Gigabyte GeForce GTX 960 G1 Gaming: Killer 1080P Gaming

Name: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 960 G1 Gaming
Brand: Gigabyte

by Marco Chiappetta — Wednesday, September 02, 2015, 01:30 PM EDT

Before bringing this article to a close, we'd like to cover a couple of final data points -- namely, power consumption and noise. Throughout all of our benchmarking and testing, we monitored acoustics and tracked how much power our test system was consuming using a power meter. Our goal was to give you an idea of how much power each configuration used while idling and also while under a heavy workload. Please keep in mind that we were testing total system power consumption at the outlet here, not just the power being drawn by the graphics cards alone.

Total System Power Consumption

Tested at the Outlet

power

The Gigabyte GeForce GTX 960 G1 gaming was one of the more power friendly cards we tested. Under both idle and load conditions, the card consumed only slightly more power than the more affordable GeForce GTX 950, which was released a few weeks back.

The card also ran cool and quite. While idling the GPU hovered in the low-40 degree range, and made no noise whatsoever because the fans on the Windforce 3X cooler spun down completely. Under load, GPU temps only increased to the mid-60s, at which point the fans on the card spun up, but still remained very quiet.

Tags: Nvidia, GeForce, Gigabyte, Gaming, graphics, GPU, gtx 960

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com