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KFA2 GeForce GTX 560 Ti LTD OC 1GB card in-depth review

by Tarinder Sandhu on 3 February 2011, 06:43 4.0

Tags: KFA2

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Power consumption

Appreciating that gaming performance is, as expected, solid, we're actually more interested in the power consumption, temperatures, and noise.

There's a 20W power-draw increase when going from the reference card to KFA2's. This is a good result considering the extra power the GPU needs to consume when running at faster-than-default frequencies. Tellingly, the consumption is significantly lower than the Gigabyte SOC's, though it can't rival the Radeon HD 6950's.

FurMark exacerbates the power-draw deviation between the GPUs, where the comparison Radeon consumes 45 fewer watts while the also-overclocked Gigabyte requires an additional 65W.