HIS Radeon HD 7870 IceQ 2GB Graphics Card Review
Andy Ruffell / 12 years ago
To 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.
Another key area is the power consumption which is extremely low at both idle and load. For a card with such a beefy cooler, we were quite surprised as to how low these results were for our whole system draw.
