RDR2 and GPU Heat

[Pale Fire]

RDR2 runs hotter for my GPU than nearly all of my other games, including BF 5 and I'm curious as to whether anyone else experiences this. I've got an RTX 2080 with the single fans and rear heat vent which works great on most games. CPU heat is fine and in acceptable ranges (I7-8700).

I can run the game fine on Ultra settings but the 2080 hits the mid 80s celcius on heat. This is still lower than the max heat for the card but the fans/vent are ridiculously loud.

I've reduced the framerate max to 60 and moved the settings down to High which has helped a little (3-4 degrees). This typically drops it low enough to prevent the vents from blowing, the primary source of noise.

Any ideas on further reducing the GPU heat for this game?

[Duranu Lithdel]

clean the GPU

[Gin]

and maybe apply a better thermal paste

[Cliff.uckingBooth]

Hmm Im just downloading my copy and I wonder how good with temperature I will get. Then again I have 2 fans on graphic card and another 7 around the pc so I hope I will be fine :)

[Pale Fire]

Originally posted by Duranu Lithdel:

clean the GPU

So, pop it out and remove the case around the video card? I keep the inside of my computer and the fans/vents dust free. Just looking for clarification.

[Pale Fire]

Originally posted by Gin:

and maybe apply a better thermal paste

Thanks. Thought of this too. I'm sort of looking for a solution a little less invasive, but it's on my list.

[Settra The Imperishable]

Case airflow checked? do you have balanced amount of intake and exhaust fans?

[Duranu Lithdel]

Originally posted by Palefire:

Originally posted by Duranu Lithdel:

clean the GPU

So, pop it out and remove the case around the video card? I keep the inside of my computer and the fans/vents dust free. Just looking for clarification.

Just because the case has filters doesn't mean it stops everything. A lot of times the problem people will run into is the heat sink looks clean and pristine, but they take the cover off and find out a wall of lint has built up at the front of the heat sink closest to the fan rendering the fan useless, this happens more on Blower fans that sit on one side of the card and blow air sideways through the entire card as opposed to axial cards that blow straight down (or Up depending on card orientation) onto the heatsink

I can't find pictures of dirty heatsinks on google surprisingly to provide good examples but this is best I can do for a Blower model card

https://imgur.com/a/TWy0Tf1

This is obviously in a laptop but it is the same principle as a blower fan, it blows from the side into a heatsink, but this guy had a wall of lint build up between the fan and heatsink that crippled his cooling potential

Im assuming you are using a blower 2080 if it only has 1 fan on it, you can look up axial vs blower if you arent sure. but yea, you need to power down, unplug your GPUs power, carefully take the cover off the gpu taking note of where each screw went, and check the status of your heatsink

[Pale Fire]

Originally posted by Intensa Emozione:

Case airflow checked? do you have balanced amount of intake and exhaust fans?

Small case. Limited airflow, which is why the rear heat vent is included on the card. Doesn't seem to be an issue with nearly all of my other games.

[Pale Fire]

Originally posted by Duranu Lithdel:

Originally posted by Palefire:

So, pop it out and remove the case around the video card? I keep the inside of my computer and the fans/vents dust free. Just looking for clarification.

Just because the case has filters doesn't mean it stops everything. A lot of times the problem people will run into is the heat sink looks clean and pristine, but they take the cover off and find out a wall of lint has built up at the front of the heat sink closest to the fan rendering the fan useless, this happens more on Blower fans that sit on one side of the card and blow air sideways through the entire card as opposed to axial cards that blow straight down (or Up depending on card orientation) onto the heatsink

I can't find pictures of dirty heatsinks on google surprisingly to provide good examples but this is best I can do for a Blower model card

https://imgur.com/a/TWy0Tf1

This is obviously in a laptop but it is the same principle as a blower fan, it blows from the side into a heatsink, but this guy had a wall of lint build up between the fan and heatsink that crippled his cooling potential

Im assuming you are using a blower 2080 if it only has 1 fan on it, you can look up axial vs blower if you arent sure. but yea, you need to power down, unplug your GPUs power, carefully take the cover off the gpu taking note of where each screw went, and check the status of your heatsink

This is very helpful. Thanks. I'll look into this.

[Duranu Lithdel]

Originally posted by Palefire:

Originally posted by Duranu Lithdel:

Just because the case has filters doesn't mean it stops everything. A lot of times the problem people will run into is the heat sink looks clean and pristine, but they take the cover off and find out a wall of lint has built up at the front of the heat sink closest to the fan rendering the fan useless, this happens more on Blower fans that sit on one side of the card and blow air sideways through the entire card as opposed to axial cards that blow straight down (or Up depending on card orientation) onto the heatsink

I can't find pictures of dirty heatsinks on google surprisingly to provide good examples but this is best I can do for a Blower model card

https://imgur.com/a/TWy0Tf1

This is obviously in a laptop but it is the same principle as a blower fan, it blows from the side into a heatsink, but this guy had a wall of lint build up between the fan and heatsink that crippled his cooling potential

Im assuming you are using a blower 2080 if it only has 1 fan on it, you can look up axial vs blower if you arent sure. but yea, you need to power down, unplug your GPUs power, carefully take the cover off the gpu taking note of where each screw went, and check the status of your heatsink

This is very helpful. Thanks. I'll look into this.

no problem, curious to hear back how dirty the heatsink and fan might be under that cover

[Trump G.O.A.T-POTUS]

One fan likely isnt enough.

[Settra The Imperishable]

Originally posted by Palefire:

Originally posted by Intensa Emozione:

Case airflow checked? do you have balanced amount of intake and exhaust fans?

Small case. Limited airflow, which is why the rear heat vent is included on the card. Doesn't seem to be an issue with nearly all of my other games.

Yeah, Airflow is very important these days, especially on blower GPU's.
They wont cool off your GPU if its constantly sucking in hot air.
you might have to upgrade your case if nothing else helps.
which is actually one of the cheaper "upgrades" to do for PC!

[fester1]

Just bough an RTX 2060 and it also runs at around 80C.

As a test I took the case side cover off and ran a small fan directly onto the GPU and the temperature dropped to around 76C.


Ran TW3 with the cover on and it settled at around 75C on max settings.

[Eminem]

Blow out the fans on the gpu, probably got lots of dust buildup.. Add more external fans on your case.

If you got a 2080, you can surely afford a full tower and move all your components to it. Very easy to do

[Jaralol]

Terrible airflow and Dusty gpu