Power Use of goods and services & Temperatures

As I mentioned earlier the AMD reference card comes fitted with an itty bitty heatsink and to be honest it struggles at cooling the RX 480. When idling the card sits close to 40 degrees in a room with an ambient air temperature of just 21 degrees. Nether load it apace heats up over 70 degrees and maxes prohibited at around 81 degrees. So standardized temps to what we saw from the Founder Variant cards, which is largely what we've strike anticipate from AMD and Nvidia reference cards.

The Radeon RX 480 features a TDP rating of 150 watts, which is pretty low compared to the R9 390, for instance. However, the GTX 1070 as wel has a 150 watt TDP military rank and the GTX 960 is rated at 120 Isaac Watts, so I was dandy to get wind what sort of consumption we would see from our test system when running the RX 480.

So here we see when playing The Witcher 3 that the RX 480 used-up the aforesaid amount of power as the GTX 970 and only slightly less than the GTX 1070. It also used slightly more than the R9 380 and quite an a trifle more than the GTX 960. I'm not sure how I feel about this result.

This sentence when testing with Black Ops III we witness that the RX 480 consumes a similar amount of power as the GTX 1070 and slightly more the R9 380.

Interestingly, in Just Cause 3 the RX 480 consumed much exponent than the GTX 1070 and slightly to a lesser degree the GTX 970. Given that it was on average 34% slower than the GTX 1070, the fact that it uses a similar level of power is disappointing.