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HIS HD5550 Silence 1GB DDR3 Review

Allan 'Zardon' Campbell June 18, 2010 Featured Announcement, Graphics

Today we are using a Keithley Integra Model 2700/E and we are measuring power consumption at VGA card inputs, not full system drain. To test load we first fire up Resident Evil at high image quality settings then we follow up with the synthetic Furmark which loads the GPU beyond game engine levels … Furmark is not a particularly realistic reading, but its interesting to document.

This result is particularly interesting – the HIS HD5550 is an extremely efficient card and has outperformed the Sapphire Ultimate model when under load in both real world and synthetic situations, even if only by a few watts. ATI claim 10watts at idle but our device measured 12 watts, same as the Asus card.

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9 comments

  1. eric k
    June 18, 2010 at 4:05 pm

    thats actually very nice, I like the DDR3 option, i was amazed sapphire were still selling cards with DDR2, even if its lower end. id go for this rather than sapphire tbh.

  2. ray
    June 18, 2010 at 4:05 pm

    another good review Zardon, take a break for god sake ! we will be carrying you out in a body bag !

  3. tim
    June 18, 2010 at 4:06 pm

    Site seems to be going down, some pages arent loading for me.

    Thanks for the review, nice read.

  4. stefan
    June 18, 2010 at 4:06 pm

    Excellent little board, and DDR3 which is rare on these lower end cards. like it.

  5. harry
    June 18, 2010 at 4:07 pm

    very good review chaps. liked the power consumption, I must get one of these for my bedroom for media. IQ looks stellar

  6. Tech Head
    June 18, 2010 at 4:08 pm

    12w idle and under 30w gaming. lol that is fucking legendary.

  7. Francois Lebon
    June 18, 2010 at 4:10 pm

    Bollocks to this, review pissed me off 🙁 I bought the DDR2 model last week 🙁

  8. Zardon's Bane
    June 18, 2010 at 4:33 pm

    Honestly man, can you please let me know now if you have a GDDR5 version being reviewed next week? I don’t want to make the same mistake as poor Francois 🙁

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