Review: GeForce GTX 280
â—† GeForce GTX 280 power consumption test
GTX 200 includes a smart, dynamic power management system, in a word it can provide a more flexible power control than previous generation GeForce cards. There are totally four power modes are employed in GTX 280.
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Idle/2D Power Mode (approx 25W)
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Blu-ray DVD playback mode (approx 35W)
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Full 3D performance mode (varies, worst case TDP 236W)
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HybridPower mode (card shut down, 0W )
A PC system with a GTX 280 needs at least a 550W PSU to feed. If you are going SLI you will need at least 750W. Now we will have a look of its real world performance rather than the all these chit chat.
In our test all these cards are all retail versions, in their default frequency and default cooler. Please notice all the data we collect is power consumption of the whole platform.
The data we collected is through two way: idle mode is idle in OS for 15minutes and stress mode is using ATITOOL Show 3D View to stress GPU.
Test platform：
Intel Core 2 Quad QX9650(400MHzX10)
Asustek MAXIMUS EXTREME
ADATA DDR3-1066 1GBx2
Seagate ES.2 500G
Evercool CPU Cooler
Silverstone DA750 PSU
So it is pretty clear that GTX 280 have a advanced power manage system, in idle it is lower than Radeon HD 3870 x2 with 55nm technology and PowerPlay, but if we stress the card it will climb up to 334W.
Page 1: GTX 280: A closer look
Page 2: GTX 280: A closer look part 2
Page 3: GTX 280: cooler
Page 4: Test Platform setup
Page 5: GTX 280 vs 9800GX2
Page 6: GTX 280 vs Radeon HD 3870X2
Page 7: HD video playback test
Page 8: GeForce GTX 280 power consumption test
Page 9: GeForce GTX 280 temperature and overclock test
Page 10: Final words
June 18th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
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June 18th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
What is the default fan speed?
June 18th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
Good review although i don’t understand why you left out the HD tests of the ATI card.
Also we clearly see here that the 30% difference of the 4870X2 against the GTX 280 is a result of the bad AA performance of the rv670s.
Just imagine what will happen once the R700 comes out with the new improved cores. I forsee that 30% to be switched and enlarged!
June 19th, 2008 at 8:42 pm
Since it is possible to use 55nm on the GTX 280/260 it is possible to increase the numbers of transistors and initial sizes of the core and they would hopefully create a GTX 280/260ULTRA or even better, a GX2
June 20th, 2008 at 3:30 am
Yet Nvidia STILL lags behind ATI for using the latest technology. STILL no Directx 10.1, STILL no Shader model 4.1. Both of which are the official standard. I guess their cards just can’t handle it.
June 20th, 2008 at 10:46 am
@PSOLORD,
we all know that in HD both companies keep the spec unchanged, so we only tested it with older NV cards.
June 20th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
I hope I see an ULTRA Sooner or later