Question Are my gpu hot spot temps too high?

[Damjan 000]

So I own a asus tuf RTX 3060 ti that I got used in march.
Since then I have repasted it and placed new thermal pads. My gpu temps while gaming have improved but they are still high.
While playing Cyberpunk 2077 at max settings my gpu temps are around 75c-78c ish while the hot spot is around 20 deagres hotter at around 95c-98c.
The gpu is working compleatly fine. The fans are fine and its memory clocks and boost clocks are aye ok yet I am still worried.
By the way I don't that the airflow is the issue.When I take of the side panel the gpu is cooler by about 5c but the offset between core and the hotspot is still around 18c-20c.

 

[XxDarkMario20xX]

Have you tried fan curve on gpu to lower temps and are the thermal pads you place on are correct size

 

[Damjan 000]

Have you tried fan curve on gpu to lower temps and are the thermal pads you place on are correct size

Thanks for the reply
For the fan curve i don't think that it is needed.
I have tried but there isn't one that isn't going to be super agressive.

One thing that annoys me is that it doesn't say where it is, because I think that it is the combination of the other 2 that you listed.

I used cheap thermal paste that I now realize has thermal conductivity of around 1.93 W/mK which is pretty low and <Mod Edit>.

And for the thermal pads I kinda got screwed over.

Basically the guy that I got the information from is incorrect.
The thermal pads around the vram I guess that it is somwhere in the 1.75mm range so I used 2mm.
Well that lead to bad mounting and the gpu shooting to 90+ c almost instantly under load.
So then i used 1.5mm and im guessing that it is barely enough. It is making contact as the fans are not going to 100% under load so the vram is not overheating and it is conducting heat but probably not well enough.

As for the solution im going to repaste it with some arctic mx4 and order very soft 2mm pads insted of these rock solid thermal grizzly ones and see if that solves it

 

[Phaaze88]

While playing Cyberpunk 2077 at max settings my gpu temps are around 75c-78c ish

That is good.

the hot spot is around 20 deagres hotter

Around 20C or lower is expected. It's pretty flexible.

When I take of the side panel the gpu is cooler by about 5c

Didn't use a fan(appliance) to blow air at it, or that difference would've been higher.
Sounds like airflow could be an issue.

 

[thestryker]

Looks like all of the TUF series use the same cooler which is a pretty good one so I'd expect temps to be lower than they are. The 3 reviews I looked at all had the card running upper 50s for temperatures so even if you expect it to be higher due to airflow you'd mentioned ~5C difference so you'd be talking mid 60s. I'd suggest using a good quality paste and ensuring that the pads you're using at the very least are the right thickness (or are really squishy so it doesn't matter as much) if not better quality pads period.

 

[Damjan 000]

Looks like all of the TUF series use the same cooler which is a pretty good one so I'd expect temps to be lower than they are. The 3 reviews I looked at all had the card running upper 50s for temperatures so even if you expect it to be higher due to airflow you'd mentioned ~5C difference so you'd be talking mid 60s. I'd suggest using a good quality paste and ensuring that the pads you're using at the very least are the right thickness (or are really squishy so it doesn't matter as much) if not better quality pads period.

That is good.


Around 20C or lower is expected. It's pretty flexible.


Didn't use a fan(appliance) to blow air at it, or that difference would've been higher.
Sounds like airflow could be an issue.

As for the ariflow problem again it might be an issue but my room is very well conditioned so open case is best case scenario but yet the offset is still 20c on the hot spot.
But while idle the difference is 10 degrees it is only when the gpu hits uper 50c that the difference increases so im guessing that it is just bad thermal paste. I will replace it with higher quiality arctic mx4 tomorow so I will update y'all.