ATI Radeon HD 5450 & HD 5570 Review
Street Fighter IV
Street Fighter IV brings one of the legendary button-mashing, tear-your-friend-to-pieces, arcade and console fighter favourites to the PC.
This epic favourite will have to settle for borderline playable (at these settings) on the HD 5450 while the HD 5570 really steps up to the plate and delivers some solid performance.
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. =)