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 the Hot Spot (Junction Temperature) when available for our temperature data.
Power
GPUZ does not have a Board Power for our RX 6600 so that gimps us a little bit. What we can comment on is the stock SAPPHIRE PULSE RX 7600 takes exactly the top limit of the wattage specification. When overclocked it goes beyond by 9%. Suffice it to say, the SAPPHIRE PULSE RX 7600 OC does draw more wattage than the older cards.
Temperature
On the flip side of that discussion, you can see the SAPPHIRE PULSE RX 7600 OC runs cool. The cooler on our card provides 8-10C cooler running. Notice how the Overclocked card is barely warmer despite running only the default BIOS fan profile.
Below are the GPUZ sensor data captured from the benchmark run-through. The default video card is listed on the left.
Discussion (7 replies)
Join Discussion →Nice card for 1080p gaming all things considered.
Surprisingly so......it feels like it could really overclock well, if the maximum wasn't capped.
Maybe there could be a 7600 xt with extra 50w to 70w budget (& doubling vram to 16gb) for $330 to $350
But, not sure if increasing power budget massively will retain the profit margin for AMD
If AMD wants to compete with Nvidia they need to get into AI acceleration in a big way. That's really the big hurdle to their path as a Trillion Dollar company leaving Intel in their wake and bringing competition to the AI market space.
But It's clear Intel is on that game plan as well. Yet they are doing it via dedicated code paths on their CPU's. Unfortunately for Intel they are not at the forefront of this technology, and the big players have the resources to fab their own custom chips to do this if it REALLY comes down to it.
Depends on how you want to compete, moreso than who you want to compete with.
nVidia is definitely pivoting into commercial AI. AMD so far has not, and has went the path of consumer devices / custom SOCs
I don't know that you necessarily want to compete against a company against their strength unless you have no other choice -- AMD has a lot of other things they are doing well without necessarily needing to throw the Billions of dollars it will take to dump into AI-specific computer R&D.
Will they catch nVidia at AI? Probably not - but that isn't necessarily a bad thing.
Nice review!
vs 1080ti? Sidegrade or upgrade? I don't give a hoot about ray tracing. I mean not that I really need to, it's doing Diablo 4 on 4K high at 60+ and looks great. Ultra punishes it a bit and I don't really see much difference....
Remember we tested at 1080. If you can run your games at 4K with what you have, I'd stay put. This card is not a 4K performer.....maybe, some games would be OK at 1440 as demonstrated, but not 4K.