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. It should be noted that here we report the data using GPUZ. As has been discussed in Overclocking, HWINFO 64 was also used for data collection. The power and temperature data were very close in comparison, so GPUZ was utilized in this section.
Power
As expected, the overclocked video card draws more power. Both our MSI Radeon RX 7900 XTX GAMING TRIO CLASSIC at default and overclocked draw more power than the stated maximum of 355 Watts. The NVIDIA RTX 4080 FE draws the least power by a margin of 15%.
Temperature
In the default setting, both video cards run nearly the same temperature, which gives kudos to the MSI Radeon RX 7900 XTX GAMING TRIO CLASSIC heatsink and cooling design. We find that the MSI Radeon RX 7900 XTX GAMING TRIO runs several degrees cooler on the GPU package temp, and even a great deal cooler on Hot Spot temps, compared to the made-by-AMD design. That one got up to 88c on Hot Spot, while the MSI Radeon RX 7900 XTX GAMING TRIO CLASSIC only reaches 81c, so we are definitely seeing the advantages of the TWIN FROZR 2 cooling design from MSI.
The overclocked card is the coolest simply because the fan cycles are increased during this portion of the testing. GPUZ data is posted below. The default benchmarks are on the left.
