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Diamond, Sapphire & XFX AMD Radeon HD 6870 Video Card Roundup

Manufacturer: XFX
Product: Radeon HD 6870 (Barts XT)
Date: Mon, Nov 01, 2010 - 12:00 AM
Written By: Nathan Kirsch -
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Temperature Testing

We fired up FurMark and ran the stability at 640x480, which was enough to put the GPU core at 100% load in order to get the highest load temperature possible. This application also charts the temperature results so you can see how the temperature rises and levels off, which is very nice. The fans on the video cards were left on auto during temperature testing. When we hit the space bar to stop the rendering the temperature dropped.

Diamond Radeon HD 6870 XOC Video Card Load Temperature:

AMD Radeon HD 6850 Video Card Load Temp

Sapphire Radeon HD 6870 Video Card Load Temperature:

AMD Radeon HD 6850 Video Card Load Temp

XFX Radeon HD 6870 Video Card Load Temperature:

AMD Radeon HD 6870 Video Card Load Temp

The XFX and Sapphire Radeon HD 6870 peaked at 77-78C and the Diamond Multimedia Radeon HD 6870 XOC peaked at 82C. It looks like the mild overclock on the Diamond card caused it to be 4-5C hotter at full load. All of the cards had idle temperatures around 42C.

Next Page - Power Consumption


Review Index
Page 1 - Retail Radeon HD 6870 Video Cards Arrive!
Page 2 - Diamond Radeon HD 6870 XOC
Page 3 - Sapphire Radeon HD 6870
Page 4 - XFX Radeon HD 6870
Page 5 - The Test System
Page 6 - Aliens vs. Predator
Page 7 - Metro 2033
Page 8 - H.A.W.X. 2 Benchmark
Page 9 - 3DMark Vantage
Page 10 - Temperature Testing
Page 11 - Power Consumption
Page 12 - Radeon HD 6870 Overclocking With TRiXX
Page 13 - Final Thoughts and Conclusions