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

We take our noise measurements with the sound meter positioned 1 foot from the graphics card. I measured the noise floor to be 32 dBA, thus anything above this level can be attributed to the graphics cards. The power supply is passive for the entire power output range we tested all graphics cards in, while all CPU and system fans were disabled. A reading under load comes from running the 3DMark Time Spy stress test for 30 minutes.

In terms of default fan behaviour, the Performance BIOS saw the fans spin up to 44%, or about 1500rpm, producing 37dBa on our sound meter. This is fractionally quieter than the Red Devil’s OC BIOS, but I’m not sure the human ear would actually be able to notice the difference. As for the Silent BIOS, this dropped fan speed to 35%, or 1200rpm, producing whisper quiet noise levels. In actual fact, just as we found with the Red Devil, with the fans spinning this slowly, a slight amount of coil whine is actually producing more noise than the fans themselves, but I didn’t notice this once the rest of the system fans were spinning at normal speeds.

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