Fun fact for NVIDIA users

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You can monitor the temperature, load and power draw of your GPU in real-time while you play the game by opening a Command Prompt or Powershell on another screen and typing:

nvidia-smi dmon

You can see the temperature limits of your GPU by running this command:

nvidia-smi -q -d TEMPERATURE

For example, the temperature query on my 3080 FE returns this:

==============NVSMI LOG==============

Timestamp                                 : Sun Jun 25 03:03:51 2023
Driver Version                            : 536.23
CUDA Version                              : 12.2

Attached GPUs                             : 1
GPU 00000000:01:00.0
    Temperature
        GPU Current Temp                  : 52 C
        GPU T.Limit Temp                  : N/A
        GPU Shutdown Temp                 : 98 C
        GPU Slowdown Temp                 : 95 C
        GPU Max Operating Temp            : 93 C
        GPU Target Temperature            : 83 C
        Memory Current Temp               : N/A
        Memory Max Operating Temp         : N/A

So the throttle temperature on my 3080 is 95 C, which is about 203 F. These things run hot.

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I just use MSI Afterburner to track temps + setup a custom fan curve. But this is cool, didn’t know there was a built in way to do so

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My 4060 ti hasn’t gotten hotter than 71c yet, so I think I’m in good shape. I didn’t even think about downloading Afterburner. My card is MSI.

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This. Afterburner + Rivia. I’ve got all the stats I could want, and a hotkey to show/hide the info. WAY better than having to go into CMD and such, especially considering that if you care at all about these kind of figures anyway, you likely already have Afternurner installed.

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I’m a network engineer by trade. I’m used to having multiple terminal windows up, so the nvidia-smi method works for me. It’s lightweight and readily available as soon as you install your drivers. To each their own.