Sapphire RX 6800 XT Nitro+ Review

1. Introduction2. Sapphire RX 6800 XT Nitro+3. Testing Methodology4. 3DMark Fire Strike & Time Spy5. 3DMark DirectX Raytracing6. Control7. F1 20208. Ghost Recon: Breakpoint9. Metro Exodus10. Red Dead Redemption 211. Watch Dogs: Legion12. Clock Speed13. GPU Frequency Response14. Temperatures15. Acoustics16. Noise-Normalised Temperatures17. Power Consumption18. Overclocking19. Closing Thoughts20. View All Pages

For our temperature testing, we measure the peak GPU core temperature under load. A reading under load comes from running the 3DMark Time Spy stress test for 30 minutes.

Looking now at out of the box thermal performance, we can see the Nitro+ performs at a very similar level to the PowerColor Red Devil in terms of the raw thermals. In fact, the Silent BIOS on both the Nitro+ and the Red Devil recorded the exact same temperatures, hitting 77C on the edge and 94C for the junction. The Nitro+ Performance BIOS, meanwhile, hit 75C edge and 95C junction, which is an increase of 2C compared to the Red Devil’s OC BIOS. As we will see later though, power does play a part in this.

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