![]() Thermally speaking we were quite impressed with the EVGA GTX 980 Ti SC ACX 2.0. An eye is kept out for anomalous runs, if an anomaly occurs I shut the machine down let it cool off, reboot and rerun the test. I repeat that same process three times then average the three runs and report those scores. Temperaturesįor Thermal readings I looked Unigine Heaven for 30 minutes then read the thermal load, Cool the machine down for 30 minutes at an idle then read the Idle temperatures. Install a tankless water heater and watch the electric bill drop but don’t be blaming your GPU unless you Fold At Home or Bitmine. The average user is lucky to run 2 – 3 hours a day gaming and at that rate the power a GPU consumes is a pretty minor part of the power bill. Face it with Titans, GTX 980 Ti and high end AMD GPU’s you’re not looking for a power consumption friendly GPU you are looking for raw playing power and the EVGA GTX 980 Ti SC ACX 2,0 delivers that hands down. ![]() Now drive the fully overclocked Haswell CPU to the max while stressing the GPU at almost 100% full time and the system was pulling 379w. You expect major GPU offerings to consume a little power but at an idle the EVGA GTX 980 Ti SC ACX 2.0 pulled 78w from the wall and that’s total system consumption. ![]() Killing two birds with one stone and getting Power Consumption and Thermals. Once completed I take the three results from each test and average them giving me an aggregate average for each result. We take power consumption at the wall using a Kill A Watt Power drain measurement device, I loaded Unigine Heaven and let it idle for 30 minutes recorded the Idle temperature and Power Consumption, shut it down and let it cool for a half hour then repeated the test twice in this sequence, For the load I ran Unigine Heaven looping for 30 minutes, let it cool down to the Idle temps established in the previous test then looped it 30 minutes repeating the process a total of 3 times. ![]() Temperatures, Noise, Power, & Overclocking Power Consumption
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