Club3D Radeon HD 7850 royalQueen Review
Published by Christian Ney on 28.08.13Page:
Conclusion
| General | + | - | |
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Club3D’s variant of the AMD Radeon HD 7850 leaves a mixed
impression. The card isn't really special, no factory overclocking was
made and it is equiped with the reference PCB. On the bright side, it
features very good cooling solution, silent and effective. On the dark
side the power consumption is not good in idle and its price is too high
for what you get. The bundle is okay for such a card, no more than what you need. |
- Performance - Cooling |
- No Factory Overclocking
- Price |
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| Cooling / Noise Level | + | - | |
| Despite that the cooler looks really simple and cheap it left a really good impression, it's a real wolf in sheep's clothing. GPU Temperatures were quite bad actually in idle but very good under load where it managed to defeat ASUS' DirectCU 2 cooler. The GPU hit only 75°C under heavy FurMark load with the fans locked at 30 % fan speed. Now with the fan in auto, after playing BattleField 3 for an hour the maximum temperature hit by the GPU was 61°C. In this case the maximum fan speed was as low as 33%, translated it means a noise level of 32.5 dBA (noiseless). |
- inaudible in 2D
- Silent in 3D |
- Temperatues in idle | |
| Performance | + | - | |
No surprise here, without any factory overclocking the card
performs exactly like the reference card from AMD. |
- Performance/Watt
- Power consumption under load |
- Power consumption in idle
- Performance/Price |
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| Recommendation / Price | + | - | |
| We have looked up the prices of several HD 7850 on geizhals and we saw that the cheapest offer starts at 139 Euros excluding shipping costs accross the EU. On the price comparison portal the royalQueen is listed at 154 Euros. That's a lot considering that the royalQueen has only its cooler that makes it interesting and some cheaper cards may have a better cooler paired with a factory overclocking. Therefore it's hard to recommend this card at the moment. | - Gaming | ||
| We gave the Radeon HD 7850 royalQueen from Club3D 3 out of 5 stars. | |||
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