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XFX HD7870 Black Edition Overclocked Graphics Card Review

Allan 'Zardon' Campbell March 20, 2012 Featured Announcement, Graphics

To test power consumption today we are using a Keithley Integra unit and we measure power consumption from the VGA card inputs, not the system wide drain. We measure results while gaming in Crysis Warhead and record the results.

In such an energy aware climate, AMD are making a big deal out of their new ‘ZeroCore Power’ technology. Many solutions today use power gating, clock gating and memory compression to reduce idle power requirements, but ZeroCore power technology can completely power down the core GPU while the rest of the system remains active.

Power consumption falls in line with the reference sample we reviewed a short while ago.

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6 comments

  1. Bill
    March 20, 2012 at 4:52 pm

    those cards are pure sex. Id probably want the 7950 though if I was getting an XFX DD card. seems to make more sense, especially when overclocked to the limit.

  2. Joe Soap
    March 20, 2012 at 8:38 pm

    Good cards, but far too many to choose from in the last 2 weeks. hard to know what to buy (if I was in the market).

  3. Raymond D
    March 20, 2012 at 8:38 pm

    HD6850 is the better value card IMO, its under £200 now in the UK, 6870 is too closely priced to 6950 IMO

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