Manufacturers, but also readers, like to focus on high-end products with high consumption beyond the efficient sweet spot – right? The editors have recently invested a lot of time examining products from a different perspective, testing them efficiently or even “sparingly”. That was well received – and should it be expanded?
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- Economical, efficient or as fast as possible?
- Are you interested in particularly efficient or even energy-saving technology?
- In which areas are you most interested in efficiency?
- How do you feel about efficiency and sustainability?
- Do you want more on the subject of power consumption and efficiency?
- Participation is expressly desired
- The last ten Sunday questions at a glance
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Economical, efficient or as fast as possible?
Top SKUs such as the desktop processor series Ryzen 7000 (“AMD Raphael”) and Core-i-13000 (“Intel Raptor Lake”) or the fastest possible graphics cards such as the lightning-fast GeForce RTX 4090 (test) or the RDNA 3 top models of the Radeon RX 7000 series are mostly the focus of interest.
At the moment, for example, almost everyone wants to know what the traded Radeon RX 7900 XTX and RX 7900 XT cost and what they are capable of. The power consumption to be expected also resonates here and there, but it is not the focus. AMD itself had already said something about efficiency: over 50 percent more performance per watt should be possible compared to RDNA 2 – but at what level?
Are you interested in particularly efficient or even power-saving technology?
How does the community from the ComputerBase forum feel about this topic? What is your focus: A PC that is as energy-efficient as possible, the consumption of which is also low in absolute terms, or a particularly efficient PC that provides a lot of performance compared to the (quite high) consumption, or are consumption and efficiency behind the aspect of performance ?
Are you interested in economical or efficient technology?
- Yes (focus on economy)
- Yes (focus on efficiency)
- No
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The editors would like to know how great the interest in particularly efficient or even particularly energy-saving technology is in general among ComputerBase readers and in particular whether more should be reported on this.
On a scale from 1 to 10, how interested are you in efficient or even economical technology?- 1 = I don't care, performance counts.
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5 = performance yes, but efficient please
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10 = It has to be economical
- Abstention ( Show result)
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Current prime examples of particularly efficient hardware components are, for example, the Full HD efficiency champion AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT (test) and the AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D (test), but the new Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090, especially in high resolutions, is also what in terms of performance per watt, extremely efficient on the go. It just has to be operated that way.
12 entries of performance per watt – 1,920 × 1,080
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- AMD Radeon RX 6600 XT100.0%
- MSI RX 6600 XT Gaming X91.8%
- AMD Radeon RX 680091.0%
- Nvidia GeForce RTX 307087.9%
- AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT87.4%
- Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Ti86.4%
- AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT83.8%
- AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT83.0%
- AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT75.8%
- Nvidia GeForce RTX 306075.6%
- Nvidia GeForce RTX 308072.5%
- Nvidia GeForce RTX 309071.7%
- Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Super69.9%
- Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Ti69.9%
- Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti69.9%
- AMD Radeon RX 570069.2%
- Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 Super69.2%
- Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti68.4%
- Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Super66.1%
- AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT65.6%
- Nvidia GeForce RTX 206065.3%
- Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 Super64.5%
- Nvidia GeForce GTX 108061.4%
- Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 Super59.4%
- AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT57.1%
- Nvidia GeForce GTX 106054.5%
- AMD Radeon RX Vega 6436.0%
- AMD Radeon RX 58032.4%
Unit: percent
Even if the GeForce RTX 4090 is a very efficient graphics card measured in terms of FPS per watt, for many users the high acquisition costs and the overall very high power consumption conflict with the idea of economy and the often associated desire for more sustainability by conserving resources like energy.
Performance per watt at max FPS
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- 2,560 × 1,440
Performance per watt at max FPS – 3840 × 2160
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- Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 FE100.0%
- AMD Radeon RX 680071.5%
- AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT70.9%
- Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 FE70.0%
- Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 FE64 .7%
- AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT63.8%
- Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Ti FE62.3%
- Asus GeForce RTX 3090 Strix OC61.7%
- AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT61.7%
- Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti FE61.5%
- XFX Radeon RX 6900 XT Black59.4%
- Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 Ti55.7%
Unit: Percent performance per watt at maximum FPS – 2,560 × 1,440
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- Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 FE100.0%
- AMD Radeon RX 680076.1%
- AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT72.8%
- Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 FE71.1 %
- AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT65.3%
- AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT65.1%
- Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 FE61.4%
- XFX Radeon RX 6900 XT Black60.9%
- Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Ti FE58.8%
- Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 Ti FE58.2 %
- Asus GeForce RTX 3090 Strix OC54.6%
- Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 Ti52.3%
Unit: percent
Efficient hardware and systems as well as efficient technology in general can be found in a wide variety of areas.
In which areas are you most interested in efficiency?
Computer systems, notebooks and hardware as well as smart home , wearables and smartphones, there are products trimmed for efficiency everywhere. But in which areas are you most interested in efficiency?
In which areas are you most interested in efficiency or economy?
- Wearables
- Graphics cards
- CPUs
- Hardware in general
- Computer Systems & Servers
- Supercomputers & Science
- Network Engineering & Internet
- Smartphones & Tablets
- Single Board Computers
- Internet of Things
- Smart Home
- Automotive
- Smart TVs
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If areas or sub-areas are missing, you are welcome to mention them in the comments to this article. The editors would be very happy to receive appropriate feedback.
How do you feel about efficiency and sustainability?
Just be honest: How does it operate you your hardware? Do you always try to achieve the best possible efficiency, or do you ultimately focus on frames per second or the best possible graphics?
Do you specifically buy particularly efficient or energy-saving hardware?
- Yes (efficient)
- Yes (power saving)
- No
- Abstention (show result)
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Would you say that you operate your hardware particularly efficiently after purchase, or do you get the most out of the existing components by overclocking and undervolting?
I'm running my hardware…
- …with default settings and within the official specifications.
- …optimized for maximum performance by overclocking and/or undervolting.
- …optimized for efficiency using undervolting and other measures.
- Abstain (show result)
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Do you want more on the topic of power consumption and efficiency?
How do you imagine such reporting ? What editorial topics are you most interested in? Performance or Efficiency? Or maybe both to the same extent?
Should there be more editorial content on the topic?
- Yes, there can be more content on the topic
- No, it should be about performance first
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Participation is expressly desired
The editors would be very happy to receive well-founded and detailed reasons for your decisions in the comments on the current Sunday question. If you have completely different favorites, please write it in the comments.
Readers who have not yet participated in the last Sunday questions are welcome to do so. In particular, there are still exciting discussions going on in the ComputerBase forum about the last polls.
Overview of the last ten Sunday-questions
- Have you reached your gaming PC pain threshold?
- GTA I & II or rather San Andreas, Vice City & GTA V?
- What grades do you currently give AMD's AM5 platform?
- Is the power consumption of new hardware still up to date?
- How does Ada Lovelace calculate for Nvidia?
- How do you rate the separation of the two GPU specialists?
- From vacuum robot to household android?
- What has been your greatest overclocking success so far?< /li>
- Microsoft Xbox Series X or the Sony PlayStation 5?
- Have you tried Linux and how was the experience?
- Which graphics card is the legend among legends ?
- (How) are you trying to reduce your electricity consumption?
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