So i found this topic on Nvidia forums, its about GTX590 and its power consumption with some scientific CUDA app...
http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=197878
Apparently the GPU has much lower power consumption, when under load, than expected/while playing games/testing with benchmarks. The guy speculates, this might be down to GPU not using some parts like rasterizers or polymorph engines, despite being loaded to full...
For me its pretty interesting, as i bought gtx590 for work with Octane Render, which is CUDA based as well. Unfortunately i cannot confirm anything, as i do not own the consumption measuring device, but i OCed my card to 670 and rendered with it for hours and it was rock solid....
while you have full internet of reports, how the card cant be overclocked, cause it barely manages to run on default clocks due to weak power cascade. I did not try to run any game with both cores on, nor any benchmark or stress test, so it might prove to be unstable on those clocks there.
With Octane it works like charm though, i even tried it (only for 5 minutes as i was afraid after reading those horrible stories of dead cards on stock volts) to run at 700MHz and it seemed ok, there was obvious performance improvement as well (from 5,82 to 6,03 Megasamples)... indeed 5 minutes long stress test is irrelevant, i know.
Still i have a feeling, it would run ok and it might be really down to the lower power consumption of the card at the full load than in games, as the test suggests.
http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=197878
Apparently the GPU has much lower power consumption, when under load, than expected/while playing games/testing with benchmarks. The guy speculates, this might be down to GPU not using some parts like rasterizers or polymorph engines, despite being loaded to full...
For me its pretty interesting, as i bought gtx590 for work with Octane Render, which is CUDA based as well. Unfortunately i cannot confirm anything, as i do not own the consumption measuring device, but i OCed my card to 670 and rendered with it for hours and it was rock solid....
while you have full internet of reports, how the card cant be overclocked, cause it barely manages to run on default clocks due to weak power cascade. I did not try to run any game with both cores on, nor any benchmark or stress test, so it might prove to be unstable on those clocks there.
With Octane it works like charm though, i even tried it (only for 5 minutes as i was afraid after reading those horrible stories of dead cards on stock volts) to run at 700MHz and it seemed ok, there was obvious performance improvement as well (from 5,82 to 6,03 Megasamples)... indeed 5 minutes long stress test is irrelevant, i know.
Still i have a feeling, it would run ok and it might be really down to the lower power consumption of the card at the full load than in games, as the test suggests.
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