sapphire dual-x radeon r9 280 power consumption question

woot

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I was doing some heavy gaming and i was monitoring my card using the TechPowerUp GPU-Z program, im having trouble understanding the power consumption readings, they are as follows.

at peak load after 30 minutes of heavy gaming.

max VDDC 1.206V
max VDDC current 37.7A
max VDDC power 44.8W

average

avg VDDC 0.882v
avg VDDC current 6.0a
avg VDDC power 6.9w

what do these readings mean and are they in a normal range? given that my PSU is doing its job properly, and power setting being set to max performance.
 

SherbetAddict

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That is your memory voltage/amperage/wattage (i think). It is nowhere near the total power consumption.