Do High-End GPUs Waste Power When You're Not Gaming?
But what about for boring day-to-day stuff? Related:Will I Need a New PSU If I Upgrade My GPU? It would be easy to assume that those new beefier GPUs are just all-around power-hungry. Thankfully, that’s not the case. But their idle power consumption varies by a nearly trivial amount. That’s not the exact same power consumption, but it’s a fairly trivial difference. Just search for your card or a similar model and dig in....