Graphics card temperatures
Graphics card temperatures
Let's take a look at the graphics card GPU temperatures. First up, IDLE (desktop) temperatures where the GPU is not used or very little. Overall anything below 50 Degrees C is considered fine, anything below 40 Degrees C is very nice and below 30 Degrees C - excellent. But what happens when we are gaming? We fire off an intense game-like application at the graphics card and measure the highest temperature of the GPU.
So with the card fully stressed we kept monitoring temperatures and noted down the GPU temperature.
- LOAD - The temperature under heavy game stress for the card stabilized at a maximum of roughly 78 Degrees C for the RX 590. We note down the hottest GPU reading, not the average.
These tests have been performed with a 20~21 Degrees C room temperature, this is a peak temperature based on a FireStrike loop.
Long duration stress temperature and GPU clock-throttling
Have a look below at the nice and steady GPU clock, it rocking very steady is at the ~1580 MHz boost marker. The protective limiters (aside from the power limiter) kick in however the card does not seem to be throttling actively up and down a lot (which is good). This is FireStrike scene 1 looped continuously in what is actually our pre-benchmark warm-up sequence.
