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8800GT xbitlab power consumption figures published
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 1:15 pm
by david25
Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2008 2:14 pm
by Aris
Around 80w Load. reference was slightly lower, and the gainward ver slightly higher.
Pretty good since performance wise it beats the 320mb 8800gts which uses around 20w more power at load and idle.
Its half as much power as an 8800GTX at idle, and 50w less at load. Considering performance is about par between the two, thats a pretty large reduction in power requirement.
Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 7:25 am
by DG
And for the new GTS? Anyone knows?
Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 9:21 am
by Aris
DG wrote:And for the new GTS? Anyone knows?
Its based on the same technology as the GT, so it will likely be slightly higher than the GT. maybe 90-100w load.
Re: 8800GT xbitlab power consumption figures published
Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 12:55 pm
by Flandry
Hmm. I find that hard to believe. Almost every review i've seen has shown the 8800gt at idle consuming substantially more power than the Radeon HD 3850, yet i've just installed my new 512MB 3850 and found that it idles 25 Watts higher than the Intel IGP.
I've got an overclocked quad-core system with a good DX10 vid card that idles at 93W.
Re: 8800GT xbitlab power consumption figures published
Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 12:28 am
by Shemale
Flandry wrote:....i've just installed my new 512MB 3850 and found that it idles 25 Watts higher than the Intel IGP....
The Intel northbridge become more hungry with PCIE enabled, and probably some other components start running when inserting a video card.
http://www.intel.com/design/chipsets/de ... 316968.htm
