Gigabyte GTX 680 Super Over Clock 2GB Graphics Card Review

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 is an area where we do expect the figures to be higher than standard and even more so considering this a Super Over Clock variant of the GTX 680. Whilst we do see that the card uses ~30w more at both idle and load conditions in respect to the MSI Lightning 680, the GTX 680 SOC uses nearly 50W less than its predecessor the GTX 580 SOC at full load.