How to decrease temperature of the nvidia card ?

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How to decrease temperature of the nvidia card ?

Post by promeneur »

The temperature of the nvidia card is 70 °C. This is very hot. Nvidia's settings manager says it is a yellow temp. I want to decrease the temperature to reach a green temperature, about 60 °C.

I tried to use "gpu-usage = 50". The temperature stays at 70 °C.

How to decrease temp of the nvidia card ?

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Re: How to decrease temperature of the nvidia card ?

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The card is designed to operate within a specific temperature window.

Assuming you're running windows you can download MSI afterburner.
This will let you control the power limit and fan speed of the card, both up and down.

It can be done in linux but it's a bit more involved.
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Re: How to decrease temperature of the nvidia card ?

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The "gpu-usage" option shouldn't be used. 70 °C GPU junction temperature for a modern GPU is not high - a modern Nvidia GPU can run up to around 93 °C depending on model.

The good news is that a slight power limit reduction tends to give much less power usage while not hurting PPD that much. On Linux can use

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sudo nvidia-smi -pl ???
to set the number of watts to run on. The allowed numbers depends on the GPU. For example, my 1660 Super can be set between 50 and 150 W. There is a bit more work to make that setting persistent, but you can make little script that runs the command when the graphics launch.
On Windows you can use tools like MSI Afterburner to reduce the power limit to e.g. 80%. It is possible to make the setting persistent so that MSI Afterburner remebers the settings on boot.

Otherwise, you can play around with the fan curves of your case and/or GPU to balance noise and cooling. If your case is a 65 °C hotbox with bad airflow, that limits the cooling ability of the GPU compared to if your internal case temperature is 34 °C. I have a Corsair ML fan tied to the case or GPU temperature to keep the case nice and cool.
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Re: How to decrease temperature of the nvidia card ?

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My Os is linux openSuse 15.3.
my nvidia card is NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030.

I don't know the power limits. Where I can find them ?

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Re: How to decrease temperature of the nvidia card ?

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nvidia-smi -q|grep Limit
For my card, that gives

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        Power Limit                       : 150.00 W
        Default Power Limit               : 125.00 W
        Enforced Power Limit              : 150.00 W
        Min Power Limit                   : 70.00 W
        Max Power Limit                   : 150.00 W
I'm going to guess that the 1030 has a standard power limit of 30 watts.
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Re: How to decrease temperature of the nvidia card ?

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By the way, the 1030 has a max GPU temperature of 97 °C, so 70 °C is not hot at all - it is a normal working temperature. I wouldn't worry about it.
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Re: How to decrease temperature of the nvidia card ?

Post by promeneur »

I get no problem with case temp. The fan pulse a fresh air out of the case.

Only the case fan moves from about 1200 rpm to 1300 rpm. A bit noisier.

I will let the things as they are.

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Re: How to decrease temperature of the nvidia card ?

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promeneur wrote:I get no problem with case temp. The fan pulse a fresh air out of the case.

Only the case fan moves from about 1200 rpm to 1300 rpm. A bit noisier.

I will let the things as they are.

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I used to run my passive 1030 GPUs with a case fan.
An 80 mm case fan running at 6V, only consumes 0.25W, and keeps those GPUs below 50C.
If you already have an active heat sink, you could try to fit a case fan of a slightly larger size, with curved blades. They make less noise.
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Re: How to decrease temperature of the nvidia card ?

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My NVIDIA card is an ASUS SL one, One with a passive cooling, no fan.
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promeneur wrote:The temperature of the nvidia card is 70 °C. This is very hot. Nvidia's settings manager says it is a yellow temp. I want to decrease the temperature to reach a green temperature, about 60 °C.

I tried to use "gpu-usage = 50". The temperature stays at 70 °C.

How to decrease temp of the nvidia card ?

Thanks
It's a perfectly fine temperature.

If you want to decrease it, increase fan speed manually with a dedicated tool (like MSI Afterburner) ...
promeneur wrote:My NVIDIA card is an ASUS SL one, One with a passive cooling, no fan.
So to decrease its temperature, it's easier to add a case fan on it.
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Re: How to decrease temperature of the nvidia card ?

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promeneur wrote:My NVIDIA card is an ASUS SL one, One with a passive cooling, no fan.
I think what is being proposed is adding a case fan directed at this passively cooled card may actively cool it a bit more.
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