Fan behavior, noise level
The fans are low-profile, making them quieter at higher speeds compared to many other cards. The minimum performance that can be set in the fan control is 15%, at which they run at around 700 RPM, and the measured noise level is below 30 dBA. They start to become noticeably audible around 1500 RPM. At a normal distance of about one meter, they become audible around 1800 RPM.
Cyberpunk 2077, RT Medium, 3840 × 2160
The first set of measurements comes from the Cyberpunk 2077 benchmark with RT Medium settings at a resolution of 3840 × 2160 pixels. With this setup, the GPU is fully loaded. This involves eight consecutive benchmark runs.
The graph always shows the last run, from which the average value for the warmed-up card is calculated.
The GPU clock speed ranges between 2619 and 2788 MHz, with an average of 2685 MHz.
The card’s power consumption hovers around the GPU limit read from HWiNFO. Green represents the card’s power consumption according to monitoring, and blue is the CPU’s power consumption according to monitoring (read via HWiNFO).
The dark color represents the total PC power consumption measured with a UT71E multimeter.
The average chip temperature is below 60 °C, but the control is based on the hotspot temperature. Memory temperatures are at the 90 °C mark.
A small spike always appears with a sudden increase in load when starting the test, but the values are lower than on the Pulse RX 9070 XT. The fan speeds are similar to those of the Pulse RX 9070 XT.
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