Rx 580 55c idle temp

[John...]

Is 55c idle okay for rx 580?

[SirWendall]

A tad high? Have you ever taken it apart and applied new thermal paste?

[Tan3l6]

AMD cards are a bit hotter idle, but the important temp is under full load. If it's under 80C it's all fine. Even fine if it's a bit over 80C imo.

[John...]

3 minutes ago, SirWendall said:

A tad high? Have you ever taken it apart and applied new thermal paste?

I haven't changed the thermal paste/pads since i bought it (brand new)

[SirWendall]

Could always set a more aggressive fan curve. As long as you're not losing performance and hitting thermal capacity. 

[SirWendall]

1 minute ago, John... said:

I haven't changed the thermal paste/pads since i bought it (brand new)

It wouldn't hurt to check the die and see if it needs new paste. Preventative maintenance

[mariushm]

It's fine. 

Most models are configured in their bios/firmware to turn off the fans once the temperature goes below 55-60 degrees Celsius 

 

The video card gpu doesn't care if it runs at 55c or 75c, it works the same. It will start to lower frequencies a bit or boost the fans once you go above 85-90c and will probably shut down at 95-100c

 

[Cris.py]

It's normal. A bit high but still normal. I too have RX 580 and it idles at 55 C, but stays under 80 under heavy load and that's the important part.

[John...]

On 6/17/2021 at 9:45 PM, SirWendall said:

It wouldn't hurt to check the die and see if it needs new paste. Preventative maintenance

Do you think if I change the paste, It would be cooler?

[mariushm]

You can look in Radeon software at your fan curve ... its somewhere in Performance > Tuning > 

Set Tuning Control on Manual

Then you have Fan Tuning  ... set it to enabled ,  set Advanced control on enabled ... and you may have a further "Fine tuning" button under the graph.

For example, here's my Gigabyte Aorus RX 570 card's fan profile, which is stored in the bios :

 

You can see the P2 threshold, at 50c the card sets the fan at 39%  .. at 63c the fan speed is 51% ... you can see that even at 85c the card only spins the fans at 81% of their maximum rpm

The other card I had, a Sapphire, had option in its firmware to stop the fans below 50-55c, so in Windows the card kept spinning up the fans periodically at a few hundred rpm,  keeping card between 50-60c 

You can manually play with this graph and raise all points a notch, so that even at lower temperatures the fans spin a bit higher, so your video card will be a bit more noisy, but colder. But it's typically not needed... the only reason I'd do it if it's a small mATX case or you have a lot of mechanical drives heating up the internals of the case.