Power and Temperature
We will now take a look at the peak power and temperatures these video cards output. All power measurements are taken at the wall with a Kill-A-Watt reader. Temperatures are recorded using GPU-z logging while driving laps around Night City within Cyberpunk 2077.
This chart is a better representation of potential OC wattage than our previous chart as voltages could be fully manipulated in software this time around. At some point in the near future, I do intend to update the OC section of the last review. Switching gears back to our current chart shows some good results for Ampere in general. All cards at stock operate at lower temperatures and wattages than the Turing based NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super Founders Edition. We are talking 13% less wattage coming from our EVGA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti XC GAMING system when compared to the Turing competition. All of this occurs while creating less heat and generating more frames in every scenario we could throw its way. Its also the least power hungry and thusly heat generating card in our lineup. At stock we see a maximum system wattage of 328W with our temperatures maxing out at a cool 68c. Applying our overclock takes the EVGA card up to the second spot in our chart at 369W total system power used, while generating a maximum temperature of 72c. What we see here is that EVGA has given us a cooling system that’s more than capable of handling both stock and overclocked operation.