HIS Radeon HD3870 Review & Crossfire Performance Preview

by Michael "SKYMTL" Hoenig | November 14, 2007

Power Consumption

Please remember that this is the power consumption for the WHOLE SYSTEM.

The HIS HD3870 is definitely frugal when it comes to power consumption. It is extremely impressive to see how much consumption is cut now that ATI has moved away from the 80nm manufacturing process of the HD2900XT with its R600 core.

If you are using this card in a non-overclocked dual core system, I would not hesitate recommending you use a GOOD 450-500W power supply.

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