XFX HD 7790 Black Edition OC Review
Chris Hadley / 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.
Given the hand selected components and higher over clock, XFX’s card doesn’t draw any more power to what we have seen out of any other 7790 at load, although like MSI’s offering it does consume a little more at idle.
