Gigabyte Geforce Gtx 570 1280Mb Review Power Consumption Temperatures

The GeForce GTX 570 was 8% more efficient than the GTX 480 and while it consumed a similar amount of power to that of the GTX 470 it was considerably more power hungry than the Radeon HD 5870 using 15% more power. Although the GeForce GTX 570 uses slightly less power than the GTX 580 they both operate at the same idle and load temperatures when using the Nvidia reference coolers. This is not a bad thing as it means that GeForce GTX 570 is a relatively cool operating high-end graphics card.