Temperature and Noise
The XFX Radeon R9 380 4GB Double Dissipation is very silent. I’m using an open test bench so I can hear clearly if a component or graphics card is noisy or not. I don’t have an accurate tool to measure the sound, but I can tell that it’s really silent, even at full load. XFX’s Ghost Thermal 3.0 Technology and Double Dissipation are quite effective.
The fans don’t turn off, even though the graphics card is at its idle state. The lowest temperature I got is around 43° degrees Celsius.
During full load, the XFX R9 380 can reach up to 80° degrees Celsius, while its average temperature hovers around 50° to 60° degrees Celsius. The screenshot you see above is the condition of the graphics card right after the Fire Strike benchmark finished. Also coil whining is not an issue with this graphics card, at least for the sample we got.
Now let’s proceed to the benchmark results on the succeeding pages.
Im getting 80C with 80% fan speed with good airflow in case, is this normal? It gets pretty loud up at 80% fan speed.
During our test, we did reach 80C max. But we just set the fans to auto. If you bump up the fan speed above 60% it will start to get loud. 90% to 100% is unbearably loud already. Try setting it to auto.
All right thanks for the help, I’ll try that out.
You shouldn’t be able to easily hit 80’C without really limiting airflow and holding a constant 100% load… furmark could probably do it. if you think you may have a fan issue or fan failure, we can send replacements free of charge. please let us know. xfxsupport.com
Mark at XFX
That’s right, 80C was the maximum possible temp and the fans were set to auto. The 80 is not constant as well, probably it went 80 at one point. We find the cooler to be very effective and they shouldn’t hit that temp on a normal basis. The temp should be just around 50C to 70C, depending on the environment.