Sapphire Radeon HD 6850 Vapor-X OC 1GB Graphics Card Review

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.

At idle, the 6850 OC used just over 100 Watts and when ran through our extreme tests, we saw a relatively low 211.6 Watts being used over the complete system.