Power Consumption Comparison of Radeon HD 5870, HD 5850

Press Releases · Author HaSLeS · September 14, 2009 · 3745 reads · ★★★★★ (3 votes)

As we said a couple of days ago, Radeon HD 5870 consumes power of 188W and 27W when loaded and idle respectively, and the fellows at Hardware-infos has revealed that HD 5850 has a better control ability on the power consumption part.

Radeon HD 5850 also eats 27 watts when idle, but shows lower power consumption when loaded - 170W, compared to 188W on HD 5870. The maximum chip power of both cards is 110W.

Source: expreview.com