That means that they achieve an efficiency of up 90% to 94%

Jun 5, 2014 09:16 GMT  ·  By

Computex is always an arena where the world's best-known IT companies, and a fair few that aren't so well known, set their products against each other, in a manner of speaking. There, EVGA has made its move on the PSU market.

Power supplies aren't the company's main cash cow, but they are still one of the business arms that EVGA is particularly fond of.

Nothing else can be true when the outfit went through all the trouble associated with the best quality that PSUs can possibly achieve.

And we're not just talking about output power, but about efficiency. While there used to be a time when wattage was all that mattered, that was decades ago.

Today, a high-end, high-output power supply has absolutely no chance of selling to anyone if it doesn't at least have 80 Plus Gold rating.

Which is to say, an efficiency of 87% at 20% load, 90% at 50% load, and 87% at 100% load.

Standards only go higher with every step of the 80 Plus rating system. Once, 80 Plus Gold was the highest, but Platinum and Titanium have since been achieved.

EVGA's new Supernova series, on display at Computex 2014, cover all these three, high-end standard efficiency levels.

In fact, that's the only thing that sets them apart, and what warrants different names for the trio. Yes, there are three of them.

The Supernova 1600 G2 is the 80 Plus Gold model, Supernova 1600 P2 is the 80 Plus Platinum PSU, and Supernova T2 is the one with Titanium.

80 Plus Platinum rating means that the power supply has an output of 90%, 92% and 89%, while Titanium demands 92%, 94% and 90%.

In layman terms, that means that the power wasted by the PSUs in the EVGA Supernova collection is of less than 10% for the T2 and P2, and (occasionally) 12% for the G2.

Compared to normal, non-80 Plus models that can lose up to 30% or more of the energy flowing through them, that's a huge advantage. It will cut down on your power bill significantly, eventually offsetting the kind of cash you need to pay for the high-quality stuff.

Unfortunately, we don't know just what prices EVGA has slapped on the things. Not that it will matter much, since none but the richest, most hardcore buyers or workstation owners will even consider them.

On that note, it should be easy enough for any of the Supernova PSUs to fuel quad-SLI/CrossFire multi-graphics systems, and maybe two extreme-performance Intel Core i7 Haswell-E CPUs too.