I have read through a few threads , but I don't believe mine is a false reading. It only indicates "yes" once the hotspot hits 84 degrees Celsius, which is the thermal limit listed in hwinfo. Should the card start throttling when the hotspot hits thermal limit? I thought it would only throttle when the core hit the thermal limit. This is with a 4080 super.
Performance limit thermal HOTSPOT yes
- Thread starter BillyBob
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I think its the default behavior of nVidia cards, it doesnt mean that it throttles.
Just that further boosting is stopped by thermal limit. If you somehow cool the card better or ambient temp gets lower, it will do the same eventually on power limit before it reaches thermal.
Just that further boosting is stopped by thermal limit. If you somehow cool the card better or ambient temp gets lower, it will do the same eventually on power limit before it reaches thermal.
Yeah, it doesn't seem to throttle it going by the clock speeds. It's running at constant 2970 to 3015 that's with +220 on the core and +1250 on memory no increase to power limit though which is why it can stay cooler than maybe it should. With a flashed galax 440w bios but only hits 335w. It's strange because my card is the inno3d 4080 super and it is locked down to 320w with the default bios, but it didn't spin the fan rpm's up even at full usage so I was getting higher temps with the default 320w bios than I'm getting with the 440w galax bios. And since switching to the galax bios it hasn't triggered the thermal throttling in hwinfo. So who knows.