Warning: Overheating Video Cards

[Larirawiel]

Wouldn't Furmark be a lot easier? It can even test stability of power delivery by maxing out CPU & GPU at the same time.

No. Furmark is basically an overheating test. And it is throttled down in AMD- and Nvidia drivers to prevent overheating. The FF14 benchmark however is a good memory- or "did i undervolt/overclock too much"-test. I know one case, that a guy undervolted his GPU. All games but the FF14 benchmark ran stable. He undervolted the GPU a little bit less and it also worked with the FF14 benchmark. The FF14 spoiled a semi stable system.



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[dullneedles]

I've got a Ryzen 5, it's older but plays Baldur's Gate 3 smooth as butter on max graphics. I started up the benchmark and my fans went into overdrive. I've never even heard my fans running before since I've owned this machine, and they're clean as a whistle.

[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.

[seraf]

Watch out for your CPU, because FFXIV demands a lot on congested zones. Isn't that heavy GPU.

I've a 3070 at 2k resolution and in main cities it drops to 55 fps because my cpu it's an i7 8700.

To be fair this game has always been CPU heavy and up until Endwalker it didn't even properly utilize 64-bit code and ran on only a single core. It still demands really fast IPC to get stable frame rates in towns and cities.

[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.

[Shialan]

I've got a Ryzen 5, it's older but plays Baldur's Gate 3 smooth as butter on max graphics. I started up the benchmark and my fans went into overdrive. I've never even heard my fans running before since I've owned this machine, and they're clean as a whistle.

Cool story. I wonder if there could be a difference between these two games. But probably not. Games are games and every game has the same graphic. /s