The requirements of video card for power units grow with time . For the ( high end ) graphic accelerator GeForce 4 Ti 4600 only 25 watts was sufficient in its time. The representatives GeForce FX already imperatively required additional power, after raising the limit to 75 watts, and now practically all high end video cards are equipped by one six and one octal pin power connector, which ensure in conjunction with the PCI express bus energy input up to 300 watts.
Associate compared the energy consumption of 53 video card from AMD and NVIDIA production in the idle and load regimes.
The most interesting is the energy consumption under load for contemporary DX10 video cards:
The first place with 308 watts is occupied by the Radeon HD 4870 X2. The second place with 245 watts was for the GeForce 9800 GX2. Related Products :
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