NVIDIA Removes Hot Spot Sensor from RTX 5090 and Other RTX 50 Series Cards

Along with the release GeForce RTX 5090 NVIDIA has introduced an updated dual-slot cooler designed to cool GPU with high power consumption. However, in the cards of the series RTX 50 an interesting nuance was noticed - Hot Spot Sensor Removal, which was used to diagnose the heating of individual areas of the graphics processor.

As reported by Wizzard, TechPowerUP technical editor and developer of the utility GPU-Z, the Hot Spot sensor has been completely removed from the RTX 50 cards. As a result, the current data on this temperature displayed in GPU-Z, they show 255°C, which is clearly incorrect.

The removal of the sensor is due to changes in the Blackwell architecture and the lack of support for this data in the NVIDIA API. Wizzard also reported that the next versions GPU-Z will no longer display incorrect Hot Spot information.

Hot Spot used to be a method of determining the highest temperature across multiple sensors on a chip. NVIDIA may bring this feature back in the future, but for now, users should stick to the default settings: temperature GPU и Memory.