[SOLVED] CPU Temps During Benchmarking

[Eric92]

So I'm pretty uneducated on how temps affect boosting and clocks. I've never come close to reaching any limits on my last CPU (4790K) and never really ran things like Cinebench. I've only done this recently with my 5800X out of curiosity to see how it fared.

I've found that during R20/R23 runs the temps get to 88-90C. The limit in Ryzen Master is 90C. Will there be thermal throttling at those temps then I? My multicore scores are always lower than what I find in reviews. My single core scores will always be spot on and obviously the chip doesn't get to that high of a temperature.
In gaming temps are around 72C and from what I can tell my fps is pretty on point compared to other systems there.

To sum it up I'm wondering if my assumptions about my multicore scores being hurt my thermal throttling are correct and since my temps during gaming dont reach that I shouldn't worry about degraded gaming performance?

(I have not reapplied thermal paste or reseated the cooler yet but plan to. Kraken x62.)

 

[LeiHeJun]

@Eric92
Games don't use all cores. You can see your individual core usage by going to task manager, right-click on CPU and choose show logical processors.

You will see that during games, only few cores are in use. That's why you never reach 90c during game or see fps drop.

Sure for multicore you're hitting thermal limits and thus are throttling.

You shouldn't worry about thermal throttling during games. A lot of stuff are done on gpu. CPU doesn't dedicate all its cores to display games. GPU is not another CPU, if it was we would just buy two CPUs and no one would make graphics cards.
That's why a CPU can not be fully used during games, only one or two cores, others are thread.

 

[Mr.Spock]

Boosting occurs when most cores are free so single core scores reflect that.
Multi-core eliminates the boost so your scores drop (unless you've enabled PBO etc...)

TJMax is 90'c so it probably hits it during a synthetic benchmark - yeah do check the cooler

So I'm pretty uneducated on how temps affect boosting and clocks. I've never come close to reaching any limits on my last CPU (4790K) and never really ran things like Cinebench. I've only done this recently with my 5800X out of curiosity to see how it fared.

I've found that during R20/R23 runs the temps get to 88-90C. The limit in Ryzen Master is 90C. Will there be thermal throttling at those temps then I? My multicore scores are always lower than what I find in reviews. My single core scores will always be spot on and obviously the chip doesn't get to that high of a temperature.
In gaming temps are around 72C and from what I can tell my fps is pretty on point compared to other systems there.

To sum it up I'm wondering if my assumptions about my multicore scores being hurt my thermal throttling are correct and since my temps during gaming dont reach that I shouldn't worry about degraded gaming performance?

(I have not reapplied thermal paste or reseated the cooler yet but plan to. Kraken x62.)