Quote Originally Posted by kite7 View Post
Are you just looking at TDP? Look at the power consumption, it consumes less than GTX 570.
Its not really that significant review 13W difference from gtx580.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Reference Design 246 W
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 Reference Design 241 W
ATI Radeon HD 5870 Reference Design 240 W
ATI Radeon HD 6970 Reference Design 233 W