NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX Round-Up: BFG, EVGA, Zogis
Before we bring this article to a close, we'd like to cover a few final data points. Throughout all of our benchmarking and testing, we monitored how much power our test systems were consuming using a power meter. Our goal was to give you all an idea as to how much power each configuration used while idling and 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 motherboards alone.
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Our power consumption measurements yielded some interesting results. In a single-card confugration, the GeForce 9800 GTX consumed less power than the GTS 512MB under both idle and load conditions, which is a surprise considering it essentially a higher clocked version of the card. In an SLI configuration, power was right on-par with the GTS setup, and in a three-way configuration the new GTXes consumed a bit more power than the Quad-SLI setup.
