Should I be concerened if my GTX 1080 is hitting 69 degrees on the witcher 3?

[Proxidist]

I have it on ultra, idk if that heat is bad or not..

[Reaper]

NVIDIA have built in limiters. Unless you manually disabled the safety, you can't run it hard enough to damage it. For future reference, as long as you're under 80C, you're fine. IIRC, the limiter kicks in at 83C for the 10xx series

[ezwip]

It's below average in both celcius and farenheit.

[Monk]

Not at all, pascal hits its max boost below 63 degrees but the step down is minor, the big one hits at around 80, below that it's perfectly fine,mind you, keeping the temps below the first step of 63 mind you is pretty tough under load without water or a fan at max.

[Reaper]

Originally posted by Monk:

Not at all, pascal hits its max boost below 63 degrees but the step down is minor, the big one hits at around 80, below that it's perfectly fine,mind you, keeping the temps below the first step of 63 mind you is pretty tough under load without water or a fan at max.

don't know where you got that there's a drop past 63. I've graphed my card all the way up to 80c and never seen a drop anywhere before.

[Monk]

The very max potential boost clock is found sub 63 on pascal cards, above that it will drop 10-20 MHz usually, once the card closes on 80 it s boost clock will drop again, if it bits 83 it will drop to keep its temps in check.
If you see it or not will likely be affected by the individual card and it's clocks.
I've seen it on all 7 1080ti's I've owned until I got a pair under water.

Pretty much every in-depth review shows the same effect, even the titan Volta, it's a result of the latest boost mechanic introduced on pascal, wasn't an issue prior to that.

Mind you, if your card isn't at its upper limits, it will be less noticeable, along with it depending g on monitoring software.

[Big Boom Boom]

Originally posted by FeaR_TH3_Reap3R:

Originally posted by Monk:

Not at all, pascal hits its max boost below 63 degrees but the step down is minor, the big one hits at around 80, below that it's perfectly fine,mind you, keeping the temps below the first step of 63 mind you is pretty tough under load without water or a fan at max.

don't know where you got that there's a drop past 63. I've graphed my card all the way up to 80c and never seen a drop anywhere before.

GPU boost 3.0, not thermal throttle. Like every 5C-10C beyond 63C drop your max boost by 12Mhz or something

At the end of days it's the difference of around 50-100Mhz between liquid cool and air cooler, with air boosting 2000-2100 and LC boosting 2050-2150.

[Reaper]

Originally posted by Monk:

The very max potential boost clock is found sub 63 on pascal cards, above that it will drop 10-20 MHz usually, once the card closes on 80 it s boost clock will drop again, if it bits 83 it will drop to keep its temps in check.
If you see it or not will likely be affected by the individual card and it's clocks.
I've seen it on all 7 1080ti's I've owned until I got a pair under water.

Pretty much every in-depth review shows the same effect, even the titan Volta, it's a result of the latest boost mechanic introduced on pascal, wasn't an issue prior to that.

Mind you, if your card isn't at its upper limits, it will be less noticeable, along with it depending g on monitoring software.

Well it also might be due to the fact that I have disabled the thermal limits on my 1060. The way it's set up now, it won't throttle at all until it hits 85c. Thankfully, even with air cooled, it still likes to hover between 70-80c. And I checked my graph. There's fluctuation, but that's expected because no game will be 100% demanding at all times. Even using benchmark software doesn't give a constant result. I think I'm like 150+ over my stock boost clock at this point and the memory clock is far beyond what it used to be

[Monk]

If by disabled thermal limits you mean turned the bar all the way up on afterburner, that's very different to disabling them which will involve custom bios work.
If you want to see what I mean, set up afterburner osd to monitor frequency, blast your fans at 100% and run furmarks fuzzy donut of death, then try it with the fans on low,you'll see a difference in the max frequency, how big varies per model, a good 1060 can get to about 2200MHz but will likely drop a good 50-100 as it hits 83 ish.

Or just lock your frequency at its max boost when idle and see if it maintains it during a stress test loop,as it's very unlikely that it will.

[Reaper]

Originally posted by Monk:

If by disabled thermal limits you mean turned the bar all the way up on afterburner, that's very different to disabling them which will involve custom bios work.
If you want to see what I mean, set up afterburner osd to monitor frequency, blast your fans at 100% and run furmarks fuzzy donut of death, then try it with the fans on low,you'll see a difference in the max frequency, how big varies per model, a good 1060 can get to about 2200MHz but will likely drop a good 50-100 as it hits 83 ish.

Or just lock your frequency at its max boost when idle and see if it maintains it during a stress test loop,as it's very unlikely that it will.

Oddly enough, it landed at 2105 which is normal, but before it even passed 50c, it dropped to 2050 and stayed there until it hit 85c when it decided to cut the clock by another 500.