I will not talk about the performance of the card as I have not tested it thoroughly and there is a lot of information on the Internet about it. What I will focus on is the cooling. First, I should mention that I have the Corsair 5000D, which is a large case with 7x120 fans + be quiet Dark Rock 4 on Ryzen 7 5700G, so there is very good airflow inside the case. The problems I have are:
1. From the start, the card makes excessively loud noise to the point that I wonder if it is defective. In idle, it keeps the fans stopped, but when it starts to heat up, the fan acceleration that Gigabyte has is unacceptably high, resulting in the fans making a terrible noise when they change speed. This is something that cannot be adjusted (I am not talking about the RPMs, I am talking about how quickly it goes from, for example, 500 to 1000 RPM). Lowering the MSI Afterburner to adjust the fan curve, as the Gigabyte software is unacceptable, I noticed that it struggled to maintain a stable clock under load. By default, it was set to 1890 MHz if I am not mistaken, resulting in it trying to reach that while heating up a lot, momentarily increasing the fan speed, and then dropping back to 1840 MHz and starting all over again. All of this made the noise problem even worse. Eventually, I ended up lowering the clock steadily to 1840 MHz under load, losing a very small percentage of performance, but at least now it boosts steadily and operates at significantly lower temperatures, so with a more conservative fan curve, it stays at 65 degrees.
2. The other problem I face is that in idle it is around 40 degrees, and the fan curve of the card is set to start the fans at 40 degrees. This means that in Linux, where I do not have Afterburner and cannot adjust the fan curve, the fans run for half a second, stop for 1, and then start again, which becomes annoying.
3. Finally, no matter what I do with the fan curve and the clock, in-game, if it gets stressed, it starts to sound like an airplane. The only solution I found for this is to limit the FPS to 60 so that it does not get stressed so much. In general, this is not a solution, but since I do not play much anyway and I have a 60 Hz monitor with V-Sync enabled, it has locked me at 60 anyway. But for the games I play, it is not that terrible for me.
Conclusion:
I am not 100% satisfied, although the performance is what I expected. The reason I bought this card is that it had 3 fans, and I thought it would provide better cooling, but I guess I was mistaken. OF COURSE, I should mention that in general reviews I have seen, the card does not seem to have these problems, so I might have just been unlucky in the end. For now, I am keeping it because with the fixes I made, the situation is bearable, but I may attempt some RMA at some point directly with Gigabyte.