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EVGA GeForce GTX 260 896MB FTW Video Card
Video Quality, Power Usage & Noise, and Overclocking
HQV
130
130
128
130
130
0
"Score (out of 130
143
HQV
100
100
100
100
100
0
"Score (out of 100
110
Just like the GTX 280, the 260 renders video flawlessly. Personally, I believe that the saturation and contrast are tweaked too high, but that's something that can be corrected for in the driver's PureVideo control panel. 
Power Consumption
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39
43
45
67
75
0
Watts (lower is better)
210.1
95
104
125
130
191
0
Watts (lower is better)
210.1
At idle, both cards consume about the same wattage--which is more than the 25W idle consumption that NVIDIA reports, but I'll bet they're not testing their hardware with Vista Aero enabled; and why turn that off? It's not like 45 is huge number in this arena. The real victory is at load, where the 260 consumes more than 60W less than a 280--and this is a factory-overclocked card, remember? The difference is about 30%, or if you will, a GTX 280 consumes 50% more power at load than a 260. And that makes a world of noise difference. While the 280 is intrusive and hot anytime there're pixels coming out of it, the 260 is very quiet. Silent by most standards. 
Overclocking
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766
666
0
MHz (higher is better)
1316.7
1197
1107
0
MHz (higher is better)
1316.7
Overclocking went through the roof. The card starts about 10% overclocked to begin with, so getting another 90MHz out of the memory and a scary 100MHz from the GPU is outstanding. The best part is that these results are on par with other people's overclocks. EVGA definitely knows how to pick 'em.
Page 1: Introduction, First Looks, Specifications & Test Setup
Page 2: DirectX 10 Titles Page 3: DX9, OpenGL, and Synthetics Page 4: Video, Power, and Overclocking Page 5: Conclusion 
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