| | | Author: Michael "SKYMTL" Hoenig
Date: July 21, 2010
Product Name: EVGA GTX 460 1GB Superclocked EE
| | | System Power Consumption For this test we hooked up our power supply to a UPM power meter that will log the power consumption of the whole system twice every second. In order to stress the GPU as much as possible we once again use the Batch Render test in 3DMark06 and let it run for 30 minutes to determine the peak power consumption while letting the card sit at a stable Windows desktop for 30 minutes to determine the peak idle power consumption. We have also included several other tests as well. Please note that after extensive testing, we have found that simply plugging in a power meter to a wall outlet or UPS will NOT give you accurate power consumption numbers due to slight changes in the input voltage. Thus we use a Tripp-Lite 1800W line conditioner between the 120V outlet and the power meter.
Naturally, since this is an overclocked card it exhibits higher than reference power consumption but the increase is quite reasonable given the extra performance.
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