Launching alongside our review of the sapphire rx 570 pulse 4gb card is this review of the rx 580 pulse 8gb.
Sapphire pulse rx 580 power consumption.
1 x 8 pin 1 x 6 pin.
Power consumption 225w 235w power requirement 1 x 8 pin.
Sapphire radeon rx 580 nitro 8gb review power consumption idle and gaming in order to get an idea of a gpu s power draw we loop the unigine valley 1 0 benchmark 2 560 x 1 400 ultra detail.
Those numbers increase to an average of 1 1688v and a peak of 1 19v for the company s nitro radeon rx 580 limited edition.
This puts the power consumption of the rx 570 at 10w under the geforce gtx 1070 while the rx 580 is 17w above it.
Sapphire s robust design sure looks pretty when two 255mm cards are in formation with no need for a crossfire bridge and the limited edition models are factory overclocked to 1 450mhz for good.