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EVGA, Palit and XFX GeForce 9600 GT Video Card Review

Manufacturer: NVIDIA
Product: NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT 512MB GDDR3 Graphics Cards
Date: Thu, Feb 21, 2008 - 12:00 AM
Written By: Nathan Kirsch -
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Power Consumption

Power Consumption

For testing power consumption, we took our test system and plugged it into a Seasonic Power Angel. 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 game World in Conflict at 1600x1200 with medium graphics quality.

Power Consumption

Power Consumption Results:  Our power consumption chart is getting rather large, but since it doesn't matter on the drivers, the numbers stay current as long as nothing on the test system changes.  The GeForce 9600 GT's that we tested here today all had the same exact idle speed and the load speeds were not significantly different, so we just took the average of all three cards for the load results.  The GeForce 9600 GT does fairly well and consumed less power than the Radeon HD 3870, but just a little more than the Radeon HD 3850 by ATI.  ATI graphics cards are based on 55nm GPUs, so it makes sense that these 65nm GPUs use a little more power.

Next Page - Final Thoughts and Conclusions


Review Index
Page 1 - GeForce 9 Series Cards Arrive
Page 2 - EVGA e-GeForce 9600 GT SSC
Page 3 - Palit 9600 GT Sonic
Page 4 - XFX GeForce 9600 GT (PV-T94P-YDF)
Page 5 - The Test System
Page 6 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
Page 7 - Company of Heroes
Page 8 - World in Conflict
Page 9 - BioShock
Page 10 - Crysis
Page 11 - Call of Duty 4
Page 12 - 3DMark 2006
Page 13 - Lightsmark 2007
Page 14 - Temperatures
Page 15 - Power Consumption
Page 16 - Final Thoughts and Conclusions