Palit RTX 5090 GameRock Review

1. Introduction2. Meet the Palit RTX 5090 GameRock3. Testing Methodology4. Game Benchmarks5. Clock Speed6. GPU Temperatures7. Acoustics8. Noise-Normalised Temperatures9. Power Draw and Efficiency10. Overclocking11. Closing Thoughts12. View All Pages

We take our noise measurements with the sound meter positioned 1 foot from the graphics card. I measured the noise floor to be 32 dBA, thus anything above this level can be attributed to the graphics cards. The power supply is passive for the entire power output range we tested all graphics cards in, while all CPU and system fans were disabled. A reading under load comes from running Cyberpunk 2077 for 30 minutes.

Things are complicated by the fact that the GameRock isn't particularly quiet, either. For starters, there's very little difference between the Performance and Silent modes – the former runs the fans at 1810rpm, while the latter only drops that to 1745rpm, so resulting in only a slight drop in noise levels. Even then, it's still hitting 39dBa in the Silent mode, which is the same noise output we recorded from the FE. MSI's Silent mode, for instance, dropped noise down to 33dBa, so we're not really getting any noise improvements from the GameRock.

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