Quote Originally Posted by boxleitnerb View Post
I don't know where it was in other reviews, but hardware.fr, PCGH, ht4u and Computerbase have been preheating Kepler cards from day one. Not finally several other sites begin to do it, among them hardwarecanucks, techreport and Anandtech iirc.
And it IS a stock vs stock comparison. Quiet mode is the stock setting, uber mode isn't.
I don't know about the rest of them, which I doubt, but hardware.fr definitely did not. If they did, they didn't mention it.
Uber is stock. Maybe you meant to say Uber isn't default?



Quote Originally Posted by boxleitnerb View Post
The power consumption numbers there are not strange for one very simple reason. 3DCenter compiles values mostly from realistic gaming scenarios, i.e. with pre-heating (at least HT4U, PCGH and hardware.fr). This leads to all Nvidia Boost 2.0 cards clocking lower due to the 80C temperature target being hit, thus they also consume less power.
I don't need to look at "any" GTX 480 review, because this compilation of measurements is far better. Most reviews test the whole system which is very prone to errors. Where else on the web do you have 5-6 measurements of the consumption of the card itself? Nowhere.

Btw still waiting on proof on your claim that Fermi could use 300+W under gaming loads...
I didn't see them mention the list of games they used for power consumption.
I don't see them testing the card by itself...

I thought you didn't need to look at GTX480 reviews. You supposedly know it all.
I don't recall you asking for 5870 to be clocked up so that it could be at the same temperatures as GTX480... or the same power consumption.

Shifting the parameters. Tsk tsk.