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 GPU-Z sensor data to record the results. We report on the GPU-Z sensor data for “Board Power” and “GPU Chip Power” when available for our Wattage data. For temperature data, we report the GPU (Edge Temp of the GPU) as well as Hot Spot (Junction Temperature) when available for our temperature data.
AMD GPUs only report GPU Chip power in GPU-Z. We can see that the MSI Radeon RX 6600 XT GAMING X 8G utilizes the least amount of power, in fact, lower than the EVGA RTX 3060. Overclocking increases power by just 5%. This is not bad, considering performance increases as high as 10% overclocked.
Temperature is well managed on the MSI Radeon RX 6600 XT GAMING X. The TWIN FROZR 8 thermal design is working well, it keeps the GPU under 60c, in fact, 57c and Hot Spot at 83c. This runs cooler than the custom EVGA RTX 3060. When we overclock it, at 100% fan speed, but overclocked very high, GPU temp drops to just 49c and Hot Spot is very cool at 76c. Temperature is not holding this GPU back from overclocking.