Hi all,
I recently received my 2080 XC black edition, and have been testing it out. The temperatures and fan noise I've been getting with it are worse than what I was expecting (mostly compared to the several GPUs from older generations I've owned).
I did some temperature testing on the card by opening the case and measuring the temperatures using Precision X1. The room temperature was about 72F. For idle temps, the card would land at 55C with fans at 425RPM (12%). It's worth noting my main monitor runs at 144Hz which seems to always keep a small load on the GPU. These "idle" temperatures are a little higher than what I've seen with my previous cards.
Next, I ran Kingdom Come: Deliverance to test a game load. I found the temperature would climb up to 78C within 20 minutes with fans at 2200RPM (~65%) which was very audible. The card was running around 1860MHz on the core clock and hitting power limit with the default 100% power target. So, I would have to raise the power target (and temperatures) to have the card run the Default speeds without hitting power limit. These temperatures and fan speeds (even without raising the power target) are significantly worse than I've experienced with other GPUs at Default settings that I've owned.
While none of these results are alarming, I decided to pop off the GPU cooler to check if anything obvious was causing these rather high temps. I found that the thermal paste on the GPU in the card seemed to have a rather large area (0.5 - 1 inch diameter) where there was little-to-no thermal paste. So, I cleaned off the paste and re-applied with some Arctic Silver 5. After testing again, the temperatures were only about 1-2C lower than before. I popped off the cooler again to check the paste and found that there was still the same area where little-to-no thermal paste remained. Here is a pic of this:
In my experience, this means that either the GPU or cooler surface is not even which could mean poor contact between the two and worse temperatures. But I am not sure if this really is the issue. Are the temperatures I'm experiencing expected for this card?
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