To test for power consumption, we take a measurement from the plug socket. It is important to note that the figures below represent total system power use and not just the GPU. The CPU was always in a fixed state (4GHz overclock) so did not affect the additional power load when the GPU was placed under 100% load using Heaven 4.0 which was ran for 20 minutes at which point a load reading was taken. Idle readings were taken 5 minutes after system boot to ensure any background services and applications had loaded.

TEMPERATURE

To test temperatures we measured idle temperatures after booting windows, letting all applications finish loading and ran a few benchmarks. Once the benchmarks were complete we left the card to reach a cooling plateau where we then took the idle temperatures. For the load tests we set Heaven 4.0 running continuously for ~30 minutes recorded the peak/maximum GPU temperature.

With the 5700 Series, we've also begun reporting on the max. VRAM temperature throughout our stress tests, the result is below.

ACOUSTICS

The Taichi is louder than other 5700 XT graphics cards we’ve tested – mainly due to th default fan curve which manages the fans on this unit. We also note that the fans are somewhat smaller, especially the middle fan, all of which can contribute to a louder solution.