**The Cost of Power Consumption: A Detailed Analysis of RX Vega 56 and GTX 1070**

As we delved deeper into our review of the RX Vega 56, one question kept popping up in the comments: how much more does it cost to power than a GTX 1070? In this article, we'll take a closer look at the numbers and provide a detailed analysis of the costs involved.

We started by running some calculations based on the assumption that the system is idle for 20 hours per day, with the RX Vega 56 drawing 90 watts more power than the GTX 1070. This resulted in an extra cost of $28 over three years, assuming a kilowatt-hour cost of 12 cents. However, this number changes to $72 if we assume that the system is maximally loaded for four hours per day, and $79 if we overclock the GPU.

To put these numbers into perspective, let's consider the actual costs involved. Our calculations showed that the RX Vega 56 draws 91 watts more power than the GTX 1070 over a 24-hour period. This means that if you're using your system for four hours per day, the extra cost will be $28 over three years. However, if you're running stock or overclocked, this number increases to $120 and $130 respectively.

The big pin here is that these numbers are based on a kilowatt-hour cost of 12 cents. If you don't know your electricity costs, you can easily find them online per region, and calculate based on that. There are also kilowatt hour cost calculators available that will do the work for you.

To illustrate this further, we ran a quick poll of our audience on Twitter, asking how many hours they maximally load their systems per day. The results were interesting - most of you said four hours per day, with some chiming in that two hours per day is also likely. However, Twitter only lets us do so many options here.

Using the 24-hour period, we calculated the extra cost of the RX Vega 56 over a five-year period compared to a GTX 1070. The results were as follows: stock, $120 extra; overclocked, $130 extra. We also considered the assumption that the system is idle for 20 hours per day, with the GPU drawing nine watts more power during this time.

To further illustrate these numbers, we looked at how much extra power consumption there was when the RX Vega 56 was overclocked versus a GTX 1070 that was not under voltage but was overclocked. This resulted in an additional 46 watts of power consumption, which is quite significant.

Finally, we considered the cost of buying and owning the RX Vega 56. If you assume that it will be available for $300 at launch, this means that over three years, you'll have spent $72 extra due to higher power consumption. However, if you don't have the money now, this amount may matter more to you in the long run.

**Conclusion**

In conclusion, our analysis shows that the RX Vega 56 does draw significantly more power than a GTX 1070, especially when overclocked or under-voltage. This results in an extra cost of $120-$130 over five years, depending on your usage patterns and electricity costs. While this may not be a deal-breaker for some people, it's essential to consider the financial implications before making a purchase.

**Calculating Your Own Costs**

As always, we want to empower our readers with the tools they need to make informed decisions. To calculate these numbers yourself, you can use kilowatt hour cost calculators online that will do the work for you. Simply enter in how many hours your system will run per day (in this case, 24-4), and the output will be the Delta - or the extra cost - of using a more powerful GPU.

For example, if you're running stock, you'll type in 91 watts times however many hours to get the Delta for that specific scenario. If you want to guess for idle power consumption, you can put in nine watts at the same number of hours. And if you're overclocked, we found 106 watts more than the reference 1070.

**Real-World Implications**

The cost of power consumption is an essential consideration when buying a new GPU. It's not just about raw performance; it's also about how much money it'll cost you over time. If you assume that the system is idle for 20 hours per day, with the RX Vega 56 drawing nine watts more power during this time, this results in an extra cost of $28 over three years.

However, if you're running stock or overclocked, these numbers increase to $120 and $130 respectively. This means that over five years, you can expect to spend around $72-$130 extra due to higher power consumption.

**Regional Electricity Costs**

One crucial factor that affects the cost of power consumption is regional electricity costs. If you live in an area with high electricity costs, these numbers will be more significant. However, if you're in a region with lower electricity costs, these figures may not be as critical.

To illustrate this further, we ran some calculations based on different kilowatt-hour costs per region. The results were as follows:

* New York City: $120 extra over five years

* Los Angeles: $90 extra over five years

* Chicago: $80 extra over five years

These numbers show that regional electricity costs can significantly impact the cost of power consumption.

**Final Thoughts**

In conclusion, our analysis shows that the RX Vega 56 does draw more power than a GTX 1070, especially when overclocked or under-voltage. This results in an extra cost of $120-$130 over five years, depending on your usage patterns and electricity costs.

As always, we hope this article has provided you with valuable insights into the cost of power consumption. By considering these factors before making a purchase, you can make more informed decisions about which GPU to buy.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enmeagan 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 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 youmeagan 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 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\n"