Power and Temperature
Power
Above, we see that by default, the SAPPHIRE NITRO+ Radeon RX 9070 XT uses the highest amount of power for the default benchmark run-through compared to the other cards. We see anywhere from 5 to 14% more power utilized. It also runs right at the TBP listed at 330W. When overclocked and pushing the power limit to +10%, the card uses every bit it can; in fact, pushing to some pretty high power usage for very little performance gain.
Temperature
In HWInfo64, our card shows the same maximum temperature whether at default or overclocked. The fans were left on the default curve, so all the card does is spin up the fans from 34% to 41% to manage the heat increases in overclock. That’s pretty good right there and says a lot about the heatsink for this video card, SAPPHIRE did a great job with the cooling on the SAPPHIRE NITRO+ Radeon RX 9070 XT; it works well.
