Power and Temperature Testing
We are measuring system power at the wall in Watts utilizing a Kill-A-Watt to measure total system power. The power supply in use during benching is Thermaltake Toughpower Grand RGB 850W 80+ Gold, which is more than enough for any GPU in this product class. During testing, the measured ambient room temperature was 72 F/22.2 C.
The lower the wattage the better, and in this regard the ASUS ROG STRIX GeForce GTX 1650 Super O4G GAMING is better in all scenarios. Even when you compare the stock wattage of the XFX Radeon RX 5500XT 4GB GDDR6 THICC II Pro with the Overclocked ASUS ROG STRIX GeForce GTX 1650 Super O4G GAMING, the GeForce counterpart comes out on top. In other words, performance per watt is still in Nvidia’s favor.
When overclocked, the XFX Radeon RX 5500XT 4GB GDDR6 THICC II Pro power draw jumps to 234W, or 9.34% more than stock. Along with this power draw increase, we see the GPU hot spot jump 14 degrees Celsius even with the fans cranked to 100%. While this fan setting is enough to keep the clocks stable, our GPU simply becomes annoyingly loud and most users would not want to run this configuration 24/7.
The ASUS ROG STRIX GeForce GTX 1650 Super O4G GAMING also runs much cooler in both stock and overclocked configurations. It’s important to note that I do not believe this has anything to do with XFX’s cooler implementation as much as it’s an issue of Navi 14 still needing more power than the competition’s offerings.