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Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 3GB Vapor-X Video Card Review

Manufacturer: Sapphire
Product: 11196-09-40G
Date: Fri, Oct 05, 2012 - 12:00 AM
Written By: Nathan Kirsch -
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Power Consumption

Sapphire HD7950 Vapor-X Video Card

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 1.10.1 at 1024x768 resolution. We also ran four game titles at 1920x1080 and averaged the peak results recorded the highest Wattage seen on the meter for the gaming results.

Total System Power Consumption Results

Power Consumption Results: The Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 Vapor-X is a high-end gaming graphics card, so we expected to see fairly high power numbers. The results put the Sapphire Radeon HD 7950 Vapor-X at the top of the charts, but the power usage wasn't that bad. At idle the entire system consumed 108 Watts of power and at full load we averaged 320 Watts in game titles. The power consumption is more than some of the other cards that we have recently tested, but not by much.

Next Page - Temperature & Noise Testing


Review Index
Page 1 - The Sapphire Vapor-X HD7950
Page 2 - Retail Box & Bundle
Page 3 - Test System
Page 4 - Batman: Arkham City
Page 5 - Battlefield 3
Page 6 - Borderlands 2
Page 7 - Dirt: Showdown
Page 8 - Metro 2033
Page 9 - Sleeping Dogs
Page 10 - 3DMark 11
Page 11 - Power Consumption
Page 12 - Temperature & Noise Testing
Page 13 - Sapphire 7950 Vapor-X Overclocking
Page 14 - Final Thoughts and Conclusions