Quote Originally Posted by spursindonesia View Post
Hmm, that 130 w more, that's the total system consumptions comparison, right ? not just the comparison beetween the power consumption of the cards themselves. The system with Fermi in it might work a bit harder so not all of the power difference goes to the card itself. And it still has to account the efficiency of the PSU.

But i think, and it seems, ATi is more conservative with its TDPs on HD 58xx series compared to nVidia Fermi's TDPs.
well, if you use the same test-setup and the same benchmark and you get 130W more power consumption for the Fermi run vs the 5870 run, than it's pretty conclusive that Fermi consumed 130W more during that test.