To test power consumption, we monitor the overall power of the system through a plug-in electricity usage monitor at an idle and load state. This allows us to show the fluctuation between how much power draw the graphics card takes at idle and at load. By monitoring the overall usage of the whole system, it gives an easy comparison if you wish to do the same yourself as opposed to buying very expensive individual testing equipment.
Power wise, the card uses a very low 144 Watts at idle which is below that of the 680 SOC and not to much of an increase over the stock AMD reference card. At load, the system ended up pulling 322 Watts which is still below that of the 680 SOC but is quite a big jump from the stock AMD 7970 card.
Yeah it’s a beast alright but I’ve never understood the logic of buying something like this. I can understand the logic of buying a Ferrari because that’ll retain it’s worth & even increase in value long after production ceases, but a computer part? In a couple of months when Tahiti becomes obsolete the card is worth a fraction of what it cost & nobody is interested in it any more. Only people (and there’s probably too many of them) with too much money & not enough smarts would spring for it.
I agree man it’s better off to buy a 670 or 680 than this card.
A 670 I see, but a 680 is the same price as this card…. while being slower and not overclocking as well, so eh if you’re a green fan that much lol.
In this article they post benchmarks where 680 is pretty much the same and then they say what their maximum overclock was but they don’t post any numbers for the OC? Pretty weird that they didn’t do any benches with it overclocked.
Would you like us to at least run 3DMark 11 to show the performance increase from now on?
That would be great if you can do that in future. Clock speeds are impressive but sometimes hard to gauge how much they will reflect in real world performance. Thanks guys.
not 3dmark, heaven, bf3, maybe sleeping dogs or witcher2 with ubersampling
basically something with an fps counter to examine the OC numbers
you buy ferraris with the intention of selling them? that’s faulty, what if you have an accident or the specific model for some reason has a defect that nobody wants
i buy things for myself for my usage for life, you make your own worth (& it’s not like they make so many of these to get tons of sales, only specific people would want it)
& how the heck is something obsolete, not everyone buys the biggest fanciest card per generation, some people do every 2 or 3 or 4 generations, so the super card is just fine at surviving all those years, hardly obsolete…
does this card support
GIGABYTE GA-Z68X-UD3H-B3 LGA 1155 Intel Z68 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard ?