AMD Radeon Pro W6800 Professional Graphics Card Review

1. Introduction2. AMD Radeon Pro W6800 Specifications3. Testing Methodology4. SPECviewperf 20205. SPECviewperf 2020 and Blender Render6. OpenCL7. Power and Temperature8. Closing Thoughts9. View All Pages

Power Consumption

One area where the W6800 has a strong proposition, however, is power consumption. For this test, we fired up the VRMark Cyan Room benchmark in a loop, and compared the eventual peak power draw with when the card was idle and doing nothing.

Although the W6800 is rated at 250W peak, the GPU was only consuming 100W, which is rather frugal.

Temperature

We also checked the temperature of each card before we began the VRMark loops, and then once it had settled to a constant value. Here we were able to compare to previous AMD cards, although these were on a different machine at a different time and with different room temperature.

The idle GPU temperature of 36C looks high, but this was a very hot UK summer day (during the recent heat wave), so the delta with the temperature under full load is the most important to consider. Under load, the W6800's temperature has risen by 42C, whereas the W5500 rose by 52C and the W5700 by 46C. So the W6800 clearly runs cool.

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