Sapphire Radeon R7 260X 2GB OC 2x DVI Video Card Review
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Temperature and Power Consumption
All temperature testing is done in a room with an ambient temperature of 17C (63F).
When sitting idle at the desktop, the Sapphire R7 260X ran 38C, with the fan running at 20%, which is close to 1000RPM.
Temperature Results: Under a load the temperature increased to 67C, while the fan speed went to 36%, or 1444RPM. This isn’t a huge increase in fan speed. The temperature increased 29C from idle to load this is a fairly high increase in temperature, however for a non-enthusiast video card it isn’t a problem as it does not overheat.
Power Consumption
For testing power consumption, a P3 Kill-A-Watt power meter was used. To achieve idle conditions, the system sat at the desktop for 30 minutes, and the reading was taken. For the load condition, GPU-Z was used to ensure the GPU reached 100% utilization and Heaven was run four time while monitoring the power consumption.
Power Consumption Results: At idle the test system uses 82W of power with the Sapphire R7 260X, this is one of the lower power usage cards I have tested. Under the load conditions, that increases by 85W for a total system consumption of 167W.