Is it normal for a 980 Ti to get this hot?

[Renton577]

I have a MSI Armor 2X 980 Ti it gets rather hot like all the way up to 91C hot, I reapplied thermal thermal compound and set the power and thermal limits back to the 100% and 83C but now it reaches 83C when under heavy load, the pref cap shows its thermal throttling but it stays above or at the listed boost speeds still. just seeing if this was normal or not. Honestly the heatsink on this card looks a little small for a 980 Ti.

[MegaDave91]

 

[Senzelian]

The Armor cards where never known for their great cooling performance and are more build for 970/1070 or 980/1080 cards.
But even 91°C is not a problem for the chip itself and considering its summer it makes sense to run warmer than usual.
I had my 980s running at up to 98°C in the summer and it worked just fine.

[Dezarc]

Is it over locked or running at stock speed? 

[★ Coups ★]

Yeah. GPUs get hot. 

[Mira Yurizaki]

~83C is the target temperature for NVIDIA GPUs. I think for the FE cards it's 85C. Either way, modern GPUs today will run as fast as they can before they run into a temperature limit before throttling. And "throttling" could just mean "not boost as much" to "not boost at all."

[Renton577]

8 minutes ago, MegaDave91 said:

 

This explains a lot I guess thats why my temps are as bad as they are

 

5 minutes ago, M.Yurizaki said:

~83C is the target temperature for NVIDIA GPUs. I think for the FE cards it's 85C. Either way, modern GPUs today will run as fast as they can before they run into a temperature limit before throttling. And "throttling" could just mean "not boost as much" to "not boost at all."

And yeah I guess since GPU boost gets as much as it can out of the card then I should feel good that it stays at the boost its rated at or above. I guess its not really throttling until it goes below the base clock right?

[Mira Yurizaki]

2 minutes ago, Renton577 said:

And yeah I guess since GPU boost gets as much as it can out of the card then I should feel good that it stays at the boost its rated at or above. I guess its not really throttling until it goes below the base clock right?

Yeah, pretty much.

[Mick Naughty]

To bad you cant get a blower style for it.

 

[Renton577]

1 hour ago, Mick Naughty said:

To bad you cant get a blower style for it.

 

Kind of wish I could with the case I'm using.

[Clyne]

It's a Armor, it's MSI's low tier cooler. If you want better cooling then get AIO solution or an Arctic Xtreme 4 cooler...