During the first days of ceBIT 2010 exhibition appeared information about the requirements of GeForce GTX 480 and GeForce GTX 470 for the power system: for the first video card was recommended the power unit with not less than 600 W, for the second - not less than 550 W. Of course these indices did not reflect the maximum energy consumption level,
since the power unit was designed for the work and with other system components.
Associate gives more precise information about the energy consumption level of fermi video card. According to our associates, GeForce GTX 480 will consume not more than 298 W, and GeForce GTX 470 - not more than 225 W. For comparison we report that Radeon HD 5870 consumes not more than 188 W, and Radeon HD 5970 - not more than 294 W. In this case Radeon HD 5970 is a two-chip video card.