Quote Originally Posted by K404 View Post
ROFL BS it has to be a typo

7% more SP is not gonna add 200W more onto the power consumption. No HSF could handle it.


Y'know what... say for the sake of discussion it IS real..... IMHO there should be a law against bringing out such inefficient electronic equipment.
typo no, user error seems more likely (unless the guy wrote down the wrong number and never thought twice about his findings)

Under full load the GPU voltage of reference GTX 480 was 1.0V, while 512SP edition was 1.056V. Surprisingly, the full spec’ed GTX 480 sucked 644W power, which was 204W higher than 480SP GTX 480!
the fact they talk about it using so much more shows thats what they are seeing, but then comes the question of why. just by knowing the C/W of whatever cooler they are using, and that the load temps are 94C, its clearly not that much more than 480SPs

but their temp chart is a little funny looking too,



notice how the temp goes up almost linear to 94C, and the fan speed tries to follow in an almost liner fashion, and does not get much faster after reaching 94C was first reached. and that somehow 94C is a perfectly flat line

im worried its way past 94C