Legit Video Card Reviews

AMD Radeon HD 6950 & 6970 CrossFire Video Card Reviews

Manufacturer: AMD
Product: Legit Reviews 2010 Stocking Stuffer Guide
Date: Tue, Dec 14, 2010 - 11:00 PM
Written By: Nathan Kirsch -
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Power Consumption

For testing power consumption, we took our test system and plugged it into a Kill-A-Watt power meter. 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 1.8.2 at 1280x1024 resolution.

Total System Power Consumption Results

Power Consumption Results: The AMD Radeon HD 6950 and 6970 do very well with their idle power consumption as both cards are between 110-111W at idle. At full load the cards consume quite a bit more power but, as you can see, far less than their direct competitors from NVIDIA. We aren't sure why our 6950 CrossFire setup used more power than a 6970 CrossFire setup at idle, but we'll chalk that up to a driver issue or our secondary card had a ton of leakage! 

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Review Index
Page 1 - AMD Radeon HD 6970 & 6950 - 40nm Cayman
Page 2 - The Cayman GPU Architecture
Page 3 - A Closer Look At The Radeon HD 6970 & 6950
Page 4 - AMD PowerTune Technology
Page 5 - Test Setup
Page 6 - Aliens vs. Predator
Page 7 - Batman: Arkham Asylum GOTY
Page 8 - Just Cause 2
Page 9 - Metro 2033
Page 10 - StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty
Page 11 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
Page 12 - H.A.W.X. 2 Benchmark
Page 13 - 3DMark Vantage
Page 14 - 3DMark 11
Page 15 - Unigine 'Heaven' DX11
Page 16 - FurMark 1.8.2
Page 17 - Temperature & Noise Testing
Page 18 - Power Consumption
Page 19 - Radeon 6970 & 6950 GPU Overclocking
Page 20 - Final Thoughts and Conclusions