GeForce RTX 50 suffers from overheating components - temperatures reach 107 °C
Resource Igor's Lab published a study according to which GeForce RTX 50 graphics cards can suffer from overheating of components even during normal operation. The reason lies in dense layout power elements, which disrupts the normal distribution of heat on the board.
During testing PNY RTX 5070 и Palit RTX 5080 Gaming Pro OC, the author of the study, Igor Vallossek, recorded dangerous temperatures in the zone between GPU and output ports. The RTX 5080 board heated up to 80,5 ° C, while the compact RTX 5070 has up to 107,3 ° C, while the graphics chip itself remained in the 70 °C range. Such values, especially higher 80 ° C, can speed up degradation of components.
Overclocker notes that chokes, transistors and VRM circuits are located too close together, without a sufficient heat dissipation system. At the same time, most models no thermal pads on the hot zones of the board, and there is no heat transfer to the backplate. After installing the pads and thermal paste, the temperature of the RTX 5080 dropped to 70,3 °C, and the RTX 5070 to 95 °C and below.
In addition to local overheating, Vallossek also criticized NVIDIA official documentation — according to him, many parameters are specified under ideal conditions and do not take into account real operating scenarios. There were no comments from NVIDIA at the time of publication.
