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7850 is the most eco card there is. Check this test!!!

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That is what I though. This card is like a card of the decade in terms of power/noise/heat ratio. I might even get one crossfire when one is maxed out...

I am so good that God has send me this card for my first build in 5 years. Oh ... blesses all
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Card of the decade. There are a few years left before you could even try to claim that.

Crossfire. Not very green.

I think you'll find that AMD "sent you this card" and it has nothing to do with you being "so good".
 
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Card of the decade. There are a few years left before you could even try to claim that.

Crossfire. Not very green.

I think you'll find that AMD "sent you this card" and it has nothing to do with you being "so good".
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Though I agree with you, I'd think it best we not stroll down that old and beaten path :D.

And tbh, everything from the OPs wildly inaccurate figures to all the blind assertions about what is/isn't the best card ever makes this thread stink of troll :rolleyes:, or in other words, one to steer clear of.
 
Being cautious about power consumption was important back in the days of the 4870 and GTX 480.

I don't think that anyone here has argued that a 7970 consumes too much power though.

From a performance : watt perspective, the GTX 680 pretty much rofflestomps all over any other card. Another card may consume a little less power, but if its only half as fast then who cares?
 
bhavv said:
Being cautious about power consumption was important back in the days of the 4870 and GTX 480.

I don't think that anyone here has argued that a 7970 consumes too much power though.

From a performance : watt perspective, the GTX 680 pretty much rofflestomps all over any other card. Another card may consume a little less power, but if its only half as fast then who cares?
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This.
 
Not sure I fully understand their power figures in this article.

Anandtech shows a lot different results between the 7750 and the 7850 which to me make a lot more sense considering the 7750 is a lower spec card that doesn't require an external power connector. In OCCT the difference in wattage between the 7750 and 7850 systems is 58 watts.. Perhaps they got their products round the wrong way at tweak town :)

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/535?vs=549

Just realised that this has been pointed out on the previous page. Therefore I agree with what was said :)
 
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bhavv said:
Being cautious about power consumption was important back in the days of the 4870 and GTX 480.

I don't think that anyone here has argued that a 7970 consumes too much power though.

From a performance : watt perspective, the GTX 680 pretty much rofflestomps all over any other card. Another card may consume a little less power, but if its only half as fast then who cares?
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This.
 
If you compare 7850 2gb AMD edition to cars it be like a golf gti mk4. Car that you can cruise to Germany over the weekend, filled with beer and good hot girls, having time of a life time.

Then max it out 8 laps on Nerburgring overtaking many faster cars (if your gti is tuned in nicely= OC'd 7850), with hot chicks in seats drink lager and happy hardcore tunes blasting out your 1000w 7.1 surround.

This card is brilliant.
 
^^ /facepalm.

http://hexus.net/tech/reviews/graphics/36509-nvidia-geforce-gtx-680-2gb-graphics-card/?page=16

'Bang4watt' and efficiency scores, GTX 680 rules all. I wouldnt want a 7850 for 'power consumption' because despite using a little less power, it doesnt perform anywhere near as well per watt.

You maybe put two 7850s together in crossfire and come close to or even match the GTX 680 performance, but then you are going to end up using even more power for the same or less performance.

This is the first generation in a long time that I prefer a single high end card (either GTX 680 or 7970) to two mid range cards (dual 7850 or GTX 560 / 570). The single high end cards are simply better in every way.

My GTX 560 tis on the other hand were absolute beasts when the released, close to GTX 480 / 570 performance at the time when overclocked, far far less power consumption. Two of them cost less at first and outperformed a single GTX 580.

Price / Performance, and Watt / Performance is what you look at, not just power consumption alone.

if buying a card right now I'd be getting that VTX dual fan 7970, but I'm going to skip this gen and wait for the 28 nm tock generation next year.
 
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^^ /facepalm.

http://hexus.net/tech/reviews/graphics/36509-nvidia-geforce-gtx-680-2gb-graphics-card/?page=16

'Bang4watt' and efficiency scores, GTX 680 rules all. I wouldnt want a 7850 for 'power consumption' because despite using a little less power, it doesnt perform anywhere near as well per watt.

You maybe put two 7850s together in crossfire and come close to or even match the GTX 680 performance, but then you are going to end up using even more power for the same or less performance.

This is the first generation in a long time that I prefer a single high end card (either GTX 680 or 7970) to two mid range cards (dual 7850 or GTX 560 / 570). The single high end cards are simply better in every way.

My GTX 560 tis on the other hand were absolute beasts when the released, close to GTX 480 / 570 performance at the time when overclocked, far far less power consumption. Two of them cost less at first and outperformed a single GTX 580.

Price / Performance, and Watt / Performance is what you look at, not just power consumption alone.

if buying a card right now I'd be getting that VTX dual fan 7970, but I'm going to skip this gen and wait for the 28 nm tock generation next year.
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You're using a comparison that doesn't have a 7870 or 7850 in it, to prove something, and you're completely incorrect. The 7850/70 are SIGNIFICANTLY more efficient than the 680gtx. The 7950/70 are less efficient(more efficient in some games) but are an architecture aimed at something completely different(useless to gamers, but there is a reason for the higher power consumption the big kepler WILL have significantly worse efficiency than the 680gtx).

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/MSI/HD_7870_Twin_Frozr/24.html

If you notice, a reference 7870 use 103W to a 680gtx's 166W.

It's using over 60% more power for..... 35% more performance(it uses 1920x1080 extreme preset in Crysis 2 for its power testing), sorry it is not even close to more power efficient than a 7870.

it does offer less performance, but its less efficient. 7870's in xfire both perform significantly higher than a 680gtx, and won't use much more than 15-20% more power.

In terms of the 7850, the 680gtx is 60% faster, but uses 90% more power to achieve it, ballpark same efficiency as the 7870.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5699/nvidia-geforce-gtx-680-review/8

this is much harder to see as Anandtech give complete system power, but in Metro 2033 the 680gtx is 32% faster than the 7870, yet uses 52W more power.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5699/nvidia-geforce-gtx-680-review/19

Without hard numbers its hard to say if the 680gtx uses a little more, or the 7870 uses a little less in Metro vs Crysis 2, but a 52W difference is pushing 50% more power usage, for noticeably lower than that in terms of performance increase.
 
If you are not a troll then you are completely clueless :D and a golf gti isn't fuel efficient at all, specially when you load it up with 'hot girls and beer'.
 
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