Here is a quick test of the Sapphire Radeon HD 4670 GDDR4 with Arctic Cooling fan.
The connectors are VGA, DVI and HDMI. The card occupies two expansion slots.
Test System
- Pentium Dual-Core E5200
- GIGABYTE GA-E7AUM-DS2H
- DDR2-800 2 x 2GB
- Antec NSK2480, fans at Low
- Room temperature: 22°C
Fan Speed and Noise
Here is the Fan Settings in RBE:
The fan runs at the constant speed of
34% up to 60°C. It is quieter than HIS H467QT512P at this speed. When FurMark is running, the temperature stays around 67-70°C and the fan is running at 56%. It is slightly noisier than HIS. The noise at 50% is roughtly equivalent to HIS (well, my ears are the sound level meter
).
GPU Temperature
Sapphire
- Idle: 38°C
- Video Playback: 40°C
- FurMark (after 30 min running): 68°C
HIS
- Idle: 36°C
- Video Playback: 39°C
- FurMark (after 30 min running): 68°C
So the GPU temperature of the Sapphire card is more or less the same as HIS. (If the case ventilation were bad, maybe the HIS card would stay lower because of its better heat exhausting system.) The picture below is a screenshot of CCC when FurMark is running with the Sapphire card.
Power Consumption
The power consumption of the total system measured with Kill-A-Watt:
Sapphire
- Idle: 73W
- Video Playback: 82W
- FurMark: 148W
HIS
- Idle: 72W
- Video Playback: 82W
- FurMark: 140W
Higher power consumption of the Sapphire card at 3D load is perhaps a trade-off of the better performance by GDDR4 at 550MHz (3D performance is better by a few percent).