Power and Temperature
To test the power and temperature we perform a manual run-through in Cyberpunk 2077 at “Ultra” settings for real-world in-game data. We use GPUz sensor data to record the results. We report on the GPUz sensor data for “Board Power” and “GPU Chip Power” when available for our Wattage data.
Total Board Power is not a reading that is available in GPUz on AMD video cards. The sensor data that is available on both to compare here is GPU Chip Power Draw, but just know this is just the GPU, not the whole board.
Overclocking the AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT increased the GPU Chip Power Draw by 7%. That’s about as much of a performance increase that we saw, so the power increase seems to be very linear, near 1:1 ratio for the performance increase. It does put it well above the GeForce RTX 3070 though, the RTX 3070 (compared to the overclock) is near 14% more GPU Chip power efficient, and it’s generally faster.
With the fans at 87% the temperature is 62c while overclocked. Temperature is not an issue, and the cooler is not holding back the overclocking potential. There is more temperature headroom here to increase GPU Voltage if that was an option, so the cooler works well, and doesn’t hold back overclocking potential on the built by AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT.