is 78 degrees too hot for a rtx 2060?

[aren332]

I just bought my self a used rtx 2060 evga ko ultra, and then i overclocked it. In fullscreen 1080p res furmark, is 78 degrees too hot? Do i need to repaste my gpu?

[manikyath]

no.

 

and for goodness sake, you do not need to repaste your GPU.

[Zando_]

Tis further toward oasty, but you're in Furmark not actual load (Furmark is a power virus  - does its best to pull the most power possible, not to simulate any normal load) so it's likely higher than normal, and you're still below the 80-83C the FE cards run at fine (my FE 2060 Super ran ~83C under full load). I believe the max safe temp is a good bit above that.

[Mark Kaine]

15 minutes ago, Zando_ said:

and you're still below the 80-83C the FE cards run at fine

yeah, its "fine" but afaik thats also where most nvidia gpus throttle to or under base clock? hence if a card is really stuck there,  that's not actually a good thing. personally i get a crisis if my gpu goes over 60C... thankfully it does rarely...ex: ow2 1440p 120fps ultra... 55C... 

 

agreed about fumark its dumb... doesn't actually prove anything of relevance and can (still) damage gpus that are a bit dodgy already due to high temps/power draw.

 

its basically snake oil for sellers to say "look max usage, max temps, doesn't crash!" ... doesn't mean thats necessarily true for an actual load scenario, like, i dunno,  an actual videogame instead of this awful "graphics benchmark". ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 

[Zando_]

2 minutes ago, Mark Kaine said:

yeah, its "fine" but afaik thats also where most nvidia gpus throttle to or under base clock? hence if a card is really stuck there,  that's not actually a good thing. personally i get a crisis if my gpu goes over 60C... thankfully it does rarely...ex: ow2 1440p 120fps ultra... 55C... 

No. Pascal and onwards will drop like... 10Mhz every 10C increment after 50C, a number that matters to benchmark scores (thus overclockers insisting on running cards cool as ice) but not practical use unless you're trying to streeeeetch how long you can keep a GPU usable. My 2060 Super ran the normal 1995Mhz at those temps fine. They won't throttle to under base clock until they hit max temps and have to do so to save from overheating.

4 minutes ago, Mark Kaine said:

agreed about fumark its dumb... doesn't actually prove anything of relevance and can (still) damage gpus that are a bit dodgy already due to high temps/power draw.

 

its basically snake oil for sellers to say "look max usage, max temps, doesn't crash!" ... doesn't mean thats necessarily true for an actual load scenario, like, i dunno,  an actual videogame instead of this awful "graphics benchmark". ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 

Like Prime95 smallFFT for CPUs, it does have some use. "Can my cooling handle a surprise power virus workload without going kaboom?". Amazon's New World RPG killed a couple 3090s by springing a surprise power virus load on them, IIRC it cause the VRAM to overheat and die. It's not unreasonable to want to make sure your cooling handles the worst surprises thrown at it.

[Chiyawa]

78c is, well, not ideal, but not bad actually. A repaste will only drop 2 or 3c, depending on your thermal paste, so I don't think it'll worth the hassle if you're not used to it.

 

Is your fan spinning at maximum or full speed?

 

One way to reduce your GPU temperature is to open your side panel. Another option is to increase airflow of your front fans. PC Case is also pretty important here, so without a clear picture, I can't pin point if we can make any improvement.

 

But over all, You shouldn't worry if the temperature stay 78c and don't go any higher. Your GPU cooling is still adequate.

[Mark Kaine]

24 minutes ago, Zando_ said:

No. Pascal and onwards will drop like... 10Mhz every 10C increment after 50C

yeah, thats how nvidia boost works.

 

24 minutes ago, Zando_ said:

My 2060 Super ran the normal 1995Mhz at those temps fine

hmm ok, but my 3070 will be at ~ 1915mhz at ~80C (i think more like 78 or so, some games it actually gets that hot without my undervolt) which may still be "base clock" but an actually noticeable difference to 2010mhz at 55C (even if it not that big of a difference)

 

i mean basically what im talking about is this , but unfortunately its for a 1000 series card, i suppose newer cards may throttle later, but probably not by much and its something most people would want to avoid obviously. 

 

theres a really hard cutoff at ~83C , wish i would find the same graphic for newer cards, i just always assumed it would be basically the same more or less 

 

24 minutes ago, Zando_ said:

Can my cooling handle a surprise power virus workload without going kaboom

yeah... the question is... do you want to know that... lol... i always feel really uneasy running p95, and i don't do it anymore,  it is actually useful for testing stability of cpu and ram overclocks in my experience though (although there are obviously a few alternatives) 

 

 

16 minutes ago, Chiyawa said:

One way to reduce your GPU temperature is to open your side panel. Another option is to increase airflow of your front fans. PC Case is also pretty important here, so without a clear picture, I can't pin point if we can make any improvement.

undervolting does wonders,  10-15C on my 3070, problem is, while simple in theory it can be quite challenging and needs some experience/ practice with Msi afterburner for sure.

 

19 minutes ago, Chiyawa said:

But over all, You shouldn't worry if the temperature stay 78c and don't go any higher. Your GPU cooling is still adequate.

yeah, i agree, its still ok, even though i personally would really rather want to avoid this, the cooler a pc runs the better  = ) 

[Zando_]

21 minutes ago, Mark Kaine said:

hmm ok, but my 3070 will be at ~ 1915mhz at ~80C (i think more like 78 or so, some games it actually gets that hot without my undervolt) which may still be "base clock" but an actually noticeable difference to 2010mhz at 55C (even if it not that big of a difference)

Never really saw an improvement from similar clock jumps (1995Mhz to 2100Mhz) on my 2060 Super in actual use, and it was less stable in stuff like Star Citizen that really doesn't like OCs even if they're stable in other games, so I've never kept an OC running. Point less being about overclocking, more that that clock difference is not that big. Getting like 8 more fps doesn't really help unless you were struggling to get 60fps to begin with (in which case you probably need to adjust your settings or get a better GPU).

 

And again, this is under FurMark, game temps should be a good bit lower, OP shouldn't have anything to worry about.

37 minutes ago, Chiyawa said:

Is your fan spinning at maximum or full speed?

^^^ may be more fan curve to be had if you don't mind the noise.

[aren332]

1 hour ago, Chiyawa said:

78c is, well, not ideal, but not bad actually. A repaste will only drop 2 or 3c, depending on your thermal paste, so I don't think it'll worth the hassle if you're not used to it.

 

Is your fan spinning at maximum or full speed?

 

One way to reduce your GPU temperature is to open your side panel. Another option is to increase airflow of your front fans. PC Case is also pretty important here, so without a clear picture, I can't pin point if we can make any improvement.

 

But over all, You shouldn't worry if the temperature stay 78c and don't go any higher. Your GPU cooling is still adequate.

fan is not spinning at max speed