Quote Originally Posted by Nintendork View Post
No, see the anand chart.



You won't expect to consume the same as 6870 being a faster card (and twice the memory) but Powertune is your friend, a pretty cool feature.
Maybe same question for duploxxx, but aren't those CF power numbers of anandtech strange?

full system power
1 6950 --> 292W
2 6950 --> 472W
difference = 180W

1 6970 --> 340W
2 6970 --> 564W
difference 220W

so these numbers are without power tuning?

also that would imply that the rest of the system would only consume 292-180 = 112W

but that would mean the 5770 would consume 130W (243-112).

I know there can be illeguralities as cpu limited or other things, but those would make the gap bigger instead of smaller. (if for example card 2 only is used 80% due to limitations somewhere else, the actual card consumption would be even higher).