Measuring Power Efficiency
Gamer Index Percentage per Watt (Power Efficiency Test)
The efficiency ranking of our test subject winds up very similar to other Radeon HD 6850–based cards. Let’s take a look at the temperatures next.
It takes guts to try passively cooling a 127 W graphics processor. PowerColor sells the first Radeon HD 6850 we've seen topped only with a heatsink. Does the triple-slot cooler do its job, or is Barts simply too complex of a GPU to cool like this?
Gamer Index Percentage per Watt (Power Efficiency Test)
The efficiency ranking of our test subject winds up very similar to other Radeon HD 6850–based cards. Let’s take a look at the temperatures next.
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