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Is it normal for my RTX 3060 OC to never hit 70°C at 100% usage? (self.pcmasterrace)

submitted 2 years ago by 0Xero0 to c/pcmasterrace

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Like I said in the title, my 3060 cannot go reach 70°C at all, even when I stress test the card many times without letting it cool down, the temperature just drops the instant it reaches 70. Is it thermal throttling? If it is then isn't 70°C a bit low for that?

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[–] CaptPretentious 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Are you using something to monitor frequency?

[–] 0Xero0 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I use MSI Afterburner & RTSS

[–] CaptPretentious 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm not familiar with with of those in a monitoring capacity.

Try https://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html as well maybe?

If you're stress testing it, your expect to see the card ramp up in temp. So my thinking is the card isn't actually getting to and maintaining a real 100%.

[–] 0Xero0 1 points 2 years ago

HWMonitor shows the same readings, and Afterburner + RTSS is widely used to monitor system status though

[–] Melonpoly 3 points 2 years ago

Why are you worried about your gpu not getting to 70 degrees? Would you prefer it if it overheated/ throttled?

If you don't see a drop in performance after testing then there shouldn't be anything to worry about.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Highly depends on your cooler & fan speed too. Thermal throttling for gpus doesn't usually happen until you go into the high 90s I believe.

[–] Krei81 2 points 2 years ago

Short answer: yes its fairly normal to not hit 70° with a good gpu cooler and decent airflow.

Longer answer: Try running furmark or a similar gpu benchmark that lets you monitor clock frequencies and power draw. That will let you see if you have any kind of actual problem or not. If there are no dramatic reduction in frequency/fps/powerdraw, theres nothing to troubleshoot.

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