How hot is a healthy heat for a graphics card? (Farenheit)

[Rando_LTT_viewer]

hi

[seon123]

No one uses Fahrenheit, no matter where you are, when it comes to PC hardware. As long as you are below 95C GPU edge temperature, you're not overheating

[MadAnt250]

Under 80c, 176F.

[SnowyMus]

55 minutes ago, seon123 said:

No one uses Fahrenheit, no matter where you are, when it comes to PC hardware. As long as you are below 95C GPU edge temperature, you're not overheating

I do see the occasional friend or two who has their temperature monitor set to show Fahrenheit.

 

As someone who lives in the United States, I find Celsius to be a good temperature scale for hardware temperatures. It's already a 0-100 scale for water, and it just so happens that around 100 degrees is also the temperature in which many CPUs and GPUs thermal throttle.

 

Many desktop Intel CPUs such as the Intel Core i9-9900K having a Tjunction of 100 C which, when that's exceeded, they thermtrip. Some of their mobile CPUs have that set to 105 C, like the Intel Core i7-3667U. The latest Zen AMD CPUs have a maximum temperature of 95 C before they throttle. These are nice, round figures.

 

As human beings, we work best with a base 10 system. I think using Fahrenheit's 32-212 scale would be a lot more complicated to use than Celsius's 0-100 scale for something like a processor's temperature, plus it isn't like we're baking things or checking the weather, so there really isn't any advantage to it even if you use Fahrenheit for those things.

Anyway, back to the question.

57 minutes ago, Rando_LTT_viewer said:

hi

I recommend checking the page for your graphics card for the maximum GPU temperature.

 

If you're using an NVIDIA card, you can find this information on the page for the graphics card. From quickly looking at some cards:

• 2000 cards have this at 88-89 C
• 1600, 1000, and 900, and 700 series cards have that at 92-97 C.

Basically, stay under 85 C and you're good.

 

If you're using an AMD card, unfortunately AMD doesn't document this information for their GPUs on their GPU's website, so there isn't a clear answer here. Staying under 85 C is definitely fine, though.

 

Also, just because a card exceeds these temperatures doesn't mean it'll damage itself. I'd actually be more concerned about the performance implications. If, say, your card hits 95 C, it probably won't boost as well (if at all) as if you were at 85 C, and some cards may even throttle. Unless your card is defective in some way, your card will throttle and/or shut off before it gets hot enough to kill itself, though, as it has safeguards to protect against that

 

As for damage, I suppose the card might age faster if you leave it at these high temperatures for long periods of time, too. The fans are moving parts, and they spin faster depending on temperature, so they may wear out faster. I guess the exact behavior will depend on what graphics card you have. But even despite this, your graphics card is probably (key word: probably, not definitely) going to be long obsolete by the time anything fails.

As for converting these temperatures to Fahrenheit, here, though you can use Google to convert temperatures, too:

 

105 C = 221 F

100 C = 212 F

95 C = 203 F

90 C = 194 F

85 C = 185 F

 

(anything lower: delta 5 C = delta 9 F)

 

Switch your hardware monitor's setting to Celsius today and save 80% + 32 on your sanity today.

[Rando_LTT_viewer]

Oh, thanks! Checked, my GPU is a max of 97 C, and I'm always under that