Power Consumption
Here’s the power supply’s total consumption. This sums up the consumption of the configuration as a whole including the Tagan U15 530 W power supply losses, which are 20% on the range of power considered here.
As expected the GeForce 8800 GTS 512 MB, which is based on the G92, raises the power consumption compared to the 8800 GT but not excessively. The rise in the configuration’s power consumption reaches 7 W when idle and 18 W when in peak (this is once the PSU losses have been subtracted). It allows the card to remain below the level of the previous GeForce 8800 GTS, but also below the HD 3870 in peak. While idle, the more advanced process used by AMD allow it to keep the upper hand. This value is without a doubt the most important when it comes to electrical costs and the PC’s carbon-footprint from global use.
joy, so basically, get the 8800gt
OK more tweaking around the ages... Like whatever...
We need a 9xxx series card with 1Gb DDR4 RAM like yesterday please Nvidia!!
Bob
Yeah it is about time we seen a card faster than the gtx, I'm hardly excited that a year later the new cards are "almost" as fast as the gtx
Interesting. Soon they'll unleash the 9 series on us and boost their popularity again. All this feels like the build up to it.
You want to talk about rendering, just get the 8800GTX or Ultra, download the Human Head program and pick up your Jaw after it drops in aw, LOL!
Download here: http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_ [...] loads.html
P.S. I've heard you can run this program on the 8600 Cards as well but the F/R's aren't as good as the 8800 series.