GPU Power Spikes

[Kane U. Digget]

While playing with an RTX card, I experienced occasional power spikes that showed momentary temperature spikes, looking at HWiNFO. The game was steadily using about 250-300W at 51-56 degrees, but then would jump up to 400W and 65-67 degrees for a few seconds. This would not be of concern if it weren't for how quickly it was spiking up and down and I have not seen any other game do this. I also have a global Nvidia framerate cap of 120fps, so unless the game was overriding that, I cannot understand why the power and temperature were spiking so high, but at this time there does not seem to have been any damage to my card. Has anyone else seen this?

[shmаkly21]

dunno bout that, but instead i got my poor cpu heating to 70 degrees
ryzen 5 5600x btw
videocard was probably fine, but damn, game hot

[Mundermoro]

Yeah I have a 3070 ti and I get an occasional dip into the low 50s at the Lowest settings lol

[Hades Dragon]

I think this power spike cause my game to crash

[Kane U. Digget]

Originally posted by Lt. Shootfirst:

dunno bout that, but instead i got my poor cpu heating to 70 degrees
ryzen 5 5600x btw
videocard was probably fine, but damn, game hot

CPU was pretty steady hot as well, but the GPU situation gives me New World frying 3090 vibes.

Originally posted by Mundermoro:

Yeah I have a 3070 ti and I get an occasional dip into the low 50s at the Lowest settings lol

Did you see higher power/temperature spikes than normal?