PowerColor 5700 RED DEVIL review - Graphics card temperatures

Graphics card temperatures

So here we'll have a look at GPU temperatures. First up, IDLE (desktop) temperatures as reported through the software on the thermal sensors of the GPU. IDLE temperatures first, overall anything below 50 Degrees C is considered okay, anything below 40 Degrees C is nice. We threw in some cards at random that we have recently tested in the above chart. But what happens when we are gaming? We fire off an intense game-like application at the graphics card and measure the highest temperature of the GPU. 

So with the card fully stressed we kept monitoring temperatures and noted down the GPU temperature as reported by the thermal sensor. These tests have been performed with a 20~21 Degrees C room temperature, this is a peak temperature based on a GPU stress loop.

The Red Devil has a Silent and performance BIOS modus you can manually switch. Silent mode offers better temps and accoustics, at the cost of a bit of performance.

Long Duration Stress Temperature and GPU Throttling clock

With performance mode enabled we see the card hovering at a ~1700 Mhz hame clock frequency. 

With performance silent mode enabled we see the card hovering at a ~1625 Mhz game clock frequency.