Videocards/VGA Reviews by stefan @ 2011-07-22
The Radeon HD 6670 video card from AMD comes with interesting features like UVD 3.0, Eyefinity with 3 video outputs and offers decent performance in games, while using lower resolutions like 1280x1024, 1600x1200 or 1680x1050, making it a card to consider when building a HTPC system.
Test Setup:
CPU: Intel Core i7 920 @ 3.2GHz HT
Motherboard: ASRock X58 Extreme
Memory: G.Skill F3-12800CL8T-6GBPI PI Series
Power Supply: Antec True Power New 750W
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 320GB 7200.10
Case: Cooler Master HAF 922 with 2 NB-Multiframe S-Series MF12-S3HS@1800RPM on the side
To find out the IDLE and maximum Full Load temperatures, I have used the latest version of Furmark, and let it run for about 15 minutes. To record the temperatures, the GPU-Z utility was running in the background. The recorded room temperature at the time of testing was 27.5 degrees Celsius:
Before finding out the noise the video card was producing, I have first measured the noise the system was producing with no video card installed and I found out it was 36.6dBA.
During the measurement readings, most of the fans inside the case were turned off, but the CPU (43%) and chipset one (30%).
At all times, the sound meter was placed 8cm under the video card.
The GPU fan was controlled by the Catalyst Control Center software:
The 3DMark Vantage scores were calculated by summing up the GPU and CPU subscores.
Here are the Vantage subscores separately:
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