With energy reaching as excessive as 495.5 watts throughout {hardware} logging with this one check (3DMark Pace Method), the NITRO+ card is clearly making full use of these triple 8-pin PCIe energy connectors (slot energy didn’t exceed 60W). And whereas it solely briefly flirted with 500 watts, throughout this check the cardboard continuously pulled between 450W and 475W.
The Radeon RX 7900 XTX reference card already pulled extra energy than its rated TDP, however the Sapphire NITRO+ takes energy draw with this 5nm GPU to the subsequent degree. Apparently Navi 31 doesn’t scale significantly nicely with energy. We noticed features of 1% – 6% within the few assessments offered above, however these clearly come at a excessive price.
As to thermals, the cardboard was exceptionally cool (and quiet) in operation. I’m speaking load temps that hardly touched 60 C, with sizzling spot temps not too far above this. The truth is, in the course of the extremely unrealistic state of affairs of operating Furmark for quarter-hour, the very best temps recorded had been 73 C sizzling spot, with 61 C core. Now, this was a in a cool ~17 C room, however it’s nonetheless unbelievable.
And no, earlier than you ask, I didn’t check the cardboard in numerous orientations. Simply vertical on the check bench. And I despatched it again already. Sorry.
