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

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drunkenmaster said:
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.
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Meh. The power difference is insignificant for the performance of these cards though. Like I said, its nothing the same as a 560 ti vs a 480.

166 watts for a GTX 680 single card performance vs 103 watts for a 7850, that doesn't convince me that a pair of 7850s would be a wiser choice than one GTX 680, or even one of those VTX 7970s for £359.
 
arekgreenman888 said:
What they do is their business. What we do here is our responsibility to make Britain green again. And I am proudly doing my bit wherever I can.
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Nonsense. We can't claim to care for the environment when we simply export all our manufacturing to China. It's the same with wooden furniture - we may use sustainable forests here but we're buying wood cut down from rainforests in Brazil, which is wreaking havoc on the environment. What China manufactures for us certainly is our business and we cannot simply stick our heads in the sand and pretend that China are the bad guys in the equation.

That said, performance per watt is what we need to focus on. Turbo boost and idle modes are a step in the right direction, while flat-panel monitors are much more efficient than the CRTs monitors they replaced. And Windows has become more power aware, shutting down idle hard-drives and turning off your display when inactive. The computing industry is nowhere near as inefficient and reckless as it used to be.
 
TAC4U said:
Nonsense. We can't claim to care for the environment when we simply export all our manufacturing to China.
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May be you do TAC. I get my shoes from English company based in England called Vegetarian shoes made by English. And many other products. In fact whenever I shop in supermarkets I look where product is made and make a CHOICE to chose more local ones than ones made in New Zealand (ie. kewees.)
 
arekgreenman888 said:
May be you do TAC. I get my shoes from English company based in England called Vegetarian shoes made by English. And many other products. In fact whenever I shop in supermarkets I look where product is made and make a CHOICE to chose more local ones than ones made in New Zealand (ie. kewees.)
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Ok **** this. I'm gonna keep my GTX 480 SLI just because of you, and I might even overclock it :D :D :D

When I'll be driving home in 2,5 hours I will kick my my gas pedal through the floor and think of you and smile. And yes the car is a polluting piece of awesomeness (bmw 330i), just so you know
 
arekgreenman888 said:
May be you do TAC. I get my shoes from English company based in England called Vegetarian shoes made by English. And many other products. In fact whenever I shop in supermarkets I look where product is made and make a CHOICE to chose more local ones than ones made in New Zealand (ie. kewees.)
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Is this from the money you got from begging on you tube?

Op is a nutter and a nuisance, the sooner he's booted from the forums the better.
 
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arekgreenman888 said:
In fact whenever I shop in supermarkets I look where product is made and make a CHOICE to chose more local ones than ones made in New Zealand (ie. kewees.)
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Shopping at a supermarket for local produce?

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Your doing it wrong....
 
Vir said:
When I'll be driving home in 2,5 hours I will kick my my gas pedal through the floor and think of you and smile. And yes the car is a polluting piece of awesomeness (bmw 330i), just so you know
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Remember to drive past his house as well and give it some revs. Maybe some donuts on his driveway to really rub it in :D
 
I know I should not be surprised, it is an internetforum... But, from someone expressing that he is happy that he has a highend card, that in an online test appears to be using comparable little energy, to personally attack a person because he wants to do what he thinks he can to lower his carbon footprint while still using good computers?
I did not feel that he bashed my highly overclocked multicard computer, i don't want to drive my mercedes CL 65 AMG past his house with the pedal to the metal. That seems just childish?!?
One thing is to discover if that test is faulty, and calmly explain or point to errors in the test.
OP started out overly happy, and I think the ones screaming troll, are bringing this thread down to a troll level.
Stop the bickering and get some facts about that card instead, this is just annoying to watch.
 
Curious said:
I know I should not be surprised, it is an internetforum... But, from someone expressing that he is happy that he has a highend card, that in an online test appears to be using comparable little energy, to personally attack a person because he wants to do what he thinks he can to lower his carbon footprint while still using good computers?
I did not feel that he bashed my highly overclocked multicard computer, i don't want to drive my mercedes CL 65 AMG past his house with the pedal to the metal. That seems just childish?!?
One thing is to discover if that test is faulty, and calmly explain or point to errors in the test.
OP started out overly happy, and I think the ones screaming troll, are bringing this thread down to a troll level.
Stop the bickering and get some facts about that card instead, this is just annoying to watch.
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well said
 
bhavv said:
^^ /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.
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Does that bode well for the GTX660, whenever it gets released? Might tempt me to upgrade from my 460 :) I like the idea of a super-efficient card, as I don't game all that often and not above 1080p
 
FoxEye said:
Does that bode well for the GTX660, whenever it gets released? Might tempt me to upgrade from my 460 :) I like the idea of a super-efficient card, as I don't game all that often and not above 1080p
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X2 I'd upgrade from my 560ti to the 7850 and OC the **** out of it...but the new beta drivers from Nvidia and the Adaptive Vsync...is just awesome, no tearing, and no stuttering it's so much smoother. Granted I might just be sensitive to those things

Physx and 3d I could care less about but the Adaptive Vsync is a good reason for me to stick with Nvidia for now...

I just don't want to spend 680 prices to get a powerful power efficient card.
 
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