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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Video Card Review w/ MSI and EVGA

Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Product: GeForce GTX 660
Date: Thu, Sep 13, 2012 - 08:00 AM
Written By: Nathan Kirsch -
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Power Consumption

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Video Cards

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 1.10.1 at 1024x768 resolution. We also ran four game titles at 1920x1080 and averaged the peak results recorded the highest Wattage seen on the meter for the gaming results.

Total System Power Consumption Results

Power Consumption Results: The MSI GeForce GTX 660 OC managed to pull slightly less power than the EVGA GeForce GTX 660 SC during our gaming and Furmark testing. It isn't a huge difference though and is partly due to the fact that its clock speeds are lower (lower voltages) and the custom PCB design that features a different PWM setup. During our Furmark runs, the MSI GeForce GTX 660 OC pulled 296 Watts while the EVGA GeForce GTX 660 SC was pulling 298 Watts. Taking the average of four games gave the MSI GeFoce GTX 660 OC an average power consumption 9 Watts lower than the EVGA counterpart which averaged 299 Watts. All of these cards are very power efficient compared to what we were using just several years ago.

Next Page - Temperature & Noise Testing


Review Index
Page 1 - NVIDIA Brings Kepler To The Sweet Spot
Page 2 - EVGA GeForce GTX 660 SuperClocked
Page 3 - MSI GeForce GTX 660 Twin Frozr
Page 4 - Test Setup
Page 5 - Batman: Arkham City
Page 6 - Battlefield 3
Page 7 - Dirt: Showdown
Page 8 - Metro 2033
Page 9 - Sleeping Dogs
Page 10 - 3DMark 11
Page 11 - Power Consumption
Page 12 - Temperature & Noise Testing
Page 13 - Overclocking The GeForce GTX 660
Page 14 - Final Thoughts and Conclusions