well a GPU launch day wouldn't be complete without a lonus tech tips
evaluation of the temperatures of the new card under idle and load conditions
so remember that the load that I'm going to show you today is going to be kind of
a worst case scenario running furmark and the idle is well that's that's a
pretty typical scenario but it's still a bit of a best case because I am running
on an open test bench and your CPU CPU wow your computer k
is actually going to keep things a little bit toastier than an open test
bench just because of the recycling of the air that's being used to cool the
components so our idle temperature for this brand new GPU from NVIDIA is
actually 38° and it does that at a fan speed of
about 40% well exactly 40% which equates
to almost 1,400 RPM and
uh yeah so that's for straightforward isn't it so I'll show you the load
temperatures as well as compare it to its predecessor which was often
criticized for running too hot the GTX
480 for the GP Leu load comparison on
the GTX 580 you can see I've got fir Mark running here in extreme burning
mode and you can see the uh the Ryzen
temperature while I held a piece of paper over the intake of the fan so that
it wouldn't so that it would heat up pretty quickly so that I could get my
results and uh you can see it actually settled down into a temperature of 69°
cus okay you can see that is backed up by afterburner over here with the fan
running at about 53 to
54% which is about uh 1,920 RPM so
that's not bad at all and that's quite cool compared to other firmy based cards
mind you this is gf10 not gf100 that
we're talking about it's a whole new
Beast the idol reading for the GTX 480
really does tell the story despite this card being significantly less powerful
than the 580 it runs significantly and I
am overusing that word hotter than the GTX 580 so it idles at a whopping
47° and that's with a fan RPM of over 1500 RPM bear in mind these are using a
fairly similar fan although the cooler
design is quite different because the GTX 480 uses heat pipes whereas the GTX
580 actually uses a vapor chamber design that is hidden by the plastic
shroud so if you weren't aware already Yes GTX
480s reputation for running toasty is
well enough deserved so we've got the fan RPM up around uh almost 3,000 RPM
with a speed of 7 2 1% and we are still
at 92° that's very very hot especially
considering we are running on an open test platform in a reasonable
temperature room now when you have a GTX 480 running nonstop in uh in a normal
size room it will actually heat up the room several degrees so uh that fan is
actually going to go higher when it's inside a case in a warmer room so the
GTX 580 is a huge improvement over the
GTX 480 in that regard I sure wish I had something newer
from AMD to compare against the GTX 580
uh wink wink nudge nudge but I guess the
5870 will just have to do for now so you can see we're running at about 38° and
that is with a fan speed percentage of only about 20% so we'll show you the
load temperatures and uh
that'll be in just a moment so I guess we kind of know this already but there
we go the 5870 it's been on the market for a while loads at about 85° with a
fan speed of yeah only about 37% so you
could tweak the fan profile a little bit if you wanted set it up so that that fan
ramps up a little bit more and gives you better temperatures but honestly it's
not necessary it's designed to run just fine at that temperature like I said
we'll have something better to compare this with the uh 58 80 against compare
against the 580 from AMD fairly soon thank you for checking out my video on
the temperatures of the GTX 580 against
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