Sapphire Radeon HD 6970 FleX Battlefield 3 Edition 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.

The 6970 only used a very low 109.5 Watts on idle which is really low for a card of this calibre. At load, the overall system still only used 239.7 Watts which for a flagship AMD single core card is still remarkably low.