ATI Radeon HD 5450 & HD 5570 Review
Unigine Heaven (DX11)
Unigine™ is a top-notch technology, that can be easily adapted to various projects due to its elaborated software design and flexible toolset. It is already used in the development of different projects (mostly games).
I think the transition to DX11 will become even smoother as time goes on. Nvidia gives a good showing in this benchmark but has no numbers to show in the DX11 sector because we are all still waiting on “Fermi”. The HD 5450 and HD 5570 both offer little in the way of mind-blowing performance here but DX11 is definitely represented and the potential of these cards are superb.
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. =)