ATI Radeon HD 5450 & HD 5570 Review
Resident Evil 5
Another series that is an old favourite, Resident Evil 5 brings with it a top-notch gaming experience and rich, fluid visuals.
RE5 as it is known, does justice to the series and both Radeon cards do justice to themselves, each in their own right. The HD 5450 offers semi-playable framerates at these settings. However, when either the resolution or the settings are reduced, the game is smooth enough to have you killing hordes of zombies on a $50 card. The HD 5570 can manage more and at 1440×900, you are able to run the game comfortably on high settings.
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. =)