ATI Radeon HD 5450 & HD 5570 Review
HAWX
From Top Gun to HAWX, a lot has taken place with flight simulator games, and this title brings with it fast-paced action and a lot of special effects. We sure have come a long way in graphics. Let’s see how far these cards will take us.
HAWX provided playable average framerates for the HD 5450 on the Low settings and the HD 5570 is barely playable on the High settings. This leaves some room for you tweak the settings a little bit so you can enjoy your game.
The 5570 consumes 69 watts more power under load and 40 watts more in idle? No way, something must have gone wrong here. The results on other sites are in a different league – single digit watt difference in idle and ~30 watts under load.
Thanks for your comment Howitzer. The fact is exactly as I stated, this is the power draw on the *entire* system. Other sites may have the tools such as power meters that can measure the video card power draw at the slot level. I am only privy to a Kill-A-Watt unit.
The major factor in this is that the 1100W PSU that powers my system has driven up the idle power load quite a bit. Now the difference in the figures will also take into account any additional power draw from the CPU also being under load along with other smaller components like hard drive(s) spinning up and so on.
We do hope to continue improving our testing with better equipment, as our very limited resources will allow.
Thanks for your time. =)