Power and GPU Frequency 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 or Package Temp) as well as Hot Spot (Junction Temperature) when available for our temperature data.
Power
On power, GPU-Z only shows the GPU Chip power on Intel Arc A770 and Radeon cards, not the Board power, unfortunately. Looking at GPU Chip power then, the Intel Arc A770 Limited Edition is pulling the most Wattage at 191.8W of power, which is 37% more than the Radeon RX 6600 XT and 38% more than the GeForce RTX 3060. If it reported Board power, it would also end up being the highest board power among these comparison video cards. Considering the performance difference at times though, this power is not out of line, and at this price range, this is a good power number.
Default GPU Frequency
With both NVIDIA and AMD GPUs, the GPU frequency is dynamic, well the same is mostly true with Intel. NVIDIA has GPU Boost, AMD has its Game Clock and Boost Clock quoted frequencies, and Intel GPUs will also boost beyond the base clock as needed. Typically, GPUs today can exceed the “Boost Clock” dynamically. We need to find out what the GPU frequency is while gaming. To do this we will record the GPU clock frequency over time while playing a game. We use Cyberpunk 2077 for this with a very long manual run-through at “Ultra” settings recording GPU-Z sensor data.
The Intel Arc A770 Limited Edition video card has a base clock of 2100MHz. According to our gaming graph, the frequency will hit 2400MHz (2.4GHz) while gaming, and at 1440p with “Ultra” settings in Cyberpunk 2077 does dynamically clock down to around 2300MHz at worse. However, we found at a less bottlenecked resolution, like 1080p, the clock frequency actually stayed at 2400MHz the entire time without any dips at all, it was completely consistent. It just depends, if you bottleneck the GPU more, there will be dips in frequency, but when it isn’t 2400MHz seems to be the maximum it will run at by default, and the frequency is very consistent. Therefore, compared to the 2100MHz base clock which is a 14% frequency boost, or 300MHz.
Temperature
All of the comparison video cards are custom AIB cards with custom coolers, so keep that in mind. That said, the Intel Arc A770 Limited Edition is keeping its cool at 70c GPU temp, which is less than the Radeon RX 6600 AIB card, and on par with the custom AIB GeForce RTX 3060 video card. Unfortunately, the software does not report the Hot Spot temp on Intel Arc A770, we are not sure if it has a sensor for such a temp reading to begin with. These are good temps.
GPU-Z and HWiNFO64 Sensor Data
The first two screenshots of GPU-Z above are at Default, in the third screenshot you can see the information reported by HWiNFO64 for the Intel Arc A770 Limited Edition.