman: Arkham City
Page 7 - Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Page 8 - DiRT 3
Page 9 - H.A.W.X. 2
Page 10 - Just Cause 2
Page 11 - Metro 2033
Page 12 - 3DMark 11
Page 13 - Temperature & Noise Testing
Page 14 - Power Consumption
Page 15 - Overclocking
Page 16 - Final Thoughts and Conclusions