GPU temp, hot spot?

[BUDFORCE]

Hi guys,

Just wanted to look at the temps of the 3070 I got from OCUK on Fridays deal.

What does hot spot mean?

I am not surprised its running warm today, its like 30c ambient temperature in there room today.

 

[BUDFORCE]

Ok thanks.

I'm not worried at all, seems to be working perfectly I'm very happy with it. Good day to test it today as it's just tipping into 31c in here which is about as hot as it will ever get in this room.

 

[BUDFORCE]

GPU-Z is your friend, set it to log the sensor output and game away.
get an app called Generic Log Viewer to view the log in graph form.

Apart from being able to monitor the clock speed, temps etc over a longer period of time, there's a flag called Perfcap Reason which will tell you, if the card is throttling and why.

Here's an example that I sent to someone over the weekend. In Green is a well set up card, steady, high clock speed, no throttle triggers
in Red is a badly set up card, constantly bouncing between voltage, temperature and power limits.



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16 is ideal
8 is voltage limited
2 is temperature limited
1 is power limited
4 is probably the worst since that is "the core is not stable at this speed at this voltage" and you're likely to have crashes.

As you can see above, 13 is quite common on this trace...that basically means that it's throttling for a number of reasons , unstable, power and voltage

Thanks for that.

I guess the solid green bit means it is running well? That was testing out PUBG 1440p, 144hz almost max settings, I dont put the AA all the way up at 1440p I dont think its necessary. The blue parts towards the start was launching the game/loading the map etc, once in the game all solid green.