RTX 2060 Windforce OC temperature

[martward]

Hi all,

 

I got my new GPU today, a RTX 2060 Gigabyte Windforce OC. So far I am pretty happy with the performance, and it boosts to over 1900MHz without overclocking (1920-1965).

The only thing that I am not too impressed by is the temperature. The idle temperature is about 45 degrees, and the max I have seen in game is 83 degrees Celsius. Even at 83 degrees the fans were only spinning at about 80%, so clearly Nvidia doesn't think this temperature is a problem. However I saw reviews about these chips being around 75 at load and 35 at idle, thing with this is that I don't know what frequency their card was running at under load since none of them mention the frequency except when they're overclocking.

 

I would like to hear some thoughts on this. Should I be worried? Is there anything I could do to lower the temps a bit?

 

Thanks  

 

[Jurrunio]

probably just thermal paste problem. btw 20 series really dont like high temps, the max temperature allowed by Nvidia's vBIOS dropped from Pascal GTX 1060's 92C to 85C

 

undervolting can also help.

[martward]

3 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

probably just thermal paste problem. btw 20 series really dont like high temps, the max temperature allowed by Nvidia's vBIOS dropped from Pascal GTX 1060's 92C to 85C

 

undervolting can also help.

Hmm well that doesn't sound good. I just remembered that the FE doesn't have a 0 rpm mode, if I adjust the curve so the fans spin at 20% I drop down to about 30 degrees on idle as well. 

[Jurrunio]

4 minutes ago, martward said:

Hmm well that doesn't sound good. I just remembered that the FE doesn't have a 0 rpm mode, if I adjust the curve so the fans spin at 20% I drop down to about 30 degrees on idle as well. 

I myself don't really mind 0 rpm at idle or not because the case fans run all the time and drown out the noise from the GPU cooler at low RPM anyway. Full load temps is what you should worry about though

[martward]

17 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

I myself don't really mind 0 rpm at idle or not because the case fans run all the time and drown out the noise from the GPU cooler at low RPM anyway. Full load temps is what you should worry about though

Yeah so that's the thing.

 I don't know whether this is just GPU boost doing it's thing very well or the cooling not doing it's thing well. I mean it's oc'ing itself by +250MHz (reference boost clock is 1680, I'm running around 1930) and the default temperature limit is 83 degrees according to MSI Afterburner. Since the Card doesn't seem to really be trying it's best to not overheat (fans only spinning at 80%) it kinda looks like this is supposed to happen?

[Jurrunio]

3 minutes ago, martward said:

Yeah so that's the thing.

 I don't know whether this is just GPU boost doing it's thing very well or the cooling not doing it's thing well. I mean it's oc'ing itself by +250MHz (reference boost clock is 1680, I'm running around 1930) and the default temperature limit is 83 degrees according to MSI Afterburner. Since the Card doesn't seem to really be trying it's best to not overheat (fans only spinning at 80%) it kinda looks like this is supposed to happen?

that's why we use custom fan curves when possible

[martward]

20 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

that's why we use custom fan curves when possible

Tweaked some settings and adjusted the fan curve. Now I am getting around 75 degrees while boosting to 1905-1950MHz with an average of 1920MHz. The fans are audible when I turn off the sound during gaming but then again, why would I do that. Thanks

[DMAK676]

May I ask what settings you changed??? My EVGA Black is doing the same thing, i have the 2.75 slot card and my idle is like 45-50 sometimes and load its going to 80-83,,,thing is though that I purchased the Black,,not the XC ultra black or whatever I got the cheapest one, its rated at 1680 mhz but its overclocking itself to 1905-1950 and on top of that I ran precision x1 and ran the OC scanner and it said I can push it another 158 mhz , its making my cpu temps go up like 5 degrees as well, my gut says lower the power target but i just bought the card and dont want to brick it. thank you

[Wormhole]

1 hour ago, DMAK676 said:

May I ask what settings you changed??? My EVGA Black is doing the same thing, i have the 2.75 slot card and my idle is like 45-50 sometimes and load its going to 80-83,,,thing is though that I purchased the Black,,not the XC ultra black or whatever I got the cheapest one, its rated at 1680 mhz but its overclocking itself to 1905-1950 and on top of that I ran precision x1 and ran the OC scanner and it said I can push it another 158 mhz , its making my cpu temps go up like 5 degrees as well, my gut says lower the power target but i just bought the card and dont want to brick it. thank you

use msi afterburner set a max temp and run oc scanner save the profile and apply settings it will automatically set a fan curve for you.

[martward]

3 hours ago, DMAK676 said:

May I ask what settings you changed??? My EVGA Black is doing the same thing, i have the 2.75 slot card and my idle is like 45-50 sometimes and load its going to 80-83,,,thing is though that I purchased the Black,,not the XC ultra black or whatever I got the cheapest one, its rated at 1680 mhz but its overclocking itself to 1905-1950 and on top of that I ran precision x1 and ran the OC scanner and it said I can push it another 158 mhz , its making my cpu temps go up like 5 degrees as well, my gut says lower the power target but i just bought the card and dont want to brick it. thank you

I've left the powerlimit and temperature limit at 100 and 83 respectively. I just set the fan curve so it will ramp up higher on lower temperatures. Also I set the minimum fan speed to 30% so it won't reach 40C + when idling.

[martward]

10 hours ago, RoyceNZ said:

Changed thermal paste to noctua thermal paste. Let it sit idle for 40 minutes now and the idle temperature is 31. So a drop of 16%. Hopefully I will attain a better over lock now. Will post results tonight.

That's a nice reduction in temperatures. What are your temperatures when you're putting it under load for a while? I'm still in the 75C range, not sure how I feel about changing the thermal paste, I have never done it and it seems a bit scary to do for the first time on a brand new card.

[LukaLu]

Hi, im kinda new here, with the same problems when playing and also at idle temp in desktop the temperature is higher than expected.

My idle is somewhere around 40C and for example playing Far Cry 5 gets me without OC card temperatures around 60-65C with ultra settings and Far Cry New Dawn gets me temperatures all the way to 87C which is super bad since my max is 83 on MSI Afterburner,

I've also seen drop at idle to about 300Mhz does your trick also saves temperatures when at full load or only for idle temperature..any advice for ful load temperatures..i don't wanna add thermal paste right now because the GPU is new and has warranty so i dont wanna mess it up with that right now

 

Tnx 

[martward]

43 minutes ago, LukaLu said:

Hi, im kinda new here, with the same problems when playing and also at idle temp in desktop the temperature is higher than expected.

My idle is somewhere around 40C and for example playing Far Cry 5 gets me without OC card temperatures around 60-65C with ultra settings and Far Cry New Dawn gets me temperatures all the way to 87C which is super bad since my max is 83 on MSI Afterburner,

I've also seen drop at idle to about 300Mhz does your trick also saves temperatures when at full load or only for idle temperature..any advice for ful load temperatures..i don't wanna add thermal paste right now because the GPU is new and has warranty so i dont wanna mess it up with that right now

 

Tnx 

Your idle temps being about 40C doesn't need to be bad. If you have a card like mine that has a 0rpm mode then it's absolutely fine, since the fans will only kick in when the core temperature is 60C. The clock dropping to 300MHz at idle is a good thing, it saves power when the GPU is just not being utilized so you don't have to worry about it.

Adjusting the fan curve will work at idle and under load, however it depends on how you set up your curve. It does mean that the fans will spin faster and thus make more noise.

[_Hustler_One_]

On 3/17/2019 at 9:01 AM, RoyceNZ said:

whoa, just noticed a possible easy fix. After running the OC scanner again I saw that the gpu clock when in desktop dropped from the usual 1350 down to 300MHz.

You actually can do it by yourself by go to Nvidia Control Panel, under 3D Settings and go to Power Management Mode set it to "Optimum Power" mode.

 

OP, The high temp when idle most possibly happen because its power management mode in Nvidia control panel is set at maximum performance all the time, as we dont need their power when we are idling, put it at optimum power instead, so it will downclock to 300MHz by itself and it automatically lower the temps when idle.

[LukaLu]

Ok so when idle is cool than, i'll play a little with settings but the temps shouldt go under load to 87C i think and i set in msi afterburner the fan to 100% and it still was at 86-87C but only in games such as F1 2018, Far Cry new dawn, in others temps dont go higher than 70C...i opened the case and get my ventilator for air and aim it towards the GPU and then temps went from 87 to 60-65C but thats just temporary solution if i play games like F1 and FCND. I should probably get a extra ventilator and aim it towards the GPU i guess..

[martward]

20 hours ago, LukaLu said:

Ok so when idle is cool than, i'll play a little with settings but the temps shouldt go under load to 87C i think and i set in msi afterburner the fan to 100% and it still was at 86-87C but only in games such as F1 2018, Far Cry new dawn, in others temps dont go higher than 70C...i opened the case and get my ventilator for air and aim it towards the GPU and then temps went from 87 to 60-65C but thats just temporary solution if i play games like F1 and FCND. I should probably get a extra ventilator and aim it towards the GPU i guess..

Well I don't know your case and fan setup. But if there is not enough circulation of air in you case then turning up your fans won't do you that much good indeed. Make sure that you have enough intakes as well as exhaust fans (I have 3 intakes and 2 exhausts personally) and in logical places (e.g. intakes in the front, exhaust in the top and back).

[GoRebs622]

On 1/22/2019 at 1:55 PM, martward said:

Hi all,

 

I got my new GPU today, a RTX 2060 Gigabyte Windforce OC. So far I am pretty happy with the performance, and it boosts to over 1900MHz without overclocking (1920-1965).

The only thing that I am not too impressed by is the temperature. The idle temperature is about 45 degrees, and the max I have seen in game is 83 degrees Celsius. Even at 83 degrees the fans were only spinning at about 80%, so clearly Nvidia doesn't think this temperature is a problem. However I saw reviews about these chips being around 75 at load and 35 at idle, thing with this is that I don't know what frequency their card was running at under load since none of them mention the frequency except when they're overclocking.

 

I would like to hear some thoughts on this. Should I be worried? Is there anything I could do to lower the temps a bit?

 

Thanks  

 

How is everything working for you now? My Gigabyte Windforce OC (2 fans) hits 80 on about every game that I don't limit the FPS to 60 on. I cranked up the fans to 100 just to see what would happen and at full load, it kept it at 74 so I'd rather keep my fans alive than worry about another 6 degrees. I've got 3 intake fans and one outtake. Like you said though, the card doesn't freak out when it's getting hot.

[martward]

7 hours ago, GoRebs622 said:

How is everything working for you now? My Gigabyte Windforce OC (2 fans) hits 80 on about every game that I don't limit the FPS to 60 on. I cranked up the fans to 100 just to see what would happen and at full load, it kept it at 74 so I'd rather keep my fans alive than worry about another 6 degrees. I've got 3 intake fans and one outtake. Like you said though, the card doesn't freak out when it's getting hot.

Mine is usually at 75 with the fans between 80% and 90%. You could try adding an exhaust or moving one of the I takes tot the back/top and use it as an exhaust. These types of cards introduce more hot air in the case than blower style coolers, so getting air quickly in and out of the case might save you a degree or 2. Then again, 80C is within spec so it's not really necessary.

[CestMoi]

On 3/17/2019 at 6:14 PM, RoyceNZ said:

My card still gets up into the 70's because of my OC, that's where the throttling starts kicking in I think.

 

With this card it was super easy to reapply the thermal paste. 6 screws, remove the heatsink/fans, clean with some recommended paste cleaner (I used acetone with coffee filters) carefully so as not to accidentally pry off anything, apply small amount of noctua paste, reseat heatsink/fan module, rescrew. Easy.

 

Leave it about 20 minutes to let the paste set. 

 

Hello there.

 

How is your GPU performance? 
Is its temperature still ok?

[onlytesting12]

My card was also very hot, 83C+ while gaming.  I changed my case to an ASUS GT501, added 2 new Corsair 140mm intake fans and 3 120mm exhaust fans and this helped temps a lot.  However, when I started using a vertical GPU mount, that is when I seen the best temps while gaming.  I average between 68 and 72 no matter the game or fps when 1080p gaming.  On another note, I have seen my boost clocks go up to 1995MHz without changing any settings other than a custom fan curve.