Temperatures: What's the difference between CPU and CPU Package?

evo4ever86 · 12 May 2025 at 07:25

Hello all.

I've recently upgraded to a 9800X3D/X870E system and in the Armory Crate dashboard I've noticed there is 'CPU Temperature' and 'CPU Package Temperature'. The CPU Temp is always 10c cooler (averages around 33c) than the CPU Package Temp (averages around 43c), what's the difference between them and which one is the most important? And are my temps good? Help greatly appreciated.

evo4ever86 · 12 May 2025 at 12:45

pastymuncher said:
I could be wrong but I think that one is the highest temp out of all the cores and the other is the average temp across all cores.

Hmm.. I'm a little confused about it.

evo4ever86 · 13 May 2025 at 15:14

pastymuncher said:
Nothing is as simple as it used to be.

You can say that again lol. So is my CPU temp of 33c at idle and my CPU Package temp of 43c at idle any good? Because I remember my 9900K used to run at 28-30c at idle which is quite a bit cooler than my new 9800X3D. The last AMD CPU I owned was an Athlon 64 3500+ all the way back in 2005 so my experience with AMD CPUs is very out dated lmao!

evo4ever86 · 14 May 2025 at 05:10

VortexA1 said:
I have the same with my 3700x going to the 5700x3d- it runs hotter but as aaronyuri said the 3d cache means it runs hotter but all okay and completely within spec.

Cheers buddy! Thanks for the advice