Power consumption
Considering power consumption, it should be noted that once we have a more complete picture, we can finally see the advantage of using RDNA architecture and 7nm technological process in AMD models. The direct comparison between competitors is in favor of the Navi 10, although overall the difference is not that big. Still, the Radeon RX 5600 XT and Radeon RX 5700 show better performance per watt, even considering the whole system compared to the GeForce RTX 2060/2060 Super. With the Radeon RX 5700 XT, we can already see that the chip is pushed beyond the optimum voltage and frequency curve, and despite its lower power consumption than the GeForce RTX 2070 Super / 2080, it also lags behind in performance. In fact, this is true only for the reference card, as the Asrock Challenger D, turns out to be 30 watts more power hungry, which brings it even beyond the two Nvidia models without causing a significant increase in performance. The reason probably being the slight factory overclock.
Finally, the Radeon VII consumes more than 50 watts more than the Asrock RX 5700 XT Challenger, but offers the same performance. And 80 watts more than the reference model. A clearer demonstration of the huge leap forward made by AMD with RDNA can hardly be imagined, keeping in mind that both chips are manufactured on the same 7 nm. production process.
As far as temperatures are concerned, in addition to consumption, the cooling system also matters. Of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 FE, AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT ref. and the AMD Radeon VII did not stop their fans in idle mode and logically achieved the best results in this case. As for the rest, you can easily see the performance of the cooling systems according to their temperature without load. As well as how this translates in temperature when real work is encountered. The only thing to note here is, that Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5600 XT with the new OC firmware gets rather hot, but that is because it keeps it fans in a really low RPM mode. So with a bit of tweaking you can easily get the temps a lot lower.
