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Interesting Statistics of Power Usage Over GPU Years

more performance while at the same time using less power can only be a good thing imo

I don't know why so many folks knock it
 
I dropped down to a single Titan for 1080P gaming in the summer, purely for the fact that the heat was a killer. Water cooled or not, the same heat is generated and dispersed into the room and as my room is quite small, it didn't take long to become uncomfortably hot. These 980s/970s are great for TDP and as such would be better overall for long term gaming. With Winter coming (Winter is coming :p), it won't matter so much but the Summer is a big plus for these new cards.
 
Geeman1979 said:
Also potentially not having to upgrade an ageing PSU because you've upgraded to more powerful card/cards.
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Very true, just recently splashed out on a 1000w psu as I didn't trust my old hx 850 with the spec in sig. Could have kept it and bought two 970's. But hindsight is a wonderful thing lol.:D

And +1 for winter coming, finally be able to game without a frame limit. My gpu's chuck out so much heat its causing high cpu temps. Frame limit off, 70c max core temp, limit on 59c. 4790k at 4.7ghz, 1.300v.
 
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very nice

impressive for the 980

my 290 rig pulls about 200w at idle and 450-500w (this is overclocked with volts bump though) depending on clock at full tilt - but it is near silent - the Tri-X fans even overclocked only go to 35% and I can't hear over case fans :)

my 480 was a monster I think I saw over 550W + running Furmark

my 3870x2 was ridiculous
 
Lol, I tend to do mad side/upgrades now and again. CPU wise I've went through two ib chips and 3 haswells in the past 18 months. A pair of titan cooled 970's would run a bit cooler than my wf 78's. The sake of which would go a very long way to funding a change.
 
shankly1985 said:
Less power means nothing to the end user. Do you really think for one second, that you start saving money on your power just for using a 980?
Over say 290x?

Lol
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Lol?

Yes you do save money using less watts per hour. Let's have a look.

Notional figures.

Say you have a 100 watt difference and you have the card for a year at an average of 6hrs usage per day.

100 x 6 = 600

600 x 7 = 4200 / 1000

=4.2kWs a week
4.2 x 52weeks = 218.4 kWs a year.

Now times that by your kWhr tarrif, say 13p

That is around a saving of 28ish pounds.

So to correct you, yes you do start saving straight away.
 
Stanners said:
Lol?

Yes you do save money using less watts per hour. Let's have a look.

Notional figures.

Say you have a 100 watt difference and you have the card for a year at an average of 6hrs usage per day.

100 x 6 = 600

600 x 7 = 4200 / 1000

=4.2kWs a week
4.2 x 52weeks = 218.4 kWs a year.

Now times that by your kWhr tarrif, say 13p

That is around a saving of 28ish pounds.

So to correct you, yes you do start saving straight away.
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Compare a 290x vs 980 under load you hardly saving anything.. What I mean is its not something you will ever notice, Would you honestly notice you saved 28ish pounds in the year?
 
shankly1985 said:
Compare a 290x vs 980 under load you hardly saving anything.. What I mean is its not something you will ever notice, Would you honestly notice you saved 28ish pounds in the year?
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I would not care, but some people justify buying one brand over the other on a saving? Maybe these people care as they are more cash conscious.

Anyone know the power draw difference between a 980, 290x and say a 780?
 
290x uses over 100w more than a 980 under load

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Buckster said:
any news of release date of said Titan cooled 970s ?
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Not sure tbh, it was something Gibbo mentioned in on of the various threads. An ocuk branded model iirc. But I'm sure there will be others too. And possibly a bit cheaper than the current stock of mainly non ref 970's.
 
shankly1985 said:
Compare a 290x vs 980 under load you hardly saving anything.. What I mean is its not something you will ever notice, Would you honestly notice you saved 28ish pounds in the year?
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What your failing to notice is that you add all your power saving items up together and this can save you hundreds of pounds...

Lower power GPU's
Lower Power CPU's
Lower power PC monitor's
Lower power TV's
Lower Power light bulbs
ETC ETC

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My old PC with SLI GTX 580 & e8500
Idle was over 300watts

My newer PC with SLI GTX 780ti's & i4770k
Idle at 160watts

My old dell 2405 & U2410 24" PC monitors were 80watts & 75watts

My new Dell 27" U2713m PC monitor draws only around 40watts

My 3 energy saving light bulbs in just my living room are using only 33watts compare with the 140watts of the last bulbs
Plus about another 8 high wattage light bulbs in the house were changed to low watt energy saving bulbs

My new washing machine & fridge/freezer are meant to have good energy saving (but I no idea how much they use or save compared to the old ones)

It all adds up.........;)
 
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it all adds up to change also

so whilst I agree power savings in cost terms are always debatable

I've been changing to LED bulbs recently, but they're not cheap, spending say £100 to swap to a new lower power GPU would take what 4 years to make up - ie not worth it if just changing to save power

treat it as a bonus :)

I'm glad my TV at least is super energy efficient (Panasonic ZT65 Plasma) - but hey - who cares sometimes quality over power saving :)
 
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