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Sapphire Radeon RX 5700 XT Pulse Review – Navi with certain vibrations

Sapphire's first Navi card is with the Pulse actually the entry model, if one follows the previous nomenclature of the manufacturer. This also entails compromises and today we will sound out which and what this means for the customer.

Power consumption and loads

Let us first consider the power consumption in various load conditions from idle to absolute maximum as an average value over a longer measurement period. The two BIOS modes are interesting here, because for a total performance difference of up to 6 percent, up to 10 percent more electrical power is required. Here Sapphire acted better than Powercolor, because they didn’t use the absolute maximum of power draw.

The temperature-dependent voltage curve is also interesting, because we see that the firmware activates the limiter at exactly 1.2 volts, although not as strongly as Powercolor on the Red Devil:

The load balancing on the rails is perfect, because the maximum 5.5 ampere of the mainboard slot is never exceeded in normal usage and with the OC:

Power supply rating and peak loads/currents

As I already proved in detail in my basic article “The fight of graphics card against power supply – power consumption and load peaks demystified”, there are also short-term higher loads in the millisecond range, which can already lead to inexplicable shutdowns in unfavorably designed or not appropriately equipped power supplies. The TBP (Typical Board Power) measured by the graphics card manufacturer or the reviewers alone does not really help here for a stable design of the system.

Peaks with intervals between 1 and 10 ms can lead to shutdowns with very fast reacting protective circuits (OPP, OCP), especially with multi-rail power supplies, even though the average power consumption is still within the standard. For this card I would therefore calculate with almost 300 watts for the graphics card as such, in order to have sufficient reserves in case of emergency. A short excerpt with higher resolution now shows us the 20 ms intervals, how I let them run automatically to determine the value:

Detailed analysis of average power consumption and flowing currents

As usual, I now also put the power consumption and the flowing currents aside as detailed graphics of my oscillograph measurements. A service that hardly anyone else offers and that shows how the cards tick in detail:

Normal-BIOS:

Silent-BIOS:

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Igor Wallossek

Editor-in-chief and name-giver of igor'sLAB as the content successor of Tom's Hardware Germany, whose license was returned in June 2019 in order to better meet the qualitative demands of web content and challenges of new media such as YouTube with its own channel.

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