Power and Temp
In the graph we are comparing total system Wattage at the wall, results are in Watts and temperature is in Celsius at full-load.
Even though this video card has a 6-pin power connector for extra power delivery for high clock speeds and overclocking it is still very power efficient. Our highest peak Wattage while gaming was 200W. We were often hovering in the 180-190W range most of the time while gaming. This is combined with an AMD Ryzen 7 2700X CPU, so this shows you really don’t need a high-Wattage PSU for this video card.
When we overclocked the peak Wattage hit 212W, a 6% increase. The Wattage hovered mostly around 200W when overclocked.
The GPU temperatures are great at 58c by default. ASUS DirectCU II cooling works extremely well here keeping the GPU below 60c. This is not a hot video card despite how fast the clock speed is running at 1950MHz by default. We did use a 100% fan speed for the overclock, and with that higher voltage and 2055MHz clock speed and 9.4GHz memory speed, the GPU was only at 51c.
Naturally, you don’t need the 100% fan speed for this overclock, you’ll be fine on automatic fan speed. The fans are not loud either, even at 100% we doubt you’d be able to hear the fans if inside a case. This is a silent video card at default operation, and the fans stay off below 55c.