Power & Temperatures
Now I mentioned at the start that we have a Duo OC model from Colorful. With the RTX 5050 there is no “reference model” or Founders card, so instead, NVIDIA are relying on their AIB partners to bring cards to market and of course you’ll be expected to see MSRP cards, along with slightly more premium models coming in with a slightly higher price point, generally $20 or so more.
This model being the Duo and the fact that Colorful have a triple-fan version too, this card is their MSRP offering, so if retailers play ball, you’d be expected to see this at the $249 price tag that it’s supposed to be.
That aside, we obviously want to see how things do under a sustained level of load. It’s here where under an hour-long loop of F1 24 on the max settings, we found temperatures remained under control. Both the GPU and memory temperatures remained pretty consistent, sitting around 61 degrees on both with a fan speed at a very reasonable 1354 RPM. While I’m under no illusion that the triple-fan version would perform even better, I don’t think anyone would be upset by those numbers and how quiet the operation would be. Power-wise, the card used just under 130 Watts of power, showing that the card is quite efficient in the grand scheme of things and for the most part during a long session, sat under the 130 W TDP of the GPU core. In terms of clock speeds, the CPU clock hovered around the 2925MHz mark for the most part, while the memory consistently stayed at its rated 2500MHz or 20 Gbps Effective speed.
