443W Power Draw and Rising Temps on RTX 4090!

[Milamber]

It's quite a relaxing game, but this thing is drawing a hefty 443W from my RTX 4090, pushing the temperatures up to 83°C with a hot spot reaching 97°C! Typically, even with demanding games, I see temps between 65°C and 72°C, and my hot spot temperature rarely goes above 82°C.

Given all the processing involved, I expected a certain load, but even titles like Silent Hill 2, Space Marines 2, God of War: Ragnarok, and the photo-realistic Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II don’t come close to these temperatures—they actually run more than 10°C cooler in some cases. What could be driving such a temperature spike here?

[Kritter]

good question. at 4k with a resolution scale of 1.5 it barely moves the needle for me on my RTX3070. temps are a fairly constant 66/67, even after many hours on a heavy build and fans don't even spin up past idle. GPU power draw on one of my most intensive builds is around 140W. (Not overclocking or anything).

[Milamber]

I'm not overclocking my system either; I have a 7950X CPU, and everything stays cool in any other game. It was actually the fan noise that tipped me off to the intense heat generated by this particular game. When I launched the NVIDIA overlay through their app, I could see both the temperatures and the power draw. I’ve even capped the FPS at 60, yet the GPU is still drawing an excessive amount of power and running hot.