Performance summary :

Power consumption overview & in detail.

Now before we procede I must point out that the Gigabyte GTX 980 OC uses a handpicked golden sample GM204 chip.Which is why it consumes less power than a reference GTX 980. It's also worthy to note that the reference 970 figures are "emulated". Tom's Hardware used the Gigabyte 970 card to make the measurements but underclocked it to match a reference 970.
These are power consumption measurements for the card alone and not the entire system which is why they're quite low. Tom's Hardware has quite an elaborate setup to isolate the power consumption of the card.
The reference GTX 980 consumes exactly 200W under load, exactly the same as an HD 7970.
Putting at 5W less than a GTX 780 and 44W less than a 780 Ti which actually coincides with Luke's results.
Also 42W under than 290X.
The GTX 970 is more impressive, coming in at 168W, 4W below the GTX 680 and very cool 37W below the GTX 780.


Again the handpicked GM204 in the Gigabyte GTX 980 tops the chart. What's interesting is that AMD isn't really far behind, especially with their Pitcarin GPU powering the R9 270X, 270, 265 & 7870.
















