NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER review

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Graphics Card Temperatures

Graphics card temperatures

So here we'll have a look at GPU temperatures. First up, IDLE (desktop) temperatures, as reported through software, on the thermal sensors of the GPU. IDLE temperatures first, overall anything below 50 Degrees C is considered okay, anything below 40 Degrees C is nice. We throw in some cards at random that we have recently tested in the below chart. But what happens when we are gaming? We fire off an intense game-like application at the graphics cards and measure the highest temperature of the GPU.   

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So with the card fully stressed we kept monitoring temperatures and noted down the GPU temperature as reported by the thermal sensor.

  • The card's temperature under heavy game stress stabilized at roughly 72~73 Degrees C. We note down the hottest GPU reading, not the average.
  • In idle the fans do spin, making this an active state of operation. That will decrease the idle temperature. 
These tests have been performed with a 20~21 Degrees C room temperature.

Long Duration Stress Temperature and GPU Throttling clock

Have a look below at the GPU clocks after a warmup and long durations stress.
  • The card is at an ~1900 MHz boost marker.
The protective limiters (aside from the power limiter) kick in albeit slightly as you can see the card throttling a tiny bit. This test is looped continuously in what is our pre-benchmark warm-up sequence.
 
  

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