Ability Consumption & Temperatures

Compared to a standard not-overclocked Radeon HD 6870, the HIS Radeon Hard disk drive 6870 IceQ X Turbo X consumed 8% more power under load. The factory-overclocked HIS Radeon HD 6850 IceQ X Turbo besides used 7% more power than a standard card. The idle results for both graphics cards were like to that of reference cards.

The HIS Radeon Hard disk drive 6870 IceQ 10 Turbo X Crossfire configuration used 9% more power nether load than standard 6870 Crossfire cards. With a load consumption of 465 watts, the HD 6870 IceQ X Turbo Ten Crossfire cards consumed ii% less power than the dual-GPU Radeon Hard disk drive 6990.

Meanwhile, the HIS Radeon HD 6850 IceQ X Turbo Crossfire configuration provided a full system power consumption of 408 watts, which was vii% more than the standard 6850 Crossfire cards under load. Interestingly, a pair of HD 6850 IceQ Ten Turbo Crossfire cards consumed roughly the aforementioned amount of power under load every bit a single GeForce GTX 580.

HIS claims a 13-degree temperature reduction for the HIS Radeon HD 6850 IceQ X Turbo compared to a standard card and we saw a 14% drop in temperature. This is a cracking result particularly considering how serenity the menu operated.

The HIS Radeon HD 6870 IceQ X Turbo X is said to be 15 degrees cooler though we simply saw a thirteen-degree reduction, still a positive result taking into account the overclock.

When placed in Crossfire mode nosotros had two expansion slots separating each graphics card and it appears that this was plenty to avert seeing a temperature increase under load.