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Rx470 low power consumption?

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Okay, so I've bought sapphire rx470 4GB version, and i have one question to ask. 
Is it okay if my graphics card "only" consumes 85 watts of power during gaming, and in furmark maxed out power consumption is 94 watts?
 
I've also tried in radeon wattman power limit settings to push the slider to the end, but nothings changed. 
Also to mention i've bought it as a second hand device. Everything works fine, but i was reading that it usually consums more than 100 watts...
My power supply is chieftec 700watts 80plus bronze. So it has enough power, but I'm just curious is that the right way it should be working. 
Also in meny onther rewies I saw more power consumption than mine has...
Maybe the previous owner did something with the bios? How should I inspect that?
 

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Check the settings cause I'm pretty sure gpus have a low power consumption mode, which could be on

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It's normal. Polaris cards have about 25w for the other stuff like display driver and various minor stuff, even powering the VRM itself. It might be a 120w card, but the GPU die (which is what you can read) pulls less.

 

This is different to Nvidia's power monitoring, which reports the sum of everything on the card that pulls power. I think Nvidia cards even record power draw on the fans.

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I've already checked the settings and it is set to off (as far as power efficiency goes). 

I've thought it might be that cause it has probably been used as a mining card, so maybe the bios was changed idk...

I just want to know is that power consumption normal or not?

 

Few minutes ago i did a unigine heaven benchmark (everything on max, 1080p, 8x antialiasing...) and total power consumption was 105watts, max temp 75 C, the score was 1248 and 49.5 avarage fps

If someone has the same card as me I would appreciate to share the resutls. 

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11 minutes ago, Bokisa said:

I've already checked the settings and it is set to off (as far as power efficiency goes). 

I've thought it might be that cause it has probably been used as a mining card, so maybe the bios was changed idk...

I just want to know is that power consumption normal or not?

 

Few minutes ago i did a unigine heaven benchmark (everything on max, 1080p, 8x antialiasing...) and total power consumption was 105watts, max temp 75 C, the score was 1248 and 49.5 avarage fps

If someone has the same card as me I would appreciate to share the resutls. 

I did have a Gigabyte RX 470 G1 Gaming, that card pulls 90 ish watts in max gaming load according to software.

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Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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