Review: XFX R7870 Black Edition Overclocked

Benchmark: Power Consumption

Here's where custom-cooled and factory-overclocked cards begin to mix things up. The Radeon HD 7870 offers excellent power-draw characteristics, but by applying an overclock, the under-load figures jump significantly. The XFX card draws 220W while playing Crysis 2, some 20 per cent more than AMD's reference design.