Is your 5000 series nVidia card efficient? Idle power draw comparison (5070/5070Ti/5080/5090 & others)

[Sithaer]

Zotac Solid 5070 non OC model with Firefox+this topic opened in the background/2560x1080 resolution 200Hz monitor.
Seems to be between 8-10W. 'I did reset everything back to the factory settings just in case'

Playing a 1440p video on youtube is around 15W.

 

[CheteriagalenTriagalnik]

I'm adding another data point. Another Asus Prime 5070 Ti (non-OC) is idling at about ~20W single monitor, and ~23W multi-monitor. Both monitors 1440p 144hz. The idle power draw there is about what I would expect, and is about half of the idle power that my faulty card (same model, but OC) had.

MSI RTX 5070ti Ventus 3X OC
Monitor 2560x1440 at 120 hz

It idles at 22 Watt (Windows 11 24H2, driver 576.52, monitor 2560x1440 at 120 Hz)

Seems to be within the normal range to be. "Not great; not terrible".

5080 Palit GamingPro
1440p@240hz + 1440p@165hz x2
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Considering you are running a total of three monitors, one of which is an ultra-high refresh rate, and the rest have different refresh rates, I'd say this is acceptable. My faulty card had just about bang on this much with just a single 1440p monitor.

Palit 5090, single HDMI TV, about 40W

Seems normal for the 5090s. The idle power on that class of card just isn't very low. Still, nothing to worry about, tracks with everything else we've seen.

Zotac Solid 5070 non OC model with Firefox+this topic opened in the background/2560x1080 resolution 200Hz monitor.
Seems to be between 8-10W. 'I did reset everything back to the factory settings just in case'
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Playing a 1440p video on youtube is around 15W.

This is great! One of the best results we've seen actually! The 5070 might just be among the winners in the idle power draw contest this time around. I'm happy to see that there are still cards with low idles, and even better - low power during media playback. Even my old GTX 1080 draws ~18W on YouTube. Getting some more data on power draw while watching YouTube videos is actually something I find quite interesting.

 

[:D:D]

W10, single 2K @120Hz. Palit RTX 5070 GamingPro reports the following power usage

Optimal - PState 8, 12W, 34MHz, 700MT/s, 0.8V and PCIe Gen1
Prefer Maximum Performance - PState 0, 28W, 2512MHz, 28000MT/s, 0.935V and PCIe Gen3

Strange that voltage is kept to 0.8V minimum and "Prefer Maximum Performance" seems a little broken in these newer drivers.

 

[londiste]

Idle is a finicky thing.
- Is it on desktop? Any background software running? Any background software running with hardware acceleration? Browser running - which isn't background and usualy runs, uses hardware acceleration and/or wakes up media/video decoders?
- Is it a long idle with screen gone blank?
- I see listing resolution and refresh rate is common in the latter part of the thread - this matters, especially with multiple monitors and/or high resolutions or refresh rates. someone running 1080p 60hz is very likely going to see a different clock speeds on both GPU and VRAM than someone else running dual 2160p 120hz setup. Both Nvidia and AMD tend to tweak the card idle clocks for quite a while post launch to optimize for some edge cases there.

Then there is the configuration. Windows Power Management mode for GPU, PCI-e slot power savings (lowering speeds and/or lanes). Both can and do play a part in power consumption.

Cannot truly contribute to the core topic of the thread as I am still on 4070Ti Super.
Long idle with screens blank it draws 3W.
On desktop - 2160p 120hz and a 1440p 120hz - with IM client or two open, gaming platforms in the background and a browser running is generally around 30W (+-5W).

There have been quite a few applications that prevent GPU from clocking down to idle speeds. Nothing currently but iCUE did it for a while, Epic Games client did if for a while, Skype did it for a while.

 

[:D:D]

Yes, perhaps idle should be defined as it can encompass different rules or at least settings should be known. For instance with this RTX 5070 I have GPU / Memory load can be at 0% but power draw at 200W!, leaky power?

 

[CheteriagalenTriagalnik]

Idle is a finicky thing.
- Is it on desktop? Any background software running? Any background software running with hardware acceleration? Browser running - which isn't background and usualy runs, uses hardware acceleration and/or wakes up media/video decoders?
- Is it a long idle with screen gone blank?
- I see listing resolution and refresh rate is common in the latter part of the thread - this matters, especially with multiple monitors and/or high resolutions or refresh rates. someone running 1080p 60hz is very likely going to see a different clock speeds on both GPU and VRAM than someone else running dual 2160p 120hz setup. Both Nvidia and AMD tend to tweak the card idle clocks for quite a while post launch to optimize for some edge cases there.

Then there is the configuration. Windows Power Management mode for GPU, PCI-e slot power savings (lowering speeds and/or lanes). Both can and do play a part in power consumption.

Cannot truly contribute to the core topic of the thread as I am still on 4070Ti Super.
Long idle with screens blank it draws 3W.
On desktop - 2160p 120hz and a 1440p 120hz - with IM client or two open, gaming platforms in the background and a browser running is generally around 30W (+-5W).

There have been quite a few applications that prevent GPU from clocking down to idle speeds. Nothing currently but iCUE did it for a while, Epic Games client did if for a while, Skype did it for a while.

You're very right! In my opinion, a good measurement would be just windows, with perhaps a web browser, at the native refresh rate and resolution of the monitor/s, which should be specified. Now, of course, there are going to be some small variances, but you can definitely see how some tiers of GPUs are routinely at 10-20W, while others are routinely at 40-50W. You can also notice how some brands tend to have far higher idles than others, even for the same class of GPU.

Yes, perhaps idle should be defined as it can encompass different rules or at least settings should be known. For instance with this RTX 5070 I have GPU / Memory load can be at 0% but power draw at 200W!, leaky power?

200W? Under what condition? "Prefer maximum power"?

 

[:D:D]

Fixed voltage.

Missed the joke the first time

 

[R1nge]

Palit RTX 5070 Ti GamingPro OC V1 (Bios Asus Prime 350W)
12W chip, 30W board
running firefox, discord, spotify, ssh; tried closing everything, except for one tab in firefox and nothing's changed

1 display 2560x1440 at 60Hz 10-bit
Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 21H2
576.80 driver (NVCleanstall)
Upd: forgot to specify color depth

 

[CheteriagalenTriagalnik]

Palit RTX 5070 Ti GamingPro OC V1 (Bios Asus Prime 350W)
12W chip, 30W board
running firefox, discord, spotify, ssh; tried closing everything, except for one tab in firefox and nothing's changed

1 display 2560x1440 at 60Hz 10-bit
Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 21H2
576.80 driver (NVCleanstall)
Upd: forgot to specify color depth
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Unfortunately, I've noticed the Palit cards tend to have high idle this time around. Shame, as otherwise they seem to be pretty good - beefy coolers and typically also a great price. Maybe try disabling letting windows manage colors for apps and setting the NVCP power setting to "optimal".