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NVIDIA 4000 Series

I was playing the Horizon Zero Dawn Remaster in 4k yesterday on my 4080 Super, I noticed it was running at 100% but power usage was anywhere between 180-200W? Which is very low.

Then if I opened Bullets Per Minute, the usage would still be 100% but power draw of around 300-320W.

This is something i've never really seen before? Both very different in terms of frame rate though, Horizon was more 70-80 FPS, BPM was about 400fps. But does appear to be performing in line with where it should be, so it's not underperforming, was just not expecting the low power draw on such a game at 4k.
 
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Defy Belief said:
I was playing the Horizon Zero Dawn Remaster in 4k yesterday on my 4080 Super, I noticed it was running at 100% but power usage was anywhere between 180-200W? Which is very low.

Then if I opened Bullets Per Minute, the usage would still be 100% but power draw of around 300-320W.

This is something i've never really seen before? Both very different in terms of frame rate though, Horizon was more 70-80 FPS, BPM was about 400fps. But does appear to be performing in line with where it should be, so it's not underperforming, was just not expecting the low power draw on such a game at 4k.
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It's often not the games you'd expect which really push power consumption. Mass Effect: Andromeda produces the highest power draw out of any game I've ever tested, despite being an older, purely rasterized title. Significantly higher than even something like Cyberpunk 2077 with all the bells and whistles enabled.
 
Aretak said:
It's often not the games you'd expect which really push power consumption. Mass Effect: Andromeda produces the highest power draw out of any game I've ever tested, despite being an older, purely rasterized title. Significantly higher than even something like Cyberpunk 2077 with all the bells and whistles enabled.
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Knocking down the AA settings in RDR2 benchmark increased my system power draw by around 100watts (Went from 500watts to over 600watts)

I was expecting it to of been the other way around i thought reducing the AA settings was going knock the power draw down.
 
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hi everyone.

im looking at getting a 4070ti super as an upgrade from my 3060.

Whats everyones thoughts on black friday prices. do we think any are likely to be reduced? personally im not sure theres much margin available for them to be reduced by much....

OC have the Zotac 4070ti super solid for 698, ive not had a zotac before, usually i buy a gigabyte or asus, so another question i guess is are the Zotacs a decent card?

cheers all!
 
tedrodgers said:
Whats everyones thoughts on black friday prices. do we think any are likely to be reduced? personally im not sure theres much margin available for them to be reduced by much....
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I'd say it depends if they want to do a clearance sale or not, since apparently nvidia are cutting production in anticipation of the next launch. I suspect the answer to that is no, but I wouldn't be surprised to see a deal here or there.
 
Tetras said:
I'd say it depends if they want to do a clearance sale or not, since apparently nvidia are cutting production in anticipation of the next launch. I suspect the answer to that is no, but I wouldn't be surprised to see a deal here or there.
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Production has already been cut, no clearance in sight (and I wouldn't count on any). Most 4090 already gone from the market (price gone up, not down), 4080 almost gone, lower sku will soon follow. It's expected there will be a gap between when old cards are gone and people can buy new ones. Very well planned by Nvidia, this time - market will be hungry and will play easier when higher prices.
 
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Tinek said:
Production has already been cut, no clearance in sight (and I wouldn't count on any). Most 4090 already gone from the market (price gone up, not down), 4080 almost gone, lower sku will soon follow. It's expected there will be a gap between when old cards are gone and people can buy new ones. Very well planned by Nvidia, this time - market will be hungry and will play easier when higher prices.
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yeh i think i agree with that. looking around there is very little sign of any deals and a 4070ti super under 700 seems a decent buy at this point for my budget.
 
tedrodgers said:
yeh i think i agree with that. looking around there is very little sign of any deals and a 4070ti super under 700 seems a decent buy at this point for my budget.
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Nvidia is like Apple in this case - they control pricing very well and make sure their products do not get devalued. Used market they can't control but that's miniscule in size in comparison to retail, so largely irrelevant most of the time.
 
gpuerrilla said:
Dont get @CAT-THE-FIFTH started! :p
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The whole tech world seems to have copied the Apple model. However,in the long term it meant western companies increasingly have favoured margins over volume,which has allowed other countries to get a foot into other markets.

@KompuKare might have something to add to that.

Tinek said:
Nvidia is like Apple in this case - they control pricing very well and make sure their products do not get devalued. Used market they can't control but that's miniscule in size in comparison to retail, so largely irrelevant most of the time.
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Nvidia started doing this during the Turing era. They jacked up pricing of Turing so that all the excess Pascal stock made for miners could be cleared out at a minimal discount. When it came to all the excess Ampere stock,they cleared most of it through PC builders IMHO and jacked up pricing of Ada Lovelace.
 
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Hi can anyone advise the difference between the Asus GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER ProArt OC 16GB GDDR6X PCI-Express Graphics Card and the Asus GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER TUF OC 16GB GDDR6X PCI-Express Graphics Card. The ProArt version is currently in stock for £959.99 whereas the Super Tuf version is currently out of stock.
 
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