Sapphire RX 6600 XT Pulse Review

1. Introduction2. Sapphire RX 6600 XT Pulse3. Testing Methodology4. 3DMark Fire Strike & Time Spy5. 3DMark DirectX Raytracing6. 1080p Game Benchmarks7. Clock Speed8. GPU Temperatures9. Acoustics10. Noise-Normalised Temperatures11. Power Consumption12. Overclocking13. Closing Thoughts14. View All Pages

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.

Moving onto thermal performance, it's not a surprise to see the Sapphire Pulse running hotter than the Gaming OC Pro. It is, after all, a smaller and lighter card, with three fewer heatpipes used as well. Still, the peak GPU temperature of 72C is very respectable and the hot spot temperature of 92C is well within AMD's limits.

In fact, we can see the delta between the GPU and hot spot temperatures is lower for the Pulse (20C) versus the Gaming OC Pro (27C), which could be a result of Sapphire using a flat copper baseplate, as opposed to Gigabyte's direct heatpipe contact approach.

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