Let’s now get to the consequences of the graphics card warming. Of course I’m interested in the noise level of what is now emitted as complex fan noise. Whether closed or not, the temperature curves look very similar. The card in the closed construction still acts very, very sovereign, whereby the speeds of up to 1350 rpm remain really bearable. Amazing, but true.
By the way, the curve shows the one tiny bit faster rotating fan above the CPU and the one at the back. I have experimented a bit and the only slightly lower speeds are chosen in such a way that no modulation phenomena can occur when intermodulation suddenly produces audible mixed products that remind you of the oscillating noise of the engines of propeller-driven machines. I could not find any other reason. But that’s pretty smart.
Let us now come to the noise level and the sound character. With approx. 32.5 dB at Witcher 3 in UHD and a power consumption of a good 205 Watts I measure a pleasingly low value, which one can hardly notice consciously and which is again clearly below the already quiet RTX 3070 FE. The sound characteristic mixes a noise with the measurable engine noise, which, however, in addition to the low-frequency peaks, is very broadband towards the top. The bearing noises produce a kind of slight peak at approx. 64 and 220 Hz. Nevertheless, you can live with it well, because it remains very quiet overall. In the high frequency range we still see the voltage transformer peaks. The converters are not loud, but you can hear the coils hum more because of the quiet fans.
But I do not want to conceal the extreme case. If you use Furmark or heavy GPGPU scenarios, where the memory and the voltage converters are also more demanding, then with full use of the possible power limit it’s plenty of 220 watts and the fan speeds go slightly above 1500 rpm and the noise level is then around 33.8 dB(A). However, I have not been able to do this for games. Seen in this light, the world is still completely in order even when riding at full throttle.
- 1 - Einführung und Testsystem
- 2 - Teardown, Platinenanalyse und Kühler
- 3 - Gaming Performance Full-HD
- 4 - Gaming Performance WQHD
- 5 - Detailauswertungen alle Spiele
- 6 - Workstation: CAD
- 7 - Studio: Rendering
- 8 - Studio: Video- und Bildbearbeitung
- 9 - Leistungsaufnahme und Effizienz der Einzelspiele
- 10 - Leistungsaufnahme: Übersicht & Netzteil-Empfehlung
- 11 - Temperaturen und Infrarot-Tests
- 12 - Geräuschemission / Noise
- 13 - NVIDIA Broadcast - Mehr als nur eine Spielerei?
- 14 - Zusammenfassung. Features und Fazit
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