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.
As we indicated earlier, this video card does have a dual-BIOS. It is on “Silent Mode” by default, and you can optionally change it over to “Gaming Mode.” This only changes the fan curve. We did take power readings on both BIOS’s to make sure. You can see that GPU Chip and Board Power are similar between both BIOS’s, so they have the same performance.
Overclocking the video card does increase the power as expected. We see a 3% increase in GPU Chip power and a 6% increase in Board Power. These are very efficient power numbers. We experienced between 6-8% better performance with the overclock in this review, and it was achieved with only a 6% increase in power. That’s very efficient.
Compared to the AMD Radeon R X6800, the MSI RTX 3070 Ti SUPRIM X does consume more GPU Chip power.
We also tested GPU and GPU Hot Spot temperature between the Silent and Gaming BIOS modes. You can see the advantage the Gaming BIOS mode makes by reducing the GPU temperature by 2.7 degrees, and the Hot Spot temperature by 3.1 degrees. It does make the GPU run slightly cooler, but this did not affect performance, it just runs the fans faster. It’s overall not a huge difference in temperature.
Compared to the Founders Edition the MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Ti SUPRIM X runs much cooler, even on Silent Mode. The Founders Edition reached 76c GPU temp, and here the MSI RTX 3070 Ti SUPRIM X is only hitting 71.7c on Silent Mode to boot. This shows that the MSI TWIN FROZR 2S cooling system setup on this video card is very much superior.