Power Consumption & Temperatures

Despite the potentially enormous ability consumption of the R9 295X2, it'southward a sleeper at idle, consuming just 10 watts more than the R9 290X. It was likewise slightly more fuel efficient at idle than a pair of GTX 780 SLI cards.

When playing Crysis 3, the R9 295X2 takes the system ability consumption to 566 watts, 13% more than the older Hard disk drive 7990. This was too 16% more ability than consumed past the GTX 780 SLI organisation and 86% more than than a single R9 290X.

In Max Payne iii, the R9 295X2 peaked at 505 watts making information technology the only system configuration to break the 500w bulwark in this game, pulling eighteen% more power than the GTX 780 SLI cards and 63% more than a single R9 290X.

Sleeping Dogs pushed the R9 295X2's system consumption to most 600 watts, 18% more than the GTX 780 SLI cards and 69% more than the R9 290X.

Temperatures

In the past, nosotros take used FurMark to measure out maximum operating temperatures but we are in the process of changing testing methods. For now, nosotros are going to measure operating temperatures with the three games in which we test power consumption.

In all iii games, nosotros reached a maximum operating temperature of simply 62 degrees. Even after an hour of playing Crysis 3, the temperature never exceeded 62 degrees and both GPUs remained locked at 1018MHz with nearly 100% utilization on both for nigh of that time.

As impractical as the closed-loop organization might be, information technology has proven to exist the perfect solution for these extreme dual-GPU graphics cards.