@ OP - some gaming
Thanks guys.
@keith12 , 69 degrees with cooling pad ? My laptop, without any cooling pad and when lying flat on a table, has GPU temperature around 80 degrees. This is when cpu turbo boost is on, power plan is Ultimate High Performance, no undervolting. I tried running Intel XTU but clock and voltage controls are disabled.
So the CPU and GPU chips are literally separated by about 2-3 inches inside the case (underneath cooling system). When one gets hot the other tends to heat up as well. So if your rocking an 4ghz all core and the CPU is running hot, the GPU will heat up perhaps more than usual.
So, I use throttlestop on my system. It's has more options, but it relatively easy to use.
As it stands, I have a -180mv undervolt on CPU, -121 on cache, and -50 on Intel iGPU.
Id say that when you run your CPU without boost, or at a set clock, that your GPU is cooler? That's how mine would act.
What I do (and this is just for my own personal preferences) is have 3 settings with TS. I have my CPU at 3.2ghz, 3.7ghz and 4ghz. So my CPU runs all core at these speeds. At 3.2 temps rarely get above 70c. At 3.7 temps seem to hit about 75-82, and with 4ghz it hits high 80's.
I don't use the boost options. Having one core boost to 4.5ghz achieves nothing for me. There is no difference in FPS for example in BF V. If I have the CPU at 3.2 ghz, I get equally as good performance as if it were 4ghz. Some games are impacted more by CPU and others GPU.
There has been some talk on the forum of 10th Gen Intel not working with XTU, and/or not able to undervolt. But, I'm not sure if that's accruate. Can you try TS and see if you can undervolt? You can check your undervolt with HWMon/Info to see if it's active.
edit: The cooling pad I use, is a Klim 5 fan with adjustable fan speeds. Whilst it only takes temps down by maybe 3-5c, it makes the temps really steady, and on the GPU means hardly any fluctuation in temps. CPU will always fluctuate in a laptop.