High Temps on GPU and CPU at High FPS

[KWAiRT]

Started playing the other day and I had my frame limiter in the Nvidia control panel set to 143. The GPU was hitting 72c and the CPU spiking at 77c with Quiet cooling and low pump usage. CPU is not overclocked and is an 8086K that can clock to 5GH.

After turning the fans on the Corsair H115i Pro up to Balanced and locking the FPS to 120 I was only spiking at 72 and oddly enough only when the AI was active in this single player session. I put a custom fan curve on the EVGA 1080ti FTW 11GB too and was able to keep the temps under 69c.

I think most users will realize that this game does indeed run hot. You really want to make sure your cooling is up to par for this title especially during summer months. While the game runs amazingly good for me on this update she runs hot. My save is relatively sparse and in no way comes even close to realizing the potential of this game. That means more heat and more CPU usage further into this save and it really has me worried as I don't really have much built. On the other hand the FPS will drop as I progress and expand the map so maybe it will balance itself out.

Hoping the devs can keep and eye on temps over the summer and see if maybe there is a threading issue or if something can be done to bring them down a bit. One quick google of Satisfactory and temps will give you an idea how many people are worried about it. Great game though!

[Little Strawberry]

Keep in mind that Nvidia GPUs boost their clock until they reach 82°c. They're designed to operate in a window where they're skirting the thermal throttle limit. If you keep attempting to cool it below 70°c, then the card will continue boosting above its specs -- because it can.

Similiar to your 8086K ( albeit CPUs don't go above specs ). You're a good chunk away from ever thermal throttling, which causes the CPU to always boost to 5GHz under load and thus introduce more heat, since your cooling can handle it.

There are two solutions to this. Either you stop worrying about it and use your hardware to what it was designed for, or you set the thermal throttle limits lower and intentionally gimp yourself in favor of running cooler. For GPUs you can use MSI Afterburner, which has a super easy slider to simply set it to 70°c in your case[i.imgur.com], which means the card will never go above 70°c. For CPUs you simply go into your BIOS and change the max core voltage to something lower. Use cinebench before and after to see the effect.

[Lil Puppy]

You don't have to worry, those temps are WAY under your limits and perfectly stable.
Your GPU throttling limit is 92c.
Your CPU throttling limit is 100c but try to keep it under 85c for longevity.

You don't have to worry about it. Those are NOT high temperatures, they're low average temperatures.

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The important question here: Do you actually have a 140 Hz monitor? And if so, what resolution is it?

[KWAiRT]

Im using an ASUS 240Hz TN GSYNC Panel @ 1080p

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Originally posted by Talos:

Im using an ASUS 240Hz TN GSYNC Panel @ 1080p

Then you should be accustomed to and used to high gpu temps. Your video card is going to be running at 100% load in every game you play including this game. There isn't a video card that exists that can push 240 FPS in a game without screaming at maximum load all the time.

[KWAiRT]

Just because you have a 240 Hz panel does not mean you run it maxed in every game

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Originally posted by Talos:

Just because you have a 240 Hz panel does not mean you run it maxed in every game

Even 120 FPS is asking too much of your 1080 Ti in most games. I have a 1080 Ti too and I'm only using a 80hz panel because I know it's no where near fast enough to push a 120hz panel, let alone a 240 one.

You've created your own issue by trying to ask your video card to push more frames than it could possibly handle in the first place.

All of that aside though modern video cards are designed to run up to 100c before they will completely shut off and crash and they'll just slow down if they run warm. If you're still seeing < 90c then don't even worry at all. 77C - 85C is completely normal for an air cooled 1080 Ti that's running pegged at 100% usage all the time.

[KWAiRT]

Originally posted by Aquafawks:

Originally posted by Talos:

Just because you have a 240 Hz panel does not mean you run it maxed in every game

Even 120 FPS is asking too much of your 1080 Ti in most games. I have a 1080 Ti too and I'm only using a 80hz panel because I know it's no where near fast enough to push a 120hz panel, let alone a 240 one.

You've created your own issue by trying to ask your video card to push more frames than it could possibly handle in the first place.

All of that aside though modern video cards are designed to run up to 100c before they will completely shut off and crash and they'll just slow down if they run warm. If you're still seeing < 90c then don't even worry at all. 77C - 85C is completely normal for an air cooled 1080 Ti that's running pegged at 100% usage all the time.

I can run most games well over 120 if I wanted to. Overwatch and a Warframe both crank out 240 FPS in most situations but that is not the point. If you even read the thread you would see we are talking about heat issue vs performance not actual performance issues. Please try to stay on topic. This is how stuff gets optimized and fixed. There is no performance issue here just higher than average temps for said performance levels.

This could be do to a high usage of AVX instructions or a plethora of other reasons in how they use the CPU and GPU with Unreal Engine. It could also be a threading issue on the CPU and an entirely different one on the GPU that pushes temps up above normal levels for certain usage. I am also running the game on Ultra so it's utilizing some pretty high end visuals but perhaps at a cost.

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Originally posted by Talos:

Originally posted by Aquafawks:

Even 120 FPS is asking too much of your 1080 Ti in most games. I have a 1080 Ti too and I'm only using a 80hz panel because I know it's no where near fast enough to push a 120hz panel, let alone a 240 one.

You've created your own issue by trying to ask your video card to push more frames than it could possibly handle in the first place.

All of that aside though modern video cards are designed to run up to 100c before they will completely shut off and crash and they'll just slow down if they run warm. If you're still seeing < 90c then don't even worry at all. 77C - 85C is completely normal for an air cooled 1080 Ti that's running pegged at 100% usage all the time.

I can run most games well over 120 if I wanted to. Overwatch and a Warframe both crank out 240 FPS in most situations but that is not the point. If you even read the thread you would see we are talking about heat issue vs performance not actual performance issues. Please try to stay on topic. This is how stuff gets optimized and fixed. There is no performance issue here just higher than average temps for said performance levels.

This could be do to a high usage of AVX instructions or a plethora of other reasons in how they use the CPU and GPU with Unreal Engine. It could also be a threading issue on the CPU and an entirely different one on the GPU that pushes temps up above normal levels for certain usage. I am also running the game on Ultra so it's utilizing some pretty high end visuals but perhaps at a cost.

I am staying on topic. You have not yet commented in this thread about your gpu utilization. Are you seeing 100% GPU utilization on your 1080 Ti trying to push 120 FPS in this game?

Did you actually read what all 3 of us in this thread wrote for you? (Me, Lil Puppy, and Little Strawberry). 77c on your video card is not "Running hot" at all. That's normal for your video card and not even remotely anything you should even be concerned about. Anything in the 60c <-> 85c range is completely normal for an air cooled GTX 1080 Ti.

[Bobucles]

The days of SWAT teams performing door breaches with AMD shape charges are long gone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSALep8QZ84
Any modern CPU or GPU has a huge amount of thermal control hardware in it. Getting up to 70C or 80C is the goal, and staying under 100C is for safety. Just look into overclocking, those same tricks can be used on underclocking to save power.

[KWAiRT]

Originally posted by Aquafawks:

Originally posted by Talos:

I can run most games well over 120 if I wanted to. Overwatch and a Warframe both crank out 240 FPS in most situations but that is not the point. If you even read the thread you would see we are talking about heat issue vs performance not actual performance issues. Please try to stay on topic. This is how stuff gets optimized and fixed. There is no performance issue here just higher than average temps for said performance levels.

This could be do to a high usage of AVX instructions or a plethora of other reasons in how they use the CPU and GPU with Unreal Engine. It could also be a threading issue on the CPU and an entirely different one on the GPU that pushes temps up above normal levels for certain usage. I am also running the game on Ultra so it's utilizing some pretty high end visuals but perhaps at a cost.

I am staying on topic. You have not yet commented in this thread about your gpu utilization. Are you seeing 100% GPU utilization on your 1080 Ti trying to push 120 FPS in this game?

Did you actually read what all 3 of us in this thread wrote for you? (Me, Lil Puppy, and Little Strawberry). 77c on your video card is not "Running hot" at all. That's normal for your video card and not even remotely anything you should even be concerned about. Anything in the 60c <-> 85c range is completely normal for an air cooled GTX 1080 Ti.

I never said the GPU was pegged at 100 or the CPU. I said for the performance levels I'm seeing in the game are running hardware hot. You can also google the issue and see across a wide spectrum of hardware this seems to be a common issue that several people have noticed. Most of them by hitting thermal shutdown levels. I am monitoring the heat though so I can see what the engine and software is doing at any given time with said frames per second and Satisfactory runs hot on the GPU and CPU. That is all i'm saying. You can debate GSYNC and different refresh rates all day if you want or thermal shutdown on different silicon it's not the point.

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Originally posted by Talos:

I never said the GPU was pegged at 100 or the CPU. I said for the performance levels I'm seeing in the game are running hardware hot. You can also google the issue and see across a wide spectrum of hardware this seems to be a common issue that several people have noticed. Most of them by hitting thermal shutdown levels. I am monitoring the heat though so I can see what the engine and software is doing at any given time with said frames per second and Satisfactory runs hot on the GPU and CPU. That is all i'm saying. You can debate GSYNC and different refresh rates all day if you want or thermal shutdown on different silicon it's not the point.

No one is arguing anything. I'm stating facts: Your cart is NOT RUNNING HOT, you need to understand that and stop thinking that. You're no where near thermal shutdown for your card, that's 95c. You're 100% perfectly and completely normal and everything is normal for your card.