Nvidia Geforce Gtx 980 Geforce Gtx 970 Review Power Consumption Temperatures

The idle consumption figures are where we were expecting them to be at 69 watts each.

The GTX 980 allowed for a total system power consumption of 274 watts, which is 6% less than the GTX 780 Ti and 12% less than the R9 290X. It’s also less than 1% more than the GTX 780 and 13% more power than the GTX 770. The GTX 970 consumed 7% less than the GTX 980 and 11% less than the R9 290.

This time we see that the GTX 970 and GTX 980 used roughly the same amount of power when testing Metro: Last Light, the GTX 980 consumed just 4% more. This meant that the GTX 980 consumed 13% less power than the R9 290X and 8% less than the GTX 780 Ti.

The GeForce GTX 980 allowed for a system consumption of 281 watts in Tomb Raider which was just 1% more than the Radeon R9 290 but 11% less than the R9 290X. The GTX 970 consumed just 5% less than the GTX 980 but that meant it also consumed 4% less than the R9 290.

The Gigabyte G1 Gaming Maxwell cards have amazing thermal performance, running at just over 60 degrees under full load, more than 20% cooler than similar GTX 780 and GTX 780 Ti cards.