XFX Radeon RX 470 4GB Black Edition Video Card Review

By Nathan Kirsch

Power Consumption

XFX Radeon RX 470 4GB Black Edition Graphics 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 ran Battlefield 4 at 3840×2160 and recorded the average idle reading and the peak gaming reading on the power meter.

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Power Consumption Results: With the XFX Radeon RX 470 4GB Black Edition video card installed in the system we topped out at 305 Watts when running BF4 at 4K resolutions and used 105 W at idle. Not bad performance numbers for AMD.