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Sapphire Radeon HD 5670 512MB / 1GB Video Card Review

Manufacturer: Sapphire
Product: Sapphire Radeon HD 5670 1GB
Date: Thu, Jan 14, 2010 - 12:00 AM
Written By: Nathan Kirsch -
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Power Consumption

For testing power consumption, we took our test system and plugged it into a Seasonic Power Angel. For idle numbers, we allowed the system to idle on the desktop for 15 minutes and took the reading. For load numbers we measured the peak wattage used by the system while running the OpenGL benchmark FurMark 1.7.0 at 1920x1200 resolution.

Total System Power Consumption Results

Power Consumption Results: The ATI Radeon HD 5670 512MB and the Sapphire Radeon HD 5670 1GB had exactly the same power draw out of the wall in this test scenario. The idle power scores put the cards at the bottom of the chart for both idle and load power consumption and they only get beat by the NVIDIA GeForce GT 220 and GT 240 graphics cards. The Radeon HD 5670 series is faster than these two cards, so for that extra graphical horse power in the games you will be forced to consume a little extra power. At idle the difference is just a few Watts and that difference is not significant.

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Review Index
Page 1 - Radeon HD 5670 Testing and Benchmarking!
Page 2 - ATI Radeon HD 5670 512MB
Page 3 - Sapphire Radeon HD 5670 1GB
Page 4 - Retail Box and Bundle
Page 5 - The Test System
Page 6 - Batman: Arkham Asylum
Page 7 - Resident Evil 5
Page 8 - Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X.
Page 9 - FurMark 1.7.0
Page 10 - 3DMark Vantage
Page 11 - Unigine 'Heaven' DX11
Page 12 - Temperature Testing
Page 13 - Power Consumption
Page 14 - Radeon HD 5670 Overclocking
Page 15 - Final Thoughts and Conclusions