Power Usage

Normally in this section I would be taking a look at all of the cooling and noise performance. Seeing as today I’m looking at Crossfire performance so really the only thing to look at in this section is the power usage test results. I ran the two 370’s through two tests, Heaven Benchmark 4.0 and the newer Valley Benchmark as we are moving away from the Heaven Benchmark slowly. So how did it perform? Well in Heaven Benchmark the peak wattage was 346 watts but the more demanding Valley Benchmark pulls a much higher 470 watts. This is because the of the lack of Crossfire support for the Heaven Benchmark that we saw earlier. At 470 watts the 370’s pull nearly as much power as the GTX 980 TI but less than the R9 390’s that I have tested previously.