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 or Package Temp) as well as Hot Spot (Junction Temperature) when available for our temperature data.
The TGP for the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER and MSI GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER GAMING X TRIO WHITE is 285W by the spec. In our testing, the board power reported by GPU-Z shows the MSI GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER GAMING X TRIO WHITE in three different configurations, we have the card showing the power usage on the SILENT BIOS position, the GAMING BIOS position, and our manual overclock.
You can see that on the SILENT BIOS, the MSI GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER GAMING X TRIO WHITE is at 271W board power, which is only 5% more than the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti. Moving to the GAMING BIOS moves that power draw up 4% to 280W, still overall under the TGP. It seems the GAMING BIOS, with the fan speed increased, allows the power to be pushed a little harder.
When we overclocked the video card, the power draw was in the middle here because we were not able to set the fan speed at this time for overclocking. It tried to keep the card within a power envelope. However, on the overclocking page, you can see that our frequency did increase while overclocked. The Radeon RX 7900 XT by comparison, uses a lot more power.
The MSI GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER GAMING X TRIO WHITE is shown with its temperatures in the SILENT BIOS, GAMING BIOS, and overclocked. In all situations we never changed the fan speed ourselves, it was on automatic. The MSI GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER GAMING X TRIO WHITE’s cooling works extremely well, keeping the GPU temps cool in any BIOS setting, or when overclocked, without having to touch the fans at all. The Hot Spot temps were also well kept, under the temps of the MSI RTX 4070 Ti GAMING SLIM and well under that of the Radeon RX 7900 XT.
GPU-Z Sensor Data
In the GPU-Z screenshots above, we are comparing the Default SILENT BIOS (Left) with the GAMING BIOS (Middle) and the Overclock (Right) to see the differences. We can see that with the GAMING BIOS, the fan speed increases to 36% from 32% in SILENT BIOS mode. The Voltages remain the same between those modes, but the TDP is at its limit in the GAMING BIOS mode. When we overclocked, the fans actually stayed at 32%, and the TDP was closer to the SILENT BIOS, due to the fact that we could not increase the power limit or control the fan speeds at this time, doing so would surely allow a higher gaming performance increase.