For our temperature testing, we measure the peak GPU core temperature under load. A reading under load comes from running Cyberpunk 2077 for 30 minutes.
For out of the box thermal performance, the Gaming OC does the best of any RX 6700 XT we have tested so far. The GPU edge temperature peaked at 63C, with the junction at 84C, both several degrees cooler than the Sapphire Nitro+ when using its Performance BIOS.