NVIDIA GT200 Rumours & Speculation Thread

[AlphaWolf]

I'm a forty year old father of two in a centrally-heated four bedroom home. My power bill is calculated by the KW/h. My PC graphics card is insignificant in the overall cost.

If you say so.

So what's your point?

If you're saving 50watts an hour that's potentially 1.2 KW/h a day, or $3-4 a month for someone that leaves their PC on all the time (or for someone like me who powers down when its not in use its about 1/3 of that). You don't have to be a tree hugger to just use good sense, but the fact that it helps the environment isn't exactly a downside.

 

[ChrisRay]

As a long time SLI user who lives in southern US. I sure as hell care about how much heat my PC dumps into my room. Hence why Hybrid Power is such a big deal to me.

 

[Kowan]

Who gives a crap about idle power?

I'm betting you don't, but I'm running 8800GTXs and they produce heat, noise and use power while not gaming.

If I can save money when not gaming, it's a win win situation for me.

 

[MulciberXP]

I'm betting you don't, but I'm running 8800GTXs and they produce heat, noise and use power while not gaming.

If I can save money when not gaming, it's a win win situation for me.

Same here. Honestly idle power draw is the FIRST thing I find myself look at in reviews these days.

I have a 8800gtx O/C at the moment, but only because I just bought a 24" LCD. Once that kind of performance moves to mainstream I'll be getting a new card and idle power consumption will again be at the top of my list.

 

[XMAN26]

NM, miss read the page I was going to post.

 

[annihilator]

Here's our little boy, and no HDMI

http://www.vr-zone.com/articles/Detailed_Geforce_GTX_280_Pictures/5826.html

 

[Pete]

Unless you're a power saving, save the planet, tree-hugger type

So, your position is that of the what? The well-adjusted family man with his priorities in order? :smile:

the watts at idle is completely insignificant - the noise of the fan is far more important IMHO.

Would you like to connect the dots, or should I?

Who gives a crap about idle power?

AIBs and so NV might, if that power savings trickles down into the budget end of the spectrum.

Sure, power draw isn't as important as speed and IQ at the enthusiast class, but to say it's unimportant is equally ridiculous. Why not have power and efficiency?

Core... I doubt this is the entire card, though it shouldn't increase that number too much.

You're saying NV's # is for the GT200 core itself, not including its RAM? Even I'd doubt the PR dept. could stoop that low.

 

[Lukfi]

Hmm, everyone is praising GT200 for its idle power consumption, but how do you know R700 won't be even better?

 

[BRiT]

Here's our little boy, and no HDMI

You run HDMI using a $6 DVI -> HDMI connector.

 

[Pete]

Lukfi, there's another thread for that, but if they could get a dual-GPU R700 idling like a single GT280, I'd be impressed.

 

[annihilator]

I know. But still, am I wrong?

 

[HAL]

http://www.vr-zone.com/articles/GeForce_GTX_280_GPU-Z_Screenshot/5828.html

 

[annihilator]

So all rumors were correct

 

[Lukfi]

Not all of them. Some claimed GT200 will be a 55nm chip and I must admit I believed it until a few days ago.

 

[Thorburn]

GPU-Z doesn't PROVE anything, both it and CPU-Z are in a large part a database, you look up a few simple things (CPUID or Device ID, etc) and pull the details up based on that - this is how it knows the die size. It'll then try and read out what you can for other sections (clock speeds for example - which are blank as the program doesn't know how to read them for GT200).

So a GPU-Z shot of an unreleased product simply gives you the authors best guess on the same rumors we have.

 

[AlphaWolf]

6pin + 8pin confirms power use.

 

[Entropy]

Hmm, everyone is praising GT200 for its idle power consumption, but how do you know R700 won't be even better?

It may well be, but that doesn't mean that nVidias improvement isn't worthy of praise, particularly if it trickles down the entire product line - the GT200 is hardly going to be a volume part.

 

[Richard]

I'm a forty year old father of two in a centrally-heated four bedroom home. My power bill is calculated by the KW/h. My PC graphics card is insignificant in the overall cost.

So what's your point?

Others have already rebutted your "I have enough money" argument and I don't like to beat a guy when he's down... but in your case I'll make an exception.

You do at least realise that it's because of people like you, with that mindset, that we're in the situation we're in, right? Because I'd hate to think lurkers in this site share the same egocentric views on power efficiency as you do. If you don't like clean air or clean water, at least rejoice that you can use the monthly savings to buy your children some extra games.

Anyway, power efficiency, especially on IDLE states is what is most important to me. In fact, overall power efficiency has surpassed price as my number one priority when shopping.

As for the topic, I'm glad NV has finally seen the light and joined ATI in releasing more efficient hardware. The power draw at full clip is staggering though. I'm much more interested in mainstream hardware and I hope the predicted chasm between GT280 and GT260 does not pan out.

 

[Lukfi]

=>Entropy: It will "trickle down" to the GTX 260, but no farther than that, at least for now. Remember nVidia said that G92 is gonna stay for "6-8 to 12 months".

 

[Kaotik]

You run HDMI using a $6 DVI -> HDMI connector.

No visible place for SPDIF In > You run without sound