EVGA GTX 1070 FTW ACX 3.0 - power consumtion?

[dtepus]

Hi all

I am from Croatia so i apologize for any possibles mistakes written. I want to buy this EVGA graphics card: https://www.evga.com/products/product.aspx?pn=08G-P4-6276-KR

I am just interested in does it use all the time at full load all of the 215w?

I found here on the EVGA forum that the FTW 1070 has two 8 pin connectors and i will qoute the post for better understanding.

"An is a 215 watt card (~ 17.9 Amps @ +12V)..Of which it can get 75 watts (~ 6.25 Amps @ +12V) from the PCIe slot itself, leaving the remainder of 140 watts (~ 11.6 Amps @ +12V) to be supplied by the Supplemental Power Connectors (6+2-pin or 8-pin).
An 8-pin (or 6+2-pin) connector is for 150 watts (~ 12.5 Amps @ +12V) and is programmed into the card's VBIOS not to exceed that current draw as specified by the industry standard PCI-SIG specifications.
EVGA and other vendors can and often do exceed the minimum power requirements of their cards by adding extra 6-pin/8-pin connectors to promote overclocking/stability, for example a 225W card (75W from the PCIe slot and 150W from one 8-pin connector) might come with two 8-pin connectors (75W from the PCIe slot and 300W from two 8-pin connectors, or a combination of 6-pin/8-pin Supplemental Power Connectors, aka PEG Connectors) to feed the card extra wattage/amperage."

From that qoute, does it means that the card doesn use all of the possible 215w? It uses standard 150-180 wattage and the rest is "reserved" if the card would be overclocked?

I hope you understand my question

P.S. Is the EVGA superclocked 2 with icx cooling a better buy? It costs just 20$ more.

Thank you

 

[kenchu]

The superclocked version is the same card but with a bot of clocks boosts, it delivers a tiny bit more perfomance out of the box, but you can always but the acx model at the same frequencies and you're done. Icx as far as I know is a technology used to registwr better the temperatures and control fans better in some way.

You should have a power supply with enough or a bit more wattage than expected, so yeah you should always think that the card will use those 215w.

You can use a system wattage calculator if your problem is choosing a psu wattage.

https://outervision.com/power-supply-calculator

 

[dtepus]

Thank you. I plan mining with the card so it would be really great if it not uses all of the 215w at full load, just for overclocking. The other gtx 1070 use 150-180w and it would be great if the ftw would be in that window. Thats why i copied the qoute from another forum.

By the time i write this, i got an answer on the EVGA forum that the card has two bios's and one version works only on 185w, other on 225w. Thank you
You say the FTW or the SC2 is better?

 

[kenchu]

Onestly I can't tell you wich is better. I would go for the newer one. But as I said before, the superclocked version should come with a boost clock out of the box and outperform thw other (unless you overclock it, a tiny bit). Check the memory clock and frequency of both models, but I would go for icx version because it's newer and should have improved reliabilty at some extent.