The official premiere GeForce GTX 280 only for 5 hours, and already on the Internet rumors circulate about the power of the card. Tests performed on a computer motherboard based on NVIDIA nForce 790i SLI and Quad Processor Intel Core 2 Quad Extreme QX9650, taktowanym clock 3 GHz.

After inserted into the machine so prepared one card GeForce 280 GTX power consumption of the entire computer was in Idle 147W and 292W under load. In contrast, the two GTX 280 are connected in SLI mode, the computer increased power consumption to 190W in idle and 510W at load.

As you can see, the new card without the orderly power supply is not obejdą, which is not a huge surprise, given the high-profile endowy card. On the other hand, you can see that NVIDIA engineers managed to significantly reduce power consumption in Idle mode, which is a step in the right direction. A performance that can be commend GTX 280? This is already know about 15:00.