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 AMD reference Total Board Power for the AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT is up to 190W. However, XFX actually states that the TGP for the XFX Speedster QICK 309 Radeon RX 7600 XT Black Edition Video Card is 165W, so these are most likely being pulled or tested from different sources.
We can see above that the XFX Speedster QICK 309 Radeon RX 7600 XT Black is pulling 193W board power according to GPU-Z while gaming. This puts it right in line with AMD’s total board power number. With that power of 193W, we can see that the XFX Speedster QICK 309 Radeon RX 7600 XT Black draws 16% more power than the Radeon RX 7600, or 27W more. When overclocked, it pulled another 32W and rose to 225W of power, or a 17% increase in power from overclocking.
By comparison, the GeForce RTX 4060 uses a lot less power and is way more efficient. It pulls 39% less power compared to the XFX Speedster QICK 309 Radeon RX 7600 XT Black. When the XFX Speedster QICK 309 Radeon RX 7600 XT Black is overclocked, that power draw is 47% higher than the RTX 4060 and 26% more power than the Radeon RX 7600.
The XFX Speedster QICK 309 Radeon RX 7600 XT Black is a pro at cooling, it runs so much cooler than the Radeon RX 7600. The XFX Speedster QICK 309 Radeon RX 7600 XT Black is running with a higher power draw, more VRAM, and faster clocks, yet has a GPU temperature 12 degrees cooler than the Radeon RX 7600 and more importantly a Hot Spot temp that is 8 degrees cooler. In fact, it’s GPU temp is right around the lower power draw RTX 4060. When we overclock it, the temperatures do not increase, yet we are getting a big GPU and memory overclock. This is because the fans automatically spin up a little faster on automatic when overclocked, as we can see below.
GPU-Z Sensor Data
In the GPU-Z screenshots above, we are comparing the Default (Left) with the Overclock (Right) to see the differences. We can see that the fan speed only increases from 30% to 37% when overclocked, yet that is enough to keep the GPU even cooler than it was before, and the Hot Spot remains the same when overclocked. This means the fan is very quiet. We did see the Voltage automatically increase from 1.156V to 1.193V when overclocking.