Sapphire HD6870 Toxic Edition Review – the fastest HD6870 available?

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. The best way to get maximum load results is by using Furmark, and even though it is not indicative of a real world situation it shows the limits the card can theoretically demand. The ‘gaming’ results are measured when playing Crysis Warhead and is a more valuable result to take from this.

Clearly Sapphire have tweaked the PCB design as this card consumes less power than other overclocked boards, such as the HIS HD6870 Turbo Edition that we reviewed last year.

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