Graphic cards’ power consumption compared

Graphic circuits has just as CPUs grown and become more and more complex the past few years which has made the demands for more power rise fast. You need a lot of juice to keep these advanced circuits running. Depending on computer and applicaton used this may very well become a problem and at X-bit Labs they’ve therefore taken it upon themselves to investigate most of the mid and high end cards available today to see how much power they consume. As expected there is a big difference between the cards but when the high end cards of today consume about 120W at full load you have to realize that the choice of PSU is getting more and more important such.

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