NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 Temperatures Power Consumption & Acoustics Linus Tech Tips
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·2011-05-08
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so this video is going to be about the GTX 590 compared to its closest
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competition in terms of power and noise
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so that would be the 6990 as well as two
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GTX 580s in SLI so the first thing I'm
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going to do is I'm going to take an idle temperature as well as an idle power
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reading on the GTX 590 so the idle
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temperature right now is about 35 or 36°
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depending on whether we can actually get the camera to focus for you guys or not
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there we go so 30 let's say 35° on the
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GPU cores and then we've also got our idle
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power at the wall being about 96
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Watts so what I'm going to do is I'm going to put audio Snippets at the end
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of the video so if you just want to see just if you just want to hear how these
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cards compare to each other in terms of noise then you can skip there otherwise
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I'll show you guys the temperatures and power consumption all along for all the
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these different solutions just so you guys know for the max power I using the
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batch size test as recommended by Sky MTL from Hardware conu I'm going to
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repeat that test so that'll give me a nice high GPU temperature as well as a
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maximum power load so here we go so our
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load power consumption for the GTX 590
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clocks in at around 340 watt so we're
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just going to record that as 340 and uh
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you can see there's a cat investigating it and our maximum temperatures after
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running this particular little Benchmark or rather our stable
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temperatures are 78 and 79° on each of the gpus so we'll call
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that
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79 and I really wish that window would go away I don't care I don't care 78 so
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there you go or 79 rather um so we'll go
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ahead and record that in our
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little uh Power W there really is quite a dramatic difference
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between the maximum power and the uh and
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the minimum power NVIDIA's really done a good job of uh clocking down the GPU
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when it's not being used you can see right now it's actually stepping down
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right now so it goes all the way down to 51 mahz on the
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GPU Focus there you go very nice very
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cool all right so there's my idle power consumption for the Radeon 6990 so we'll
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call that 132 and I should write that on my handy
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little chart at some point and then um
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oh hold on let's just do that and then
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here are my idle temperatures so it settles in around
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41° on the GPU that has less ventilation
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so the one at the back of the card and 39° on the GPU at the front of the card
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so there there's our idle values so here's the max power
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consumption of the radon HD 6990 for the
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sake of argument why don't we say around
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400 varies let's take the Peaks almost
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the peak so we'll say about 405 Watts
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cuz it sort of Rises and dips so we're running the 3D Mark test and uh let's
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have a look at what we achieved in terms of maximum temperatures
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bringing up after burner here so our Max
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temps Peak this is artificial um but
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they peaked at around 85 and
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82° on both of the gpus so here I'm just
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going to make it focus focus focus thank you all right so 85 and 82° were my Peak
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temperatures on the
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gpus so let's call that a 15 50 wat
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idle total system power draw and bearing
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in mind that all of these numbers for the power are coming through an 80 plus
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silver Power Supply so you got to kind of uh factor that in if you want to
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figure out how much power they're actually consuming so this is two GTX
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580s both of them are stock clocked reference designs and our idle
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temperatures are actually come in similar on one of them okay so similar
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on this one this is the bottom GPU at 34° and then quite a bit higher so the
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reason that second one is quite a bit higher is that there's only that much
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space for the fan to draw air in whereas the GTX
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590 is getting fresh air for both of the
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gpus going out either side so uh let's
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get some load temps and load power consumption going on here and then we
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will have some commentary at about
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465 Watts the GTX 580 solution consumes
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the most power out of all of the configurations that are here so that's
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uh going with the two dedicated dual gpus rather than a single dual GPU card
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uh in both cases consumes more power it is
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um the highest performing solution out of all of the ones that we've looked at
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so that's to be considered as well although sometimes the margin is
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substantial and other times it's less substantial uh no it's fairly
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substantial for the most part just looking at uh at these numbers here
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anyway so uh yeah I'll show you the load
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temps it's me in my pink shirt so for
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load temps we're looking at 82 and 77° so that GPU uh that is starving for air
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in the middle uh really well does starve for air a little bit and I think that's
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pretty much it guys so stay stay tuned and I'm going to show you all the audio
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samples from these cards thanks for checking out this video don't forget to
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