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Load noise for the 180W mode peaks at 41.2dB(A), which is close to silent and a great result overall. To put this in context, we’re looking at a 150W card that’s having all of its cooling needs being met by a pair of fans running at a mere 750 RPM, which is a fraction of what they can actually run at.Įven with the factory overclock active, the cooler has no problem keeping up. Meanwhile with the quiet mode BIOS clocked at AMD’s reference clockspeeds, the fans only have to go to the card’s bare minimum fan speed – 25 percent – to keep the card cool, even under FurMark. At idle the card is entirely silent, thanks to its zero fan speed idle mode. From a temperature perspective, Sapphire seems to have just about perfectly tuned the card’s cooler.įinally, with noise, we get a chance to see how quietly the oversized Pulse can operate. In quiet mode the card never passes 68C, and even in full-on performance mode, the temperature maxes out at 74C. Moving on to temperatures, the large card has no problem cooling itself. This has made Tomb Raider turn into something of a best case scenario, as the card gets to idle a little bit. All told, even at 1440p with the highest available settings, Tomb Raider is having a hard time keeping the RX 5600 XT busy enough that the card is running at maximum clockspeeds. I will also quickly note that the delta in power consumption between FurMark and Tomb Raider is higher for the RX 5600 XT than we’ve seen it in other Navi cards. As a result, even when factory overclocked, the Pulse ends up drawing a bit less power than the nearest NVIDIA card. Then again, it’s not like NVIDIA was doing very well to begin with.
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So when running at full tilt, the Pulse RX 5600 XT is less power efficient than the RX 5700, owing to its overall lower performance. The blessing is that it improves the card’s performance to RTX 2060-levels, but the curse is that it does so while pushing power consumption to near RX 5700-levels. Sapphire factory overclock, however, is both a curse and a blessing. And while the RX 5600 XT ultimately ends up drawing more power, as we’ve seen it also handily outperforms those cards. Equally important, this keeps it relatively close to the GeForce GTX 1660 series. At reference clocks, we see AMD’s claims of higher power efficiency first-hand measured at the wall, the card draws around 30W less than the RX 5700. Meanwhile load power consumption also fares comparatively well. The card’s idle power consumption shaves off a couple of watts at the wall relative to the RX 5700, thanks to the lower amount of VRAM and fully idled fans. Taking a look at power consumption, we again find a good showing from Sapphire and AMD. Still, the latter sees the card average clockspeeds higher than the RX 5700, underscoring how these factory overclocked cards are primed to hit high clockspeeds, and that it’s going to be the lack of memory bandwidth that ultimately keeps them chasing the RX 5700. Unsurprisingly, the card is closer to its peak when running at AMD’s reference clockspeeds than it is the default factory overclocked mode. This goes hand-in-hand with the relatively low voltage, allowing the card to run rather efficiently and avoid heavier power throttling. Rather, the card is running out of room on the voltage-frequency curve, making it very easy to get close to its peak clockspeeds in the process. The card’s clockspeeds are remarkably consistent, and this comes down to the fact that the card is rarely ever entirely power-bound. Shifting over to clockspeeds, things look very good for the RX 5600 XT. No wonder AMD is talking up the power efficiency of the card even with its restricted clockspeeds, not going above 1.0v helps to ensure that power efficiency doesn’t take a dive by paying a massive power penalty to access the last few MHz worth of headroom. While third-tier cards like the RX 5600 XT are uncommon, when we do see them they are normally running higher voltage (leakier) parts, and this is what I was expecting for AMD’s new part. The card never goes higher than 0.977v, which is almost 0.05v lower than the Radeon RX 5700, itself already a good deal lower than the full-fat Navi 10-based Radeon RX 5700 XT.
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Interestingly, even with the BIOS update and AMD’s voltage-frequency curve extension, the voltages being used by our Sapphire Radeon RX 5600 XT are quite tame. While a high performing card is good in its own right, an excellent card can deliver great performance while also keeping power consumption and the resulting noise levels in check. Last, but not least of course, is our look at power, temperatures, and noise levels.