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I wonder what the idle power usage of one of these would be? I wish my motherboard allowed me to turn off the dedicated card and fall back to the Intel chipset

I wonder what the idle power usage of one of these would be? I wish my motherboard allowed me to turn off the dedicated card and fall back to the Intel chipset when I didn't need the performance.

tjohns 11y ago
From the slides in Nvidia's presentation, it looks like the max power consumption is about 180 W. That puts it squarely between the GTX 980 (165 W) and the GTX 980 Ti (250 W). Idle power consumption is an order of magnitude less. For the 980 Ti, you're looking at about 10 W of power consumption while running outside of a gaming application. Maybe 40 W if you're doing something intensive. [1] [1]: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/nvidia-geforce-gtx-980-ti,4164-7.html http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/nvidia-geforce-gtx-980-t...
tgb 11y ago
My laptop does that, but it's frequently a pain. Pull up a demo of OpenGL ES stuff on Chrome and it won't switch to to the dedicated card, even if I ask it to since Chrome 'isn't a graphics application'. Plus Linux drivers for it are hit-or-miss (it's improved since launch). Still a good idea though and it keeps the fan from running much of the time.