Written by Guru3D
We test all cards on dBA levels. Obviously the reference coolers all perform roughly the same. The customized coolers are either louder or softer depending on what they try to achieve.
* So in IDLE mode, you will not hear the card. We measure less than 38 dBA coming from the PC.
* Gaming with an average title not stressing the GPU too much we can hear the fan a little, we measure roughly 40 dBA.
* When we loop 3DMark Vantage for a while the GPU really heats up, as side-effect the fan RPM will go up even higher, the noise-levels are now 42-43 dBA which definitely can be heard, overall these results are okay, really.