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meagan 56 as power consumption has been a major item of notes or in reviews but we wanted to turn the watts into a more relatable metric dollars we did some simple calculations on power consumption versus the electricity cost of the average American household which is apparently twelve cents per kilowatt hour and put together a cost offset versus the gtx 1070 some folks will pay a whole lot more than that based on regions so factor in your own costs as necessary here we're using the gtx 1070 reference as a baseline because we know it consumes less power than the RX vega 56 we're able to then offset at a relative power consumption increase on the 56 so if you switched to the 56 from the 1070 we're looking at how much more you pay per year not how much total you pay per year before that this coverage is brought to you by cable mod already well-known for their work in custom sleeved power supply cables cable mod is now venturing into liquid cooler tubes leaving with their new AIO sleeping kits compatible with corsair and NZ acti as of now check the link in the description below for more information this is all done pretty easily in terms of video output this is one of our simplest ones to make but it gives some interesting data that is more relatable on a day to day basis so the main thing here we're looking at delta power consumption total for the system we did do power testing at the PCIe cables but not at the PCIe slot yet and in tests and we found that the gtx 1070 currently draws more power to the PCIe slot then the RX vega card does and so that means it's kind of skewed it ends up looking like Vega draws two times more power than the 1070 rather than a more realistic twenty to thirty percent depending on workload so we're looking at delta power through the wall and our accuracy therefore decreases as we approach idle but it's pretty accurate as we go up into heavier workloads particularly using 3dmark fire strike with a frozen screen where you basically get a fixed constant output both at the rails and at the wall so easy enough to use that as our load benchmark baseline which you can kind of use to assume render performance or gain performance and we're measuring that Vega 56 at 91 watts more power than the gtx 1070 both our stock through this fire strike benchmark it's about nine watts more idle than the 1070 in our testing and then it draws fifty six drives about one hundred and six watts more power when overclocked which is the ten seventy overclock these are all numbers from our review so nothing new there what is new is what we get into when we start calculating the different types of loads and the cost so we're looking at idle 24/7 which is obviously unlikely but it helps us provide a baseline to extrapolate other numbers load 24/7 also unlikely for probably most of you but very realistic for folks who do rendering or maybe our miners but in that case you're doing a whole lot of tuning anyway so you probably disregarded numbers we're also looking at load for 12 hours a day load for eight hours a day and load for four hours a day that would be gaming for four hours a day on average for example you want numbers in between there we've given you idle at 24/7 so that you can kind of guess where it would fall pretty accurately and these are all calculated using the rest of the time as idle so basically we're doing a big assumption here that if you buy these cards you build a system you're at you're playing games four hours a day so you're leaving at idle 20 hours a day now realistically what you might actually be doing is either doing web browsing which is pretty light GPU load anyway so the idle number works or turning it off in which case your numbers will be a bit closer together than what we're showing here so realistically how did all that much because idle is just so interesting it doesn't matter talking nine Watts extra here so it's kind of irrelevant but keep it in mind so anyway remember higher is worse in these charts let's get through them let's start with a yearly cost and at twenty four seven loads which again uncommon for most of you if this will be a worst case results for Vega improving as we go along relative to the gtx 1070 reference the RX vega 56 stock card would cost you an extra ninety six dollars per year assuming twelve cents per kilowatt-hour than the gtx 1070 which is illustrated at zero here because again it's a baseline we're looking at deltas over talking both increases the cost of ownership to 111 dollars per year on the 56 over the 10 70s over clause cost but that's 24/7 of time assuming next that you play games or do work under load for 12 hours a day seven days a week cost of ownership versus the 1070 is now 53 dollars per your stock where's the stock or $60.00 per year OC versus OC at eight hours per day of time again that would be something like gaming for some of them and maybe rendering or animation for some of them with the other 16 hours spent idle we see a cost increase of $38 more per year spent on the Vega 56 card than the 1070 or $43 on both our overclocked so I've bent down to four hours per day load that cost is now 24 dollars more per year stock or 26 more when overclocked if you turn off the PC and idle times that number would decrease by 8 dollars per year 24/7 idle puts us at around 10 dollars more than the GTX 970 per year for what it's worth but if you're running a two hour workload per day that landed between the final two data points which is probably realistic for a lot of gamers and here's the cost of ownership over a period of three years which we're assuming is the average upgrade cycle for most people and assuming again 12 cents per kilowatt-hour under 24/7 load and with stock settings the Vega 56 card would cost an extra two hundred eighty-seven dollars over three years for an extra 334 when overclocked for more realistic workload we can reveal the twelve into eight hour metrics where eight hours per day load and sixteen hours per day idle puts us at 115 dollars over the GTX 970 over a three-year period or $130 on both our overclocked going down to four hours per day changes those numbers to 72 and seventy nine dollars stock and overclock respectively 24/7 idle lands us at 28 dollars extra over three years you can sort of extrapolate the rest from here finally we ran a quick poll of our audience on Twitter finding that most of you maximally load your systems for four hours per day with many chiming in that a two-hour load is also likely though Twitter only lets us do so many options here's a look at how much extra the v56 costs per year over five years versus a gtx 1070 using that four hour per day stats for the calculation and assuming that's idle the rest of the time or doing things like web browsing it max out at $120 extra over a five-year period if running stock or 130 overclocked again the biggest assumption here is that we're at 12 cents per kilowatt-hour cost and assuming that the system is idle under the other 20 hours per day so at this point what you want to do is take your own cost for electricity if you don't know it you can find them online per region pretty easily and calculate based on that so the big pin is we've given you the numbers you can use if you wanted to calculate this yourself there are kilowatt hour cost calculators out there that will do the work for you you type in how many hours it will run in our case that was 24 down to 4 and then you type in these numbers so first stock the RX Vega 56 and 3 mark firestrike was drawing 90 watts more power than the 1070 so you would type in 91 times however many hours and the output is the Delta that means how much more it costs Bennett M 70 not how much it costs total you'll pay a lot more total because you've got the whole rest of the computer to pay for but we're looking at more than a 1070 here as in video card the video card comparison that's the first one if you want to guess for idle or calculate it you put in nine watts at the same however many hours it would be idle and that's the extra power consumption there if you're overclocked we found 106 watts more than the overclocked n270 reference that'll change if you do aftermarket perhaps you're adding board cards I'm adding board partners and then finally the other difference was 46 Watts more Vega 56 when it was overpowered 50% and under-voltage versus a 1070 which was not under voltage but was overclocked so not the most linear comparison but if you're planning to do under Bolton you can calculate it that way so that will give you the tool to do this yourself for your own cost I know some people for example in Australia have an insane electricity cost compared to here where we're at about 10 cents per kilowatt hour but how much this matters really depends on the region I'm not going to tell you if it's a lot or a little because I'm not going to sit here and calculate it for every single region and also frankly the amount that it matters really depends on your situation a lot because let's say we're looking at a high number two or three hundred dollars over three years cost of ownership extra to buy Vega well that may really matter to some people maybe $300 more means they buy 10 somebody instead alternatively if you don't have the money now then it might matter more to you now to buy the tard that whichever comes out to be cheaper we don't know if it'll be 56 yet depends on what happens with pricing at launch but just assume something's here if you're assuming that you save money with one card but you spend more overtime how much that matters again depends on how much money you have now and if it makes more financial sense for you to spend it today or for you to spend it later over a period of X years so that's up to you but we've given you some info I just thought it was kind of interesting to point it out because everyone's talking about power consumption but that it kind of gets out of hand what that means without relating it back to money which is ultimately a large part of what matters outside of arguments that we're not going to get into like energy efficiency overall or carbon footprint or things like that we're staying away from those but you have the rest of the numbers so as always thank you for watching patreon.com slash scammers next to the sells out directly you'll find the full review for Vega on the channel we also did a live under under bolting and overclocking demo archived on the channel now and a teardown so check all those out gamers access Squarespace calm difficult shirt like this one this is the anniversary edition thank you all for watching subscribe for more I'll see you all next time you