Nvidia unveils the GeForce GTX 780 Ti

[tajoh111]

More evidence for 290x power drinking ways.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/2977/n...rth-the-wait-/

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7457/t...9-290x-review/





Guess what these reviews have in common.

There is a 5870 in both of them.

And there are cards that use about 100 more watts than a 5870..... guess what cards those are.

The gtx 480 and the 290x(in quiet mode). With the card in uber mode this grows to about 130 watts which would make it the biggest power drinking single gpu card of all time by a comfortable margin.

If nvidia didn't cut down the gtx 780 so badly and clock it so conservatively, AMD wouldn't even have that lead. the gtx 780 can be clocked quite a bit higher without increasing power consumption if we look at some reviews of overclocked models at Hardocp or techpowerup.