Even if the performance of a graphics card means a lot it is actually not the only variable you should have in your equation when buying a graphics card. Power consumption, heat and noise are usually the most common other variables to most people. A loud graphics card can be just as distrurbing as too low FPS with your favorite game. At X-bit Labs they’ve published an article where they take a closer look at graphics cards’ power consumption and cooling. All to see what solutions that are the most efficient and where you as a consumer gets the most. They test most card from the high-end segment all the way down to the budget market to see whether ATI or NVIDIA is the best choice in each category.
