AMD Radeon 6570 512MB Graphics Card Review
Andy Ruffell / 13 years ago
Power ConsumptionTo test power consumption, we monitor the overall power of the system through a plug-in electricity usage monitor at an idle and load state. This allows us to show the fluctuation between how much power draw the graphics card takes at idle and at load. By monitoring the overall usage of the whole system, it gives an easy comparison if you wish to do the same yourself as opposed to buying very expensive individual testing equipment.
The 6570 uses relatively low amounts of power at 103.7 watts on idle, yet at load it did surpass the 6450 by quite a lot, considering the performance doesn’t show these kind of increases in some of the tests.
