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 of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti is 160W, and for the MSI GeForce RTX 4060 Ti GAMING X SLIM WHITE 16G, it is 165W. Looking at board power, our MSI GeForce RTX 4060 Ti GAMING X SLIM WHITE 16G hit a total board power of 166.9W, which is right in line with that number. This is more than the Founders Edition GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8GB by 8%. More VRAM does consume more board power, so this makes sense. Overclocking the MSI GeForce RTX 4060 Ti GAMING X SLIM WHITE 16G increased the power draw by 11% and still remains under 200W overall.
Looking at the GPU Chip Power, the MSI GeForce RTX 4060 Ti GAMING X SLIM WHITE 16G uses 6% more power than the Founders Edition RTX 4060 Ti 8GB. Overclocking increases GPU Chip Power by 10%.
The MSI TRI FROZR 3 cooling on the MSI GeForce RTX 4060 Ti GAMING X SLIM WHITE 16G is working well and actually keeps this higher-powered video card cooler than the Founders Edition by a couple of degrees. Even when overclocked, the temperature did not increase much because the fans automatically increased rotation slightly. The slim profile of the MSI GeForce RTX 4060 Ti GAMING X SLIM WHITE 16G does not hold back the temperatures at all, this video card is well-cooled and very quiet.
Even the hot spot GPU temperature on the MSI GeForce RTX 4060 Ti GAMING X SLIM WHITE 16G is cooler than the Founders Edition GeForce RTX 4060 Ti video card by a degree. When overclocked, that does increase, but not wildly so.
On the left screenshot below is GPU-Z at default, and on the right is GPU-Z overclocked. We can see that the fans automatically spin up to 34% when overclocked, compared to 30% at default, it’s enough of a difference to keep the GPU at a reasonable temperature, proving how well the cooling works. The noise profile did not increase. We are also definitely hitting beyond 100% TDP, but there does still seem to be power headroom left interestingly, so we were literally at the limits of the core frequency without adding Voltage to push it further, you will notice the Voltage stays the same. With a Voltage increase, we think the GPU frequency could be pushed to 3GHz or slightly higher with this video card, and the cooling would be able to handle it.
