Power Consumption

We tested the power consumption with a Watts Up? Pro power meter, using the device to record the total system power consumption at the wall socket, while we ran three sets of four runs of Crysis in DX10 at 1920x1200.

Using the data recorded by the meter we could determine the peak output, the consistent minimum and the average load over the entire run of tests.

As both ATI and Nvidia test benches are now identical Core i7 systems, we can accurately determine the apples to apples difference of what power both PCs take to run.




Interestingly, the BFG Tech GeForce GTX 285 OCX's idle power consumption is much lower than what we recorded for the other GeForce GTX 285s we've tested so far - it's around 9W better, which equates to just over four percent. At load, power consumption increases to somewhere in line with expectations - it draws roughly the same amount of power as the Zotac GeForce GTX 285 on average and at peak as well.