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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.
The VTX3D Radeon HD7970 X Edition manages slightly lower power consumption than our reference card, by around 3-5 watts generally.
Wow thats a great product, surprised how well it handles.
What is their warranty support like though? Powercolor had a terrible coverage plan in the UK.
I dont think it looks that bad. anyway who looks at a video card anyway, once its installed, its out of sight, right?
Wow im buying this, ive waited for a while now for a good 7970 with quality cooler. none in stock yet, another week before its available 🙁 damn you kitguru for getting my hopes up.
Well some difference there is… as i checked warranty times from one shop for some 7970 cards. MSI, ASUS, Gigabyte offering 3 years on the ones i checked. XFX 2 years and this one has 1 year. I bought this one anyway.