how much power does a 480 need?

[TheRealDeal]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xFR8AMDNi0

Still crack me up every time

Lol first time i actually watched and listened properly to that was class.

 

[Freddie1980]

Lol first time i actually watched and listened properly to that was class.

Pause it at 1:00 and look at the guys finger on the coffee cup, I'm not sure but I think that was sly non verbal comment aimed at Nvidia.

 

[Gerard]

This much

 

[RavenXXX2]

This cracks me up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNIPcSF5Wms

 

[Mr Krugga]

This cracks me up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNIPcSF5Wms

You have a very... unique sense of humour mate.

 

[coupe69]

This cracks me up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNIPcSF5Wms

Like it

 

[TheRealDeal]

Lmao nice one raven

 

[TheRealDeal]

Ignore

 

[ATIorNvidia]

Running a 480 gtx and done some testing with a plug in power meter.

615w with Prime & Fur Mark running
405w with Prime running
503w with Fur Mark running
272w Idle

That's power draw at the wall socket, you need to factor in effiency. Your PSU is probably about 85% efficient (wild guess as I don't know what PSU you have) so your actual power draw from your whole rig is around 522w.

615 watts just wow

See above.

550w can run a GTX 480/HD 5970 very comfortably.

hi all
i was having a disagreement with someone about how much power a nvidia 480 uses. I think it uses 300 watts at least but the person thinks its a lot less than that. I just didnt want this person to go buy one then find out they needed a new power supply because they think thier 620 watt psu will be enough.

If anyone can help clear this up then thank you in advance

It IS less than that, the GTX 480 is a 250w card. All this 300w nonsense were from the rumors before Fermi was released.

 

[drunkenmaster]

It IS less than that, the GTX 480 is a 250w card. All this 300w nonsense were from the rumors before Fermi was released.

No, its not Nvidia have changed their method of describing TDP thats all.

It IS a 300W card, they call it 250W, my 5850 is a roughly speaking 150W card, they could also have called it a 100W TDP if they wanted, doesn't make it any more truthful.

Every single site, bar none, showed power usage noticeably above 250W for the gpu. Mostly due to the fact that the difference between a system with a 5870 and a 480gtx in max load in gaming/furmark always showed something between 100-120W, and the 5870 is a 180W card.