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ASUS Radeon HD 6870 Video Card Review
| Manufacturer: | ASUS |
| Product: | ASUS Radeon HD 6870 Video Card |
| Date: | Thu, May 19, 2011 - 05:00 AM |
| Written By: | Brian Giacoletti - |
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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 Aliens vs. Predator full video game at 1920x1080 resolution.
Power Consumption Results:
As you can see, running at idle the test system draws 130 watts of power, but once we get the ASUS Radeon HD 6870 to a full 100% load it spikes up to 272 watts, a full 142 watt jump. Not too shabby if you think about it. Even if you had two of these cards in a Crossfire configuration with a 750 watt PSU like our test system, you still have almost 500 watts of headroom.
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Page 2 - ASUS Radeon HD 6870 Video Card Packaging Page 3 - A Closer Look At The ASUS Radeon HD 6870 Video Card Page 4 - The Test System Page 5 - Batman: Arkham Asylum GOTY Edition Page 6 - Metro 2033 Page 7 - Aliens vs Predator Page 8 - Left 4 Dead 2 Page 9 - S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripyat Page 10 - Battlefield Bad Company 2 Page 11 - 3DMark 11 Page 12 - Furmark 1.8.2 Page 13 - Unigine Heaven 2.5 Page 14 - Temperature Testing Page 15 - Power Consumption Page 16 - ASUS Radeon HD 6870 Video Card Overclocking Page 17 - ASUS Radeon HD 6870 Video Card Final Thoughts |
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