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Asus GeForce GTX 970 DirectCU Mini 4096MB

We normally test power demand direct from the VGA card input, with our Keithley Integra unit. Today however we decided to go with a more traditional approach – measuring system wide load, minus the monitor. The system we are using for this review today is detailed HERE.
system power draw
All of the Maxwell cards are efficient and the Asus GeForce GTX 970 DirectCU Mini system consumes a total of 226 watts.

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3 comments

  1. Hmm You mean 3GB GDDR5 + 1GB DDR3 😉 New nV feature to cut down performance lol

  2. Oh my god would you stop with that already. Jesus fucking Christ, that’s all people talk about anymore. Hop on the 3gb bandwagon. Nobody is complaining about the titan x only having a 256 bit memory bus width, with 12 Gb of VRAM, the bottleneck doesn’t get much tighter than that.

  3. Uhm, it’s 3.5gb actually. If you’re gonna troll, at least make an effort.