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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 Sapphire card has been tweaked a little, taking a few watts less when under load compared to our early reference card.
wicked card – battlefield 3 in three screens must be incredible.
been waiting on this for a while now. 7950 is just too much for my system. excellent review, thanks.
whats happened to XFX lately? they went so quiet. Sapphire are running amok.
Oh yeah, nice review man, got a lot of info from this. might go for their 7950 it looks sweet.
Awesome.
I might go for this next month as I just bought two extra cheap dell screens on sale.