PNY 4070 hotspot 107℃ during gaming

[Skylinestar]

My PNY Verto (dual fan) RTX4070 hotspot is more than 105°c while playing Resident Evil 3 with ray tracing at 1440p. I guess that's normal because ray tracing is heavy. I try playing The Outer Worlds (Spacer's Choice Edition). At high preset, the hotspot is more than 105°c. This is with framerate cap at 90fps. The fan is noisy as long as the gpu temp is more than 80°c.

3DMark Time Spy: Hotspot is about 106°c.
3DMark Steel Nomad: Hotspot is about 109°c.

Is there anything wrong with the thermal solution of this card? Is this normal? Should I worry about longevity?
Before I have this 4070, I was using Palit Jetstream GTX1070, which was super quiet in all my gaming session. The Palit did have much larger heatsink.

The review at pokde.net here shows hotspot below 90°c during various tests. This makes me more worried.

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I have attached a gpu-z sensor screenshot here.

 

[boppingXQWB]

How old is the card? Sounds like it needs a repaste.

 

[Skylinestar]

How old is the card? Sounds like it needs a repaste.

12 months.

 

[SirPuertas]

Hello, I have the same card
I recommend that you Undervolt your graphics card with the Afterburner program. Search on Youtube how to do undervolt, it is very simple, you will be able to reduce the temperature a lot.
The card should not consistently exceed 80 degrees, that is not good or it will end up breaking.
It is important that you reduce the graphics load of the games if it exceeds 84 degrees, as the noise is too annoying and will end up spoiling

 

[Hereticbar]

My PNY Verto (dual fan) RTX4070 hotspot is more than 105°c while playing Resident Evil 3 with ray tracing at 1440p. I guess that's normal because ray tracing is heavy. I try playing The Outer Worlds (Spacer's Choice Edition). At high preset, the hotspot is more than 105°c. This is with framerate cap at 90fps. The fan is noisy as long as the gpu temp is more than 80°c.

Is there anything wrong with the thermal solution of this card? Is this normal? Should I worry about longevity?
Before I have this 4070, I was using Palit Jetstream GTX1070, which was super quiet in all my gaming session. The Palit did have much larger heatsink.

I have attached a gpu-z sensor screenshot here.

It is definitely not normal. The graphics card I used to play Resident Evil 3 Remake was a RTX 3090 from Zotac with a relatively small and weak cooler, the GPU hotspot if I remember correctly was around 80°c and that's with the card drawing 380w of power. My room is kind of warm, usually it is around 27-28°c. The only thing that ever got close to 100°c on that card were the VRAM on the back.

Did you check and see if the fans on the graphics card are working? Maybe you somehow accidentally messed up the fan curve?

 

[Vya Domus]

It's pretty terrible, repaste it.

 

[tugrul_LordOfDrinks]

I have old 4070 too, it goes up 80C gpu and 95-100 hotspot when fan is silent. Its like this from day 1. Ventus 2x has bad cooler. But also my pc has bad air flow.

But, increasing fan speed a bit, undervolding a bit, fps capping, helps reduce to 65-70C gpu.

 

[Cowboystrekk]

Get ptm7950 and undervolt the card. 2700@950mv should give you stock performance at 25% lower powerdraw

 

[mclaren85]

My MSI Suprim X non lhr rtx 3080 was going up to 110 even at first launch. After changing the paste with thermalright heilos, the temp never passed 70 again.

 

[droopyRO]

Only repaste it if you don't void your warranty ! You could try to RMA it, send PNY an email and ask them.

 

[Skylinestar]

Hello, I have the same card
I recommend that you Undervolt your graphics card with the Afterburner program. Search on Youtube how to do undervolt, it is very simple, you will be able to reduce the temperature a lot.
The card should not consistently exceed 80 degrees, that is not good or it will end up breaking.
It is important that you reduce the graphics load of the games if it exceeds 84 degrees, as the noise is too annoying and will end up spoiling

Is your card just as hot?

The first game that I played with that card was God of War. I played it last year when the card was new. I was not aware of the temperature at that time because the fans were not noisy, which means the temperature wasn't that high.

I'm a little disappointed by the cooler performance of my PNY card. The internet community always say get the cheapest card on the market, but to avoid the 2-fan MSI Ventus due to temperature issue. I'm not sure if the PNY Verto has the same mediocre performance, or it's just poor thermal pads/paste, poor cooler design, or just my bad luck.

It is definitely not normal. The graphics card I used to play Resident Evil 3 Remake was a RTX 3090 from Zotac with a relatively small and weak cooler, the GPU hotspot if I remember correctly was around 80°c and that's with the card drawing 380w of power. My room is kind of warm, usually it is around 27-28°c. The only thing that ever got close to 100°c on that card were the VRAM on the back.

Did you check and see if the fans on the graphics card are working? Maybe you somehow accidentally messed up the fan curve?

Fans are running.
I don't use any custom fan curve. All stock/default.

 

[Skylinestar]

Only repaste it if you don't void your warranty ! You could try to RMA it, send PNY an email and ask them.

Today I send my card back to the shop for warranty. Hope the turn-around time isn't too long.

 

[Ruru]

Only repaste it if you don't void your warranty ! You could try to RMA it, send PNY an email and ask them.

I guess that depends of the country and retailer. That's why I also don't recommend repasting if a card still has warranty left.

 

[Skylinestar]

Got my RMA settled. New card hotspot is 90°c during Steel Nomad benchmark. Previously was 109°c. Fan noise is now more tolerable.

 

[Chrispy_]

Target temperature for a modern Geforce is usually 82 or 83C and a healthy hotspot delta is about 15C, so any hotspot reading over 98C is abnormal as far as I'm concerned.

It's also worth noting that very few Geforce GPUs actually reach their target temperature these days because Nvidia have such strict control of the power limits. Look at reviews of the 40-series cards, most of them have fan curves and coolers that keep the GPU temperatures below 70C, so a hotspot of no more than 85C would be pretty typical.

 

[freeagent]

Throw a pad on there and don't look back.. for a couple of years anyway

 

[Grimling]

your TIM has pumped out from the GPU die. your card is throttling, performance is reduced. you have to open the card and repaste it. or better use a ptm7950 or a carbon pad to improve long time stability. because normal paste will only last for some months, before you have the same problem again.
with a ptm7950 you can expect hotspot temps under 80C.

edit: you where lucky that you got this as an RMA, because ASUS would not do that, they would tell you 105C is FINE!
but again they used normal paste, so your temp will go up again very soon. and 90C is not that good either. my ASUS 4080S has hotspot temp around 69-74C after the ptm7950.

 

[TheDeeGee]

Needs a repaste, my PNY RTX 4070 Ti XLR8 had 95C hotspot within 2 years as most of the thermal paste had pumped out.

I swapped mine with a Thermal Grizzly Kryosheet and everything went back to stock temps, with the hotspot staying 8C away from core temp.

 

[Grimling]

Needs a repaste, my PNY RTX 4070 Ti XLR8 had 95C hotspot within 2 years as most of the thermal paste had pumped out.

I swapped mine with a Thermal Grizzly Kryosheet and everything went back to stock temps, with the hotspot staying 8C away from core temp.

what are your temps now according to hwinfo?