Videocard wattage?

[xFlankerx]

I've been looking around, but can't find out how many watts today's videocards take up. I've heard about the 250W or so that the DX10 cards are going to pull, and I think the current videocards take up around 100W, but still wanted to confirm that.

 

[[Spectre]]

These may also be of help:

Power Consumption of Contemporary Graphics Accelerators: ATi
Power Consumption of Contemporary Graphics Accelerators: Nvidia

Power Consumption 7800gt
Power Consumption 6800GS

Power Consumption Radeon X1800XT, and X1900XTX

Power Consumption GeForce 7800 GTX, GTX 512

Breakdown of where Nvidia 7xxx series and ATI x1xxxx series draw power from

 

[defaultluser]

Here is a more up-to-date article that also includes noise levels.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/power-noise.html

Short answer, easier to look up (for those who don't want to read and digest all that):

ATI x1000 series:

x1300 and x1600 are reasonably low power, 30-40w.

x1800 uses around 50-100w, depending on the revision (GTO < XL < XT)

x1900 uses from 75w to 125w (x1900 GT < XT < XTX < x1950 XTX)

NVIDIA 7000 series:

7300 uses around 20-25w (GS < GT)

7600 series uses 25-35w (GS < GT)

7800 series uses 60-80w (GT < GTX)

7900 series uses 45-110w (7900 GS < 7900 GT < 7950 GT < 7900 GTX < 7950 GX2)

Personally, if the next generation cards use more than 150w, I will refuse to purchase them. There is such a thing as "too much." With what Nvidia has been able to do with their move to 90 nm, I will expect nothing less.