- Feb 23, 2007
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Trying to confirm my suspicions before I seek an RMA or replacement. I recently nabbed a Gigabyte Windforce 980Ti to burn up some gift cards that were about to expire, and I think the heatsink might be damaged or not properly seated to the GPU. Or it sucks very much badly.
Desktop idle seems OK. 35ish C with the fans totally off, and it pretty much stays there. But then again the GPU is massively underclocking in that state.
Whenever the GPU gets any significant load, the temps immediately spike to the mid 80's Celsius as the fan ramps up. When total GPU load is over, oh, 75-80% the card starts to throttle, sometimes heavily.
Running Furmark the card spikes to 99% use and 91C before throttling and staying at 595 MHz with the fan at 100%. Temps cool down to around 87-89C under those conditions. I've read some reports of throttling, but not THAT extreme. It also seems to carry over to general gameplay from time to time. Assuming a 60 Hz vsync, the core tends to hover around the base clock, though it does throttle a bit from time to time depending on the intensity.
So, basically, am I right in assuming that something's amiss? Under continual max load my 970 blows away the 980 Ti thanks to the throttling.
Desktop idle seems OK. 35ish C with the fans totally off, and it pretty much stays there. But then again the GPU is massively underclocking in that state.
Whenever the GPU gets any significant load, the temps immediately spike to the mid 80's Celsius as the fan ramps up. When total GPU load is over, oh, 75-80% the card starts to throttle, sometimes heavily.
Running Furmark the card spikes to 99% use and 91C before throttling and staying at 595 MHz with the fan at 100%. Temps cool down to around 87-89C under those conditions. I've read some reports of throttling, but not THAT extreme. It also seems to carry over to general gameplay from time to time. Assuming a 60 Hz vsync, the core tends to hover around the base clock, though it does throttle a bit from time to time depending on the intensity.
So, basically, am I right in assuming that something's amiss? Under continual max load my 970 blows away the 980 Ti thanks to the throttling.