VGA card power dissipation

They make noise, too.

Moderators: NeilBlanchard, Ralf Hutter, sthayashi, Lawrence Lee

Ant6n
Posts: 113
Joined: Sat Jun 10, 2006 9:48 pm

Post by Ant6n » Fri Apr 10, 2009 8:28 am

Image
4890 doesn't seem so bad, either.

Kung Fu Hung-Su
Posts: 21
Joined: Mon Nov 14, 2005 1:43 am

Post by Kung Fu Hung-Su » Tue Apr 14, 2009 7:50 am

aristide1 wrote:Image

My new hero is the 55nm GTX260. :shock: 8)
216 shaders barely over 100 watts.
Great observation. I think I have my next card :]

Ant6n
Posts: 113
Joined: Sat Jun 10, 2006 9:48 pm

Post by Ant6n » Sat Apr 25, 2009 1:08 pm

gts250, which appears to be a direct competitor to the upcoming hd4770

Image

source: http://xbitlabs.com/articles/video/disp ... html#sect0

Ant6n
Posts: 113
Joined: Sat Jun 10, 2006 9:48 pm

Post by Ant6n » Mon Apr 27, 2009 5:25 pm


SoopahMan
Posts: 50
Joined: Fri Aug 19, 2005 6:22 pm
Location: North Hollywood, CA, USA
Contact:

Post by SoopahMan » Wed Jul 29, 2009 5:14 pm

Yes, the Radeon HD 4890 seems to be the current efficiency winner, at least if your goal is playing modern games... which if it isn't... why are you buying a 3D card?

I went over the performance numbers and power consumption for about 80 different cards on various review sites, and found not only the above power numbers, but also that the 4890 is near the top in all single-card reviews, but if you turn Anti-Aliasing on, it CRUSHES the competition. With maximum Anti-Aliasing settings (hard to find many performance numbers with this enabled), the 4890 is way out ahead of any other single-card, single-GPU configuration. For whatever reason, ATI's approach lays waste to nVidia's once Anti-Aliasing is turned up. And obviously going dual-card or dual-GPU shoots your power usage sky high.

I've long felt that the difference for pixel-based art is anti-aliasing. Pixar's movies have always looked so good in part because of the extreme levels of anti-aliasing applied from the very beginning.

I now have my 4890 running in a 350w system, and can for example play Spore with Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering both turned to maximum and the framerate sticks at 60 (the max because I have VSync enabled). And the graphics are gorgeous.

swivelguy2
Posts: 404
Joined: Sun Jul 04, 2004 9:18 pm
Location: Illinois, USA

Post by swivelguy2 » Wed Jul 29, 2009 6:00 pm

SoopahMan wrote:Yes, the Radeon HD 4890 seems to be the current efficiency winner, at least if your goal is playing modern games... which if it isn't... why are you buying a 3D card?
What about the 4770? Using the power draw numbers above, and the 3dMarks score from Tom's Hardware,

HD 4890: 19912 3dMarks / 120.3 watts = 166 3dMarks per watt

HD 4770: 14528 3dMarks / 49.5 watts = 293 3dMarks per watt

It's to be expected that the 4770 will win in performance per watt, because it's the only card available using the newest/smallest GPU technology. Also, stock fanless editions are on the way, which is nice.

EsaT
Posts: 473
Joined: Sun Aug 13, 2006 1:53 am
Location: 61.6° N, 29.5° E - Finland

Post by EsaT » Sat Oct 31, 2009 2:54 am

I wonder why HD5870 hasn't been posted in here:
Fastest single card by good margin and practically as fast as double cards of previous generation but with very decent load consumption and plain marvellous idle/desktop consumption for such high end card:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/ ... html#sect0

qiqi1021
Posts: 14
Joined: Thu Oct 29, 2009 12:00 am
Location: Sydney, Australia

Post by qiqi1021 » Sun Nov 01, 2009 9:51 am

Everything covered and regularly updated: The Truth About Graphics Power Requirements V2

Mats
Posts: 3044
Joined: Fri Dec 26, 2003 6:54 am
Location: Sweden

Post by Mats » Thu Apr 08, 2010 5:12 am


wahaneebelly
Posts: 1
Joined: Thu May 20, 2010 10:45 pm
Location: canada

Post by wahaneebelly » Thu May 20, 2010 11:38 pm

For graphics cards power consumption take a look at XBit.
For connectors every model have it in their specs.

Ksanderash
Posts: 353
Joined: Sat Oct 18, 2008 6:30 am
Location: Moldova, exUSSR

Re: VGA card power dissipation

Post by Ksanderash » Thu Nov 25, 2010 1:10 am

An interesting article (Russian language, use translate.google.com, pls), pretending to a precise comsumption analysis worked out (Atmel microcontroller is used, special current sencing, etc)
Last edited by Ksanderash on Thu Nov 25, 2010 12:13 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Mats
Posts: 3044
Joined: Fri Dec 26, 2003 6:54 am
Location: Sweden

Re: VGA card power dissipation

Post by Mats » Thu Nov 25, 2010 5:41 am

Ksanderash wrote:An interesting article (Russian language, use translate.google.com, pls), pretending to a precise comsumption analysis worked out (Atmel microcontroller is used, special current sencing, etc)
It's easier to read the english version than to translate from russian.
I don't know the relation between the sites, xbit is russian IIRC and both articles have the same author.

From xbitlabs:
Image

Ksanderash
Posts: 353
Joined: Sat Oct 18, 2008 6:30 am
Location: Moldova, exUSSR

Re: VGA card power dissipation

Post by Ksanderash » Thu Nov 25, 2010 12:42 pm

Mats wrote:I don't know the relation between the sites, xbit is russian IIRC and both articles have the same author.
:D Ha-ha! Well, the explanation is simple. Xbitlabs is just like a RussiaToday, a proKremlin TV-channel that works for West world only (and says only good things about Russia), so is the Xbitlabs, that presents mainly Russian articles to English reading audience. Xbitlabs was founded by an ex-worker from very weighty Russian site http://www.ixbt.com. He went to http://www.fcenter.ru/ team, then after a while seeing lack of interest for IT reviews in Russia established Xbitlabs. So the articles you read are first written in Russian, then translated to English. Just for anyone information :)

I even did a search for this article (about consumption), cause I know that it should appear on Xbitlabs, but didn't find it, so thank you, Mats, for finding!

Mats
Posts: 3044
Joined: Fri Dec 26, 2003 6:54 am
Location: Sweden

Re: VGA card power dissipation

Post by Mats » Thu Nov 25, 2010 1:02 pm

Ksanderash wrote:So the articles you read are first written in Russian, then translated to English.
Seems logical, but most articles seems to be published at Xbitlabs first.

Big Pimp Daddy
Posts: 175
Joined: Mon May 30, 2005 11:26 am
Location: Sunny Swansea

Re: VGA card power dissipation

Post by Big Pimp Daddy » Thu Nov 25, 2010 1:25 pm

Ksanderash wrote:So the articles you read are first written in Russian, then translated to English. Just for anyone information :)
Aha, I always thought there was something strange about the language used on xbitlabs, it's generally perfect English, but some choices of words seem odd to a native English speaker. Now it all makes sense.

alecmg
Posts: 204
Joined: Thu Mar 13, 2008 5:56 am
Location: Estonia

Re: VGA card power dissipation

Post by alecmg » Mon Nov 29, 2010 6:05 am

Mats wrote:
Ksanderash wrote:So the articles you read are first written in Russian, then translated to English.
Seems logical, but most articles seems to be published at Xbitlabs first.
Not from my experience. Fcenter is usually first, but xbitlabs has more readers and perhaps it is indexed in search engines better

Mats
Posts: 3044
Joined: Fri Dec 26, 2003 6:54 am
Location: Sweden

Re: VGA card power dissipation

Post by Mats » Mon Nov 29, 2010 8:10 am

alecmg wrote:Not from my experience. Fcenter is usually first, but xbitlabs has more readers and perhaps it is indexed in search engines better
I was looking at the dates they were published, I didn't search.

Post Reply