ASRock RX 5700 XT Taichi X OC+ Review

1. Introduction2. ASRock RX 5700 XT Taichi X OC+3. Testing Methodology4. 3DMark Fire Strike & Time Spy (1080p, 1440p, 4K)5. Battlefield V (1080p, 1440p, 4K)6. The Division 2 (1080p, 1440p, 4K)7. F1 2019 (1080p, 1440p, 4K)8. Far Cry New Dawn (1080p, 1440p, 4K)9. Gears 5 (1080p, 1440p, 4K)10. Ghost Recon: Wildlands (1080p, 1440p, 4K)11. Metro Exodus (1080p, 1440p, 4K)12. Middle Earth: Shadow of War (1080p, 1440p, 4K)13. Shadow of the Tomb Raider (1080p, 1440p, 4K)14. Total War: Three Kingdoms (1080p, 1440p, 4K)15. Clock Speed16. Temperatures17. Acoustics18. Power Consumption19. Overclocking: Frequency and Games20. Overclocking: Temperatures, Acoustics, Power21. Closing Thoughts22. View All Pages

We measure system-wide power draw from the wall while the card is sat idling at the Windows 10 desktop for 30 minutes. A reading under load comes from running the 3DMark Fire Strike Ultra stress test for 30 minutes.

At first glance, I couldn't quite believe the power draw when using the OC BIOS – but after triple-checking, these are the correct figures, with total system power draw matching that of the RTX 2080 Ti. Clearly, ASRock pushing the clock speed as high as they did has a very detrimental effect on power draw, resulting in significantly worse efficiency for this Navi card.

Again, the Silent BIOS is much improved, with a 50W reduction in power draw versus the OC BIOS. This means the Silent BIOS barely pulls more power than the reference card.

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