Like I said in the title, my 3060 cannot go reach 70°C at all, even when I stress test the card many times without letting it cool down, the temperature just drops the instant it reaches 70. Is it thermal throttling? If it is then isn’t 70°C a bit low for that?
Are you using something to monitor frequency?
I use MSI Afterburner & RTSS
I’m not familiar with with of those in a monitoring capacity.
Try https://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html as well maybe?
If you’re stress testing it, your expect to see the card ramp up in temp. So my thinking is the card isn’t actually getting to and maintaining a real 100%.
HWMonitor shows the same readings, and Afterburner + RTSS is widely used to monitor system status though
Why are you worried about your gpu not getting to 70 degrees? Would you prefer it if it overheated/ throttled?
If you don’t see a drop in performance after testing then there shouldn’t be anything to worry about.
Highly depends on your cooler & fan speed too. Thermal throttling for gpus doesn’t usually happen until you go into the high 90s I believe.
Short answer: yes its fairly normal to not hit 70° with a good gpu cooler and decent airflow.
Longer answer: Try running furmark or a similar gpu benchmark that lets you monitor clock frequencies and power draw. That will let you see if you have any kind of actual problem or not. If there are no dramatic reduction in frequency/fps/powerdraw, theres nothing to troubleshoot.
