The NITRO+ card is clearly making full use of these triple 8 pin PCIe power connectors as the power hits 495.5 watts during hardware logging in this one test (3DMark Speed Way) (slot power is 60W did not exceed). Also, while it worked only briefly at 500 watts, the card was frequently pulled between 450W and 475W during this test.
The Radeon RX 7900 XTX reference card drew more power than its rated TDP, but Sapphire NITRO+ takes power consumption to the next level with this 5 million GPU. Apparently, the Navi 31 doesn’t scale particularly well with power. We saw 1% to 6% gains in some of the tests above, but these obviously come at a high cost.
As for thermals, the card was pretty cool (and quiet). The load temperature I’m talking about barely hits 60C, and the hot spot temperature doesn’t go much beyond that. In fact, in a very unrealistic scenario where he ran Furmark for 15 minutes, the highest recorded temperature was 73 C hotspot and 61 C for the core. Now, this was a cool room, no more than 17C, but it’s still great.
No, before you asked, I didn’t test the card in different orientations, just vertical on the test bench. And I already sent it back. sorry.
