Power & Temperatures
As always, it’s worth taking a look into the cooling performance of the Founders card and what it means for the sustained GPU clocks, fan speed and power draw, so in typical fashion, we booted up F1 24 for an hour long loop to see how the card holds up under a typical gaming session.
It’s here where after an hour, we found temperatures to be under control, considering the smaller surface area of the Founders design, averaging around 73 degrees on the GPU temperature, and 74 degrees on the memory junction temperature. The GPU clock remained pretty consistent, averaging just above 2700MHz, with our memory clocked in at 14001MHz or 28Gbps Effective. What was interesting was the fan speed which in our overlay came in above 2400 RPM, which I would normally say would lead to a very loud operation, but either, the software is reporting incorrectly or NVIDIA have managed some voodoo here, as it wasn’t loud or noticeable at all over the rest of the fans inside the system. That aside, the total board power averaged around 226W which gives a fair amount of headroom considering the cards 250W TDP.
