Power & Temperatures
Now as mentioned, we have two cards here from different AIBs. The XFX QICK 309 and the Sapphire Pulse OC and each have their merits for cooling performance, power and fan speeds. It’s here where we put them both through a one-hour loop of F1 23 to see how they hold up over time and to simulate a prolonged gaming session.
The Sapphire card came in slightly warmer than the XFX card, with the GPU at 67 degrees, and with a hotspot of 86c, so again, on the warmer side, but still well within thermal tolerances. The memory junction temperature was the same as the XFX at 84 degrees. The clock speed wasn’t as high at just 2557MHz, but in terms of performance, the Sapphire was within the margin of error limits of where the XFX card was. Fan speed-wise, it was a little higher than the XFX at just under 1700 RPM but still without the territory of being fairly inaudible and also just peaked above its power limits at 192 Watts.
