Warning: Overheating Video Cards

[Mr_Gyactus]

Then, my wife's overheated (She also has a similar 20xx series card, slightly better than mine). It hasn't burned out, but it got blazing hot and eventually blue screened.
Note: I updated mine to a 4060 and it's running fine.

RTX20 is a 2018-2019 video card. Not THAT OLD.

Probably you were using DLSS + high level of shadow softening + perhaps NO lod. In short the AI part was working like crazy, and a entry level GPU card has not enough tensor core.

My advice is to let geforce experience decide the best for you, add a FPS limit (always a good idea) and if it is still overheating remove the other shadows.

[angienessyo]

Always cap your frame rate through your GPU’s software. I have a MSI 3080 and have kept cool temps with an fps capped through the NVidia control panel. After seeing New World and Diablo 4 kill cards, it’s just a good practice to have.

[GrizzlyTank]

Always cap your frame rate through your GPU’s software. I have a MSI 3080 and have kept cool temps with an fps capped through the NVidia control panel. After seeing New World and Diablo 4 kill cards, it’s just a good practice to have.

In their defence however, some of those cards weren't properly attached so the pins for the power melted.

[Souljacker]

You know, stuff works until it doesn't. A 20 series with this graphics update, that's a heavy lift. I'm in a higher end 30 series and I'm feeling the strain, going to upgrade PC when Win10 goes EOL next year. Hopefully 50 series will have dropped by then and had a couple nice refreshes.

Definitely should have turned those settings\resolution\etc down down down. And keep an eye on your fans, possible it just gave up the ghost and it didn't matter which game you happened to be playing at that moment.

[Immut]

A video game should not be causing your graphics card to overheat unless you're overclocking or have modified your card in some way. A GPU at 100% power load will give off a certain amount of heat that the engineers should have designed a cooling solution to dissipate. In the vast majority of cases, an overheating graphics card is due to dust, a bad case, or buying the cheapest version of the card you can find.

Modern graphics cards also have an emergency shutoff temperature. OP's case should never, ever happen. It actually sounds to me like a power supply failure.