Is it normal for my tablet's CPU to be this hot?

[BloodyWaters]

I have an Nvidia Shield K1 tablet, and I wanted to see how it performed under load. When I put it under full load the CPU ran at 220°F. I know it's probably fine because it is designed differently than a cpu in a PC, but I'm just making sure.

[Mira Yurizaki]

220F is 104C.

 

That's actually not a good temperature.

[BloodyWaters]

Just now, M.Yurizaki said:

220F is 104C.

 

That's actually not a good temperature.

Oh wow. Could CPU-Z be wrong?

[Aleksbgbg]

Just now, BloodyWaters said:

Oh wow. Could CPU-Z be wrong?

I think you should turn it off and not use it so much

 

and I doubt it, but its possible since it's not on a desktop

[Mira Yurizaki]

It could be right. But that's still not a good temperature to be at. To put in perspective, most PC components, laptop or desktop, will start to throttle at this point.

[BloodyWaters]

It gets up to 200 after 10 seconds.

 

[BloodyWaters]

1 minute ago, BloodyWaters said:

It gets up to 200 after 10 seconds.

 

Seems to average around 220 and the back of the tablet gets noticably warm. This is only when it's under full load, it's about 120°F normally.

[corrado33]

Tablets aren't designed to run at 100% CPU load for extended periods of time.

 

Stop testing it that way unless you want to end up with a dead tablet.

 

 

[BloodyWaters]

50 minutes ago, corrado33 said:

Tablets aren't designed to run at 100% CPU load for extended periods of time.

 

Stop testing it that way unless you want to end up with a dead tablet.

 

 

10 seconds isn't an extended period of time. 

[Zodiark1593]

On 11/11/2016 at 7:52 AM, corrado33 said:

Tablets aren't designed to run at 100% CPU load for extended periods of time.

 

Stop testing it that way unless you want to end up with a dead tablet.

 

 

A tablet that isn't defective shouldn't allow the SoC to cook itself to the point of death (this is what thermal throttling is for).

 

On the other hand, if OP had disabled thermal throttling, then deadly temperatures may be a concern.