Power Consumption
With electricity becoming increasingly expensive across most parts of the world the need for computer components to become power efficient has never been more relevant. Graphics cards are often the most power hungry components inside a system so having an efficient graphics card is very important to keeping power bills under control. Power is often correlated to heat and so lower power consumption means a graphics card is likely to run slightly cooler and put out less heat into your system meaning your other components will run cooler with improved longevity. AMD and Nvidia have also both made power consumption an integral part of the way graphics cards dynamically overclock so the need for graphics card vendors to use efficient VRM and PCB designs is becoming important to maximise performance.
Find details of our power consumption methodology on page 3.
When I was reading your introduction I was a little surprised to see the blue PCB because the one we’ve just tested had a black PCB. I had no idea there were two revisions but you cleared that up quite nicely in the conclusion. Just goes to show I don’t jump to the closing thoughts first and ignore all your other hard work.
Super important thing to mention – Gigabyte has 2 revisions of the GTX760. REV1 witch is what we see here features the blue PCB with a 3 heatpipe cooling solution while REV2 features a Black PCB and a 2 heatpipe solution.