X-bitlabs have thrown up their latest article which looks at the power consumption of contemporary graphics cards! Part 1 covers ATI video cards.
Well, ATI?s claims that the RADEON X800 XT Platinum Edition consumes no more than 70W are fully confirmed. Curiously enough, the biggest portion of the consumption falls on the additional power connector, while the AGP slot only supplies about 10W in the Burn mode. When overclocking, I increased the GPU frequency by 4.7%, and the memory frequency by 8.7%. The power consumption grew up slightly: by 4.6% in the Idle mode and by 4.2% in the Burn mode. Even overclocked, the card never reached a power consumption of 70W
Well, ATI?s claims that the RADEON X800 XT Platinum Edition consumes no more than 70W are fully confirmed. Curiously enough, the biggest portion of the consumption falls on the additional power connector, while the AGP slot only supplies about 10W in the Burn mode. When overclocking, I increased the GPU frequency by 4.7%, and the memory frequency by 8.7%. The power consumption grew up slightly: by 4.6% in the Idle mode and by 4.2% in the Burn mode. Even overclocked, the card never reached a power consumption of 70W
