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The 580 just as hungry as the 460/470/480..

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Just a read of a review 580 and its just as power hungry as the 400series the only thing going power wise is idle power is slightly better than the 480 series by 1watt. Some folk think it use's less electricity, dont think so, take alook at these power graph's -

Idle -
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460 > 269W / 470 > 304 / 480 > 344 / 580 > 352WATTS
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Finaly come's top by 1watt over the 480 lol
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So at the end of the day , you save nothing on your leccy bill by having a 580, its still a hungry Beast.
 
skotish| said:
Shouldnt it be its a top end card ?
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Read my thread > "Some folk think it use's less electricity"

Rossi~ "Quote" > Yes. I'd say the leap would be pretty great, if you consider the benchmarks that are out you're looking at what, 20-30fps tops in a lot of games? Also they're not so power hungry and GTX 470 + overclock would drink your 'lectrics.
 
In order to stay within the 300 W power limit, NVIDIA has added a power draw limitation system to their card. When either Furmark or OCCT are detected running by the driver, three sensors measure the inrush current and voltage on all 12 V lines (PCI-E slot, 6-pin, 8-pin) to calculate power. As soon as the power draw exceeds a predefined limit, the card will automatically clock down and restore clocks as soon as the overcurrent situation has gone away.
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I think H e x u s botched up their power tests because according to techpowerup it does use less power.

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_580/25.html
 
Why would anyone concerned with power consumption buy high end hardware anyway? if I was a green fanatic I'd be running an i3 and lower end graphics card.
 
The 580 is actually more efficient than the 480.

Which is why the 580 is powering more shaders, and higher overclocks, while maintaining the same power draw as the 480.
 
If you consider it's faster than the 480, it would use less electricity for the same performance. It's a good thing they've managed to make it more efficient, but no surprise it is just as hungry.
 
yeah admittedly, the powerdraw is still similar.

but the increased performance and the vastly superior cooling solution are what makes the card.

high power consumption from a flagship graphics card is nothing new really.
 
Hrm. That's quite different from the relative power draw rankings being reported by most of the reviewing sites (for example, Anandtech. I suppose other sites may be using some sort of rolling average rather than peak load, it would certainly account for the discrepancy.

On the other hand it may well be that nVidia has been sending out cherry-picked cards to reviewers, but we all know that GPU manufacturers would never do something like that.



Would they? ;)
 
It uses a lot of power yeah, but it does more with the same power draw than a 480 does with it.

More bang pet watts, so to say.
 
Rossi~ "Quote" > power hungry and GTX 470 + overclock would drink your 'lectrics.[/quote]

Was just making the point, for people who think they are going to save on their leccy bill's > 580. It does not bother me as l'm running a 470 850/1700/200 leccy munching monster..lol :D
 
mmj_uk said:
Why would anyone concerned with power consumption buy high end hardware anyway? if I was a green fanatic I'd be running an i3 and lower end graphics card.
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this tbh

when ever ive bought top end cards they've gone into top end, heavily overclocked systems, so heat & noise gets considered, but power consumption rarely, if ever, gets a look in.
 
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