TEMPERATURE & POWER CONSUMPTION
To measure both power consumption and heat, we stress the video card and record the peak values for heat and wattage. We use default values on the cards and stress test them using a mix of Kombustor Dx11 Burn-In Test with Post-FX.
[singlepic id=15046 w=550 h=600 float=center] [singlepic id=15047 w=550 h=600 float=center]Not surprisingly, the new cooler performs just as good as the original HD7970 DCU2 from ASUS and manages to provide the same temps as the previous model. Power consumption is also within the same level as the earlier HD7970, which we’d had hoped could’ve been lower.
