88 Celsius on GPU

[James Stewart]

Hi guys, I've recently been playing some cyberpunk and my gpu temp rises to arround 88 celsius. Is it dangeorous? Will it degrade my gpu over time?

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Which GPU.
If nvidia then yes it's too high

[Electric Cupcake]

That's pretty normal for a graphics intensive game. You can look up what the max temp is for your specific model before it starts automatically throttling.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Originally posted by Electric Cupcake:

That's pretty normal for a graphics intensive game. You can look up what the max temp is for your specific model before it starts automatically throttling.

No it's not. That speaks of bad cooling and default gpu fan curve.

But yes some Radeon GPUs can run hotter compared to NVIDIA

[smokerob79]

its hot regardless of GPU maker.....last time i saw a card at 88c under gaming load the hot spot on the die was 107C!!!!!.....FYI it was a vertical mounted 2080 ti that had all the thermal paste drop to the bottom......

i would start with repasting the GPU and then work on case fans if temps dont drop a lot.....

[Bad 💀 Motha]

I always take apart new GPUs and repaste them from the start.
It's worth doing.

[Guydodge]

to hot IMO set up a fan curve if its nvidia the stock fan curve sucks.it allows the gpu
heat up then attemps to cool it.use afterburner or other software and make a custom
fan curve heres mine.

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[_I_]

<95c is fine, it will throttle before any damage is done

[Midnight Aurais]

ha your worried about a hot gpu meanwhile my old hd 6950 is still alive got it in 2013 and the last few years it was running at 108c it is still alive today and kicking XD

[smokerob79]

Originally posted by _I_:

<95c is fine, it will throttle before any damage is done

never listen to this guy......95c is not even good even for a laptop........

Originally posted by Alice Liddell:

Heat could become dangerous but humidity is the ultimate killer for electronics.

laughs with 10 year old motherboard that has never been any place but in a no AC controlled garage in Florida for its whole life.......humidity does not kill things anymore.......

[_I_]

Originally posted by smokerob79:

Originally posted by _I_:

<95c is fine, it will throttle before any damage is done

never listen to this guy......95c is not even good even for a laptop........

Originally posted by Alice Liddell:

Heat could become dangerous but humidity is the ultimate killer for electronics.

laughs with 10 year old motherboard that has never been any place but in a no AC controlled garage in Florida for its whole life.......humidity does not kill things anymore.......

newer hardware will throttle before temps are high enough to damage them
even 7-8th gen intel or ryzen cpus with no heatsinks at all (only the ihs is enough) they will throttle to <800mhz and run cool enough for whatever is available

does is that mean its 'good' no but as long as the cpu/gpu is not throttling its fine

[r.linder]

Anything below throttle temperature is considered safe by the manufacturer, if you don't want to run near tJ max then you need to improve the cooling situation

Whole point of the throttle temperature is to prevent damage to the CPU by throttling performance to prevent it from reaching it's actual maximum temperature where the CPU/GPU would completely shut off to prevent damage.

[Chaosolous]

I mean, it all depends on the GPU tbh.

My old GTX 1660 Super consistently ran around 88C and it was fine. That's just how it ran.

My RTX 3060 runs around 50C to 71C though.

[Ghost Robertson]

If you don't want to add fans or can't, You can look at what CFM your current fans are and get ones that move more air. (some cooling fans are less than 80 CFM, I personally have ones that go to 107)

[Crashed]

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

I always take apart new GPUs and repaste them from the start.
It's worth doing.

I've never taken apart my 3080, but seeing as it is one of the first batches I probably should at some point maintain it and perhaps re-apply some high quality thermal compound.

[Ghost Robertson]

Originally posted by Crashed:

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

I always take apart new GPUs and repaste them from the start.
It's worth doing.

I've never taken apart my 3080, but seeing as it is one of the first batches I probably should at some point maintain it and perhaps re-apply some high quality thermal compound.

I'd only do something like that if i had lots of money to replace it if something went wrong.

Back in my day it was a little more simple, I replaced a geforce 4 mx440 heat sink with a better heat sink fan, After applying the thermal paste you just pushed the mounts in and connect the fan and you're done.