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For our temperature testing, we measure the peak GPU core temperature under load, as well as the GPU temperature with the card idling on the desktop. A reading under load comes from running the 3DMark Fire Strike Ultra stress test 20 times. An idle reading comes after leaving the system on the Windows desktop for 30 minutes.
A peak of 68C is a very good result for an aftermarket card – we can't say how much cooler than the Founders 2070 this would be, but you can clearly see it is one of the coolest-running cards we have tested so far. The idle temperature is relatively high at 44C, but this is because the fans stop spinning once the card drops below 60C – so it doesn't idle as cool as a card that keeps the fans spinning at all times.
Our thermal gun shows excellent results as well, with a peak of just 64.4C on the front of the card, and 61.4C on the back – not surprisingly, this reading was taken from the area directly behind the GPU core. Still, both results are fantastic and show the 7th gen Twin Frozr cooler is certainly up to the task.
