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VGA Power ConsumptionLife is not as affordable as it used to be, and items such as gasoline, natural gas, and electricity all top the list of resources which have exploded in price over the past few years. Add to this the limit of non-renewable resources compared to current demands, and you can see that the prices are only going to get worse. Planet Earth is needs our help, and needs it badly. With forests becoming barren of vegetation and snow capped poles quickly turning brown, the technology industry has a new attitude towards turning "green". I'll spare you the powerful marketing hype that gets sent from various manufacturers every day, and get right to the point: your computer hasn't been doing much to help save energy... at least up until now. For power consumption tests, Benchmark Reviews utilizes the 80-PLUS GOLD certified OCZ Z-Series Gold 850W PSU, model OCZZ850. This power supply unit has been tested to provide over 90% typical efficiency by Chroma System Solutions. To measure isolated video card power consumption, Benchmark Reviews uses the Kill-A-Watt EZ (model P4460) power meter made by P3 International. A baseline test is taken without a video card installed inside our test computer system, which is allowed to boot into Windows-7 and rest idle at the login screen before power consumption is recorded. Once the baseline reading has been taken, the graphics card is installed and the system is again booted into Windows and left idle at the login screen. Our final loaded power consumption reading is taken with the video card running a stress test using FurMark. Below is a chart with the isolated video card power consumption (not system total) displayed in Watts for each specified test product:
* Results are accurate to within +/- 5W.
The GeForce GTX-465 requires two six-pin PCI-E power connections. Resting at idle, the power draw consumed 36 watts of electricity... 6W less than the GTX-470. Putting this into perspective: the ATI Radeon HD 4770 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX-280 use about the same power, while the NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX and ATI Radeon HD 4850 both consume more power at idle. Unfortunately, the GTX-465 uses almost twice the idle power draw of the ATI Radeon HD 5770... and comes close to doubling the HD 5850. As our GeForce GTX 480 review demonstrated, Fermi proves to have a big power appetite when it should be snacking on only a few watts. Once 3D-applications begin to demand power from the GPU, electrical power consumption really begins to climb. Measured at full 3D 'torture' load, the GeForce GTX 465 consumed 219 watts, compared to 278W for the GTX-470. While the GTX-465 matches power consumption of the old GTX-280 (again), it's much higher than the 157W consumed by the Radeon HD 5850. Although Fermi features a 40nm fabrication process, there's nothing 'Green' about the power demand under load and most DirectX-11 video cards from ATI require less power.
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Comments
Then, the HD5770 is not 256-bit but 128-bit!
I count 5 clear wins for the 5850, 3 for the 465 and one wash (Resident evil 5). From the 465's point of view, thats a staggering 67% more wins for the 5850!!
And by the way, I don't count the two parts of 3D vantage as separate tests.
So not only is the 5850 the faster card with over half the tests won, more importantly, it also offers the most bang for your buck! All according to your own figures!
At least to me, this would count as a clear win for the 5850, but that is hardly what I see in the summary.
Also worth mentioning i think: Having been on Newegg on a few occasions, $305 seemed a bit steep for a 5850, and for aspiring customers for a graphics card, I can tell a 5850 can be found for $285. Only $5 more expensive than the price for the 465 you are quoting, and with that small difference I think the value numbers throughout the test would look a bit different.
You should also check your math on the cost per FPS, because the GTX-465 beats the Radeon 5850 in nearly all of them.
I thank you and congratulate you for your response to the commenter.
I sit here absolutely STUNNED. I can't believe that somebody didn't just "take it" and nearly agree with the ati fan fraud.
THANK YOU SO MUCH.
My faith in humanity has been renewed.
Believe me, I really, really appreciate it.
Sincerely sick of the rampant red bias,
SiliconDoc
Did you just report the AC Power differnence between no graphic card in the system and with the Graphics card installed? Did you try to take into account the PSU efficiency?
Power supply efficiency is not taken into consideration for any of our reported results. Only the motherboard, processor, memory, SSD, and video card are drawing power. The math is simply idle/load result minus baseline.
And I don't get your pricing figures. I found a 5850 for $285 and another for $305 in Newegg... the ones you mention beyond $325 include special cooling designs.