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AMD Radeon HD 6790 1GB Video Card Review

Manufacturer: AMD
Product: Radeon HD 6790 1GB
Date: Mon, Apr 04, 2011 - 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 6790 did so-so in the power consumption test as it drew 109W at idle and 249W at load. We call this so-so as it used more power than the AMD Radeon HD 6850 reference design and was slower than this card in all the benchmarks.  We don't like the fact that this card is slower than the AMD Radeon HD 6850, but still manages to use more power.

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Review Index
Page 1 - The AMD Radeon HD 6790 Graphics Card
Page 2 - The Radeon HD 6790 Up Close
Page 3 - The Test System
Page 4 - Aliens vs. Predator
Page 5 - Just Cause 2
Page 6 - Metro 2033
Page 7 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
Page 8 - H.A.W.X. 2 Benchmark
Page 9 - 3DMark Vantage
Page 10 - 3DMark 11
Page 11 - Unigine 'Heaven' DX11
Page 12 - FurMark 1.8.2
Page 13 - Temperature Testing
Page 14 - Power Consumption
Page 15 - AMD Radeon HD 6790 1GB Overclocking
Page 16 - Final Thoughts & Conclusions