Sapphire Radeon HD 7850 OC 2GB 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.

Moving over to how power hungry this card is, and we find some impressive results at idle at 101.2 Watts and an equally low 194.7 Watts at load.