What temperature should my GPU have when playing a game?

[Zeno]

What temperature should my GPU have when playing a game?

And can I lower the temperature by lowering graphic settings?

[Plaid]

It depends on the card, really, as they all have varying idle and load temps.
I try to keep mine below 60 on load.

Lowering graphics settings can ease the load on the card, and therefore lower the temperature. also using v-sync can help immensely if your card is rendering too many frames per second (or, more than your monitor can display). I've seen cards get super hot, just because they were allowed to render any amount of frames the card could push.

I would also recommend a program that gives you control over your GPU fan speeds, such as MSI Afterburner, if you aren't using one already. (if you aren't, that should be the first thing you do - you want your fans to ramp up as the temps increase)

[jkl2k2]

Around 80-90*C is the danger zone. Anything below that should be fine.

[Zeno]

Plaid eredeti hozzászólása:

It depends on the card, really, as they all have varying idle and load temps.
I try to keep mine below 60 on load.

Lowering graphics settings can ease the load on the card, and therefore lower the temperature. also using v-sync can help immensely if your card is rendering too many frames per second (or, more than your monitor can display). I've seen cards get super hot, just because they were allowed to render any amount of frames the card could push.

I would also recommend a program that gives you control over your GPU fan speeds, such as MSI Afterburner, if you aren't using one already. (if you aren't, that should be the first thing you do - you want your fans to ramp up as the temps increase)

I do have control centers with my laptop, I can increase the fan speed etc. However, running the fan on maximum the whole time doesn't seem right.

So you say activating V-sync helps ?

[Ailes]

Some benchmarks brought mine (GTX 980 Ti) up to 79 for a brief time. I never messed with the fans built on the card either physically or software-sided. Its fans are idle by default and start automatically at a certain load. I try to enable VSynch where I can (even when playing low graphics games, because some are apparently running at unnecessarily high FPS) and when it doesn't result in too much input lag which can be pretty annoying in shooters (Payday 2). I do keep tabs on the temperatures with OpenHardwareMonitor.

[Zeno]

Bahuemac eredeti hozzászólása:

Some benchmarks brought mine (GTX 980 Ti) up to 79 for a brief time. I never messed with the fans built on the card either physically or software-sided. Its fans are idle by default and start automatically at a certain load. I try to enable VSynch where I can and when it doesn't result in too much input lag which can be pretty annoying in shooters (Payday 2).

The only shoter I had issues with my fps and overheat was Verdun, as soon as I picked V-sync, my heat went from 90 C down to 40.

It's all a mattter of configuration I believe. Most players do not play all maxed out because of that reason, and the majority of games looks absolutely great even on medium settings.

However, I prefer to play on ultra, but with low shadow quality and if possible with V-sync. Mostly for the sake of my laptop, it simply doesn't break that quick if you don't let it work on 100% all the time.

[Plaid]

∞Infinity∞ eredeti hozzászólása:

Plaid eredeti hozzászólása:

It depends on the card, really, as they all have varying idle and load temps.
I try to keep mine below 60 on load.

Lowering graphics settings can ease the load on the card, and therefore lower the temperature. also using v-sync can help immensely if your card is rendering too many frames per second (or, more than your monitor can display). I've seen cards get super hot, just because they were allowed to render any amount of frames the card could push.

I would also recommend a program that gives you control over your GPU fan speeds, such as MSI Afterburner, if you aren't using one already. (if you aren't, that should be the first thing you do - you want your fans to ramp up as the temps increase)

I do have control centers with my laptop, I can increase the fan speed etc. However, running the fan on maximum the whole time doesn't seem right.

So you say activating V-sync helps ?

I wouldn't let the fans go 100% unless you reach a set max temp (they are too loud).
I set mine to go full speed at around 70 degrees, iirc. It's also a sound cue that things are getting pretty warm in there :)
But I also have the fans set on a linear ramp with my temps, so as the temps rise the fan speed increases.

Yes, v-sync can help if you are rendering too many frames. Alternatively use a frame rate limiter.

[Ailes]

If you're having an NVIDIA card you can specify VSynch settings for individual programs. There are numerous variations of VSynch in the NVIDIA control panel (not the same as GeForce Experience, it's what you always have with you) like "adaptive", "fast" or "half" (explanations are in the control panel), some of which may give you the advantages of VSynch (no tearing, lower temperatures) without or with less of its downsides (input lag). At any rate it seems to allow VSynching games that don't have any direct VSynch options. Badly programmed low graphics games seem to be able to run at ludicrous amounts of FPS (like, 1000) if you let them run unchecked. So even if you play some seemingly simple 2D pixel game I would have OpenHardwareMonitor or something similar running in the background and peer at the temperatures once in a while.

[MollyMo]

Anything over 80C is dangerous. Anything in the 70s will limit the gpu's lifespan. Mid 60s and lower are decent temps.

[Ailes]

∞Infinity∞ eredeti hozzászólása:

It's all a mattter of configuration I believe. Most players do not play all maxed out because of that reason, and the majority of games looks absolutely great even on medium settings.

However, I prefer to play on ultra, but with low shadow quality and if possible with V-sync. Mostly for the sake of my laptop, it simply doesn't break that quick if you don't let it work on 100% all the time.

Well if you buy a rig with the very intention to have games run at all/better then you want to have the best possible graphics settings too. I do. There are some things I disable because they annoy the hell out of me but otherwise I try to run ultra. Depth of Field is something I dislike a lot because it often makes no sense. Tere were some games in which distant details were blurred most of the time thanks to it. I, as a player, may miss these details, and as a developer I would be asking why put any effort into modelling and texturing such distant objects to begin with then? You would also be a fool to enable such things in competitive multiplayer shooters, it's what I turn off the first moment I play Rising Storm or the likes including Motion Blur.

[Zeno]

Bahuemac eredeti hozzászólása:

∞Infinity∞ eredeti hozzászólása:

It's all a mattter of configuration I believe. Most players do not play all maxed out because of that reason, and the majority of games looks absolutely great even on medium settings.

However, I prefer to play on ultra, but with low shadow quality and if possible with V-sync. Mostly for the sake of my laptop, it simply doesn't break that quick if you don't let it work on 100% all the time.

Well if you buy a rig with the very intention to have games run at all/better then you want to have the best possible graphics settings too. I do. There are some things I disable because they annoy the hell out of me but otherwise I try to run ultra. Depth of field is something I dislike a lot because it often makes no sense. Tere were some games in which distant details were blurred most of the time thanks to it. I, as a player, may miss these details, and as a developer I would be asking why put any effort into modelling and texturing such distant objects to begin with then? You would also be a fool to enable such things in competitive multiplayer shooters, it's what I turn off the first moment I play Rising Storm or the likes including Motion Blur.

I usually turn everything off that is unecessary, as you've already mentioned.

I have a GeForce GTX 1080, so a pretty strong GPU. However, I still want to keep my laptop for a while, so I try to not challenge it more than necessary, as long as the game looks amazing, I am fine.

[Ailes]

Wow lol googling for GPU temperatures is fun, some people have theirs running at apparently 110 Celsius and still say it's alright. :/

[ErickaUnlimited]

Bahuemac eredeti hozzászólása:

Wow lol googling for GPU temperatures is fun, some people have theirs running at apparently 110 Celsius and still say it's alright. :/

That's very much not alright.

[Plaid]

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Bahuemac eredeti hozzászólása:

Wow lol googling for GPU temperatures is fun, some people have theirs running at apparently 110 Celsius and still say it's alright. :/

That's very much not alright.

It's alright for cooking steak and eggs.

[Zeno]

Bahuemac eredeti hozzászólása:

Wow lol googling for GPU temperatures is fun, some people have theirs running at apparently 110 Celsius and still say it's alright. :/

My control center tells me that everything up to 70 is completely fine and everything up to 80 C is just fine.

It get's dangerous when it raises above the 80 C.


110 C? How is this even possible...

[ErickaUnlimited]

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💔💔ErickaUnlimited💔💔 eredeti hozzászólása:

That's very much not alright.

It's alright for cooking steak and eggs.

Genius!

Our PCs can double as a cooking source so we never have to leave the chair.