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We recorded temperatures at idle after resting in Windows for 30 minutes, and then we tested load by using the synthetic test Furmark. The card was inside a Silverstone Raven 02 for the testing. Room ambient was kept at 25c throughout.
Furmark is a synthetic test and as such pushes video cards harder than any games on the market. As such this is strictly a ‘worst case scenario' which we always like to present in our reviews. While gaming, the card never exceeded 50c under load, 9 degrees lower than we recorded with Furmark stress testing. This is a seriously impressive cooler.
It is not likely people will be using a Raven 02 with a card like this so we also tested inside a Shuttle HTPC chassis.
Ambient temperatures inside the Shuttle rose by roughly 2-3 degrees C and the Sapphire card held results in accordance with this thermal increase. Under load we were impressed to see just over 60c recorded and again when gaming you can comfortably reduce our load results by 8-9c.
This just shows how far ahead ATI are right now in all ranges. nvidia need to step up. that 220 was never a good card.
That is a great card, very impressed for the money
Where’s the CrossFire numbers? Come on Zardon: No Slacking!
Its unfortunately not a self replicating card, but when I have two ill make sure and post the results 🙂
thats a really wicked little card for the price. surprisingly good
Yeah the temps are good for the passive cooler. seems a good solution for media
My buddy has one of these, he plays WOW on it, and Source games. handles 1920 resolution !
Sapphire are great, one of my fav companies
Great review thank you.
I had seen this card reviewed a while ago elsewhere and went to buy it, then forgot about it and realised I couldnt remember who made it, or the model.Just ordered one from OCUK
DX11, cool, decent game performance without AA, hardly any power draw and no noise.
Seems to be a winner 🙂
AMD really do rock. Awesome little board. Any bad cards in the 5 series? nope.
Very nice solution for the money, was impressed with temps
Very nice indeed. like the design too. quite attractive