Power, Noise, Temperature
A lot of top-end cards chew through a similar amount of watts. Sapphire's Fury Nitro is exactly where we'd expect it to be.
That huge cooler is put to good use in taming the GPU's temperatures under load. The in-game reading is bang-on what Sapphire prescribes. The heatsink design means that a reasonable amount of heat escapes back into the chassis and not straight out of the rear, but we imagine anyone considering such a card would have ample circulation in a larger case.
It's not the absolute quietest but neither does it cause a racket. Better still, the noise doesn't rise and fall in pitch like some cards, which although appear to be quiet on the decibel graphs, are annoying to the eardrums. The gentle hum of the fans can be heard over the Noctua CPU cooler, yet the Sapphire Tri-X is a proven solution.
