Now I got my hands on the card, and after a cleaning and a messy cable running session...
Here are the numbers that
somehow a few people a waiting for. Saaaaaaadly...
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The numbers are hovering at 80~100W range. Using quiet BIOS, if that matters.
Without the M27U (the 4K monitor) it will average at ~22W, with lows of 7W if I wait hard enough.
Also, the screenshot function doesn't work perfectly probably because of various monitor scaling / position, but I digress.
Other things I tried that
didn't help the situation:
Changing color depths of M27U from 10bpc to 8bpc
Changing resolution of M27U 4K to 1080p (I can guess from the Windows setting screen that signal output is still 4K)
Changing refresh rate of M27U (default 150Hz, tried 144Hz, 60Hz, 59.94Hz)
Flipping the switch for Eyefinity for the
second time (see below
Things that
helped the situation in the wrong way:
Flipping the switch for Eyefinity for the
first time
(because of the wacky positioning, of course that's gonna be a horror show. Maybe because I touched some other monitor settings for the monitors, the second time I flipped the switch the power draw stayed high.
The physical space constraint means that I can't put 3 monitors horizontally at the same time. But moar monitors are moar monitors, hence the wacky positioning / config.)
I really didn't think this through huh? What an idiot I am. : /
Now if Windows always remember to turn off the monitors...
( I guess maybe it's the trivial things I run that took away the attention of Windows. )
I swear the SG really isn't 61mm tall after I measured and put both cards next to each other for comparison.
Also, I really hate alcohol beverages (allergy I guess, but also general hate), but I appreciate the thoughts out there...