My son and I game everyday for hours on a regular basis. It’s funny to see reviews about gaming GPU’s that emphasize power consumption, and decibel levels. A huge thanks goes to our very own Allyn Malventano for getting the setup up and running in time for us to get a sample of the kind of data we'll be showing in the future. How do we do it? Simple in theory but surprisingly difficult in practice, we are intercepting the power being sent through the PCI Express bus as well as the ATX power connectors before they go to the graphics card and are directly measuring power draw with a 10 kHz DAQ (data acquisition) device. This includes and starts with graphics cards. In the coming weeks we are going to detail a brand new set of power testing methods we are using at PC Perspective to directly measure power of…well, everything if we can. PC Perspective Advanced Power Testing Preview After all, we are measuring WHOLE SYSTEM power consumption above. You are using 60-70% of ANOTHER GTX 960 to get similar performance out of the Radeon R9 285 or Radeon R9 280!īut that method of power testing isn't as easy to decipher, isn't as direct. Well things are looking up for NVIDIA again in this department – the GTX 960 is using 46 fewer watts than the GTX 760 under a gaming load, and 80 watts less than the Radeon R9 285! These are not small numbers guys – the TDP of the GTX 960 is only 120 watts. Let's see how the GTX 960 stacks up in our existing power testing infrastructure. Lower power allows for smaller cards, quieter coolers and an overall better user experience. While power consumption alone might not seem appealing to enthusiast gamers, you have to realize that indirectly translates into heat in your system and noise from it. Not only was the GTX 980 able to outperform the likes of the Radeon R9 290X but it was able to do with substantially less power. Maxwell is an impressively efficient architecture and we saw that with our original GTX 750 Ti review and then again with the GTX 980 and GTX 970 release. Pricing, Availability and Closing Thoughts.Generational Performance Compaison – GTX 960, GTX 760, GTX 660.NVIDIA Multi-Frame Sampled Anti-Aliasing (MFAA) Performance.NVIDIA’s GM206 based GTX 960 card is finally launching, after weeks of rumors and leaks.
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