My laptop has an RTX 3060 and when playing games almost always goes up to 85-86 degrees and stays there. Is that the thermal limit for the RTX3060 and is it harmful in the long term?
Its a Gigabyte G5 KC-5ES1130SH and its running in the last bios version (idk how to check it). its runnuing windows 10 21H2 Windows Feature Experience Pack 120.2212.4170.0. Ive already changed the thermal paste.You're within the range of it being "fine". If you were at 100 Deg C constantly, that would've been worrying. Make and model of your laptop? BIOS version for said laptop? OS used? If Windows 10, please mention the OS version(not edition). If the laptop is easy to disassemble, you can change the thermal paste in your cooling assembly and/or use higher quality thermal pads to help dissipate the heat.
Mind you, if the laptop is an ultraslim'ish form factor mobile computing device then those temps are probably right without taking into account corruption in drivers or the OS.