What does the "hot spot" say or indicate on gpuz

[A&P211]

I just bought a used, new to me, laptop with a 4080, Asus g16 with a Nvidia 4080 graphics card. I was running some temps stress test and got this.
What does the hot spot indicate?, I was always wondered. That is the reading from gpuz.

 

[SPDIF]

Read this thread for more information about this.

Can one trust GPU-Z ‘GPU hot spot’ and ‘memory junction’ figures?

I have in front of me three EVGA 2080 Super FTW3 Hybrid cards. When I stress test them with TimeSpy Extreme GPU-Z reports GPU temperature and all ICX temperatures (GPU, memory, and power) are within 2C across all three -BUT- hot spot and memory (junction?) on one of them are reported almost 10 C...

www.techpowerup.com

 

[A&P211]

Read this thread for more information about this.

Can one trust GPU-Z ‘GPU hot spot’ and ‘memory junction’ figures?

I have in front of me three EVGA 2080 Super FTW3 Hybrid cards. When I stress test them with TimeSpy Extreme GPU-Z reports GPU temperature and all ICX temperatures (GPU, memory, and power) are within 2C across all three -BUT- hot spot and memory (junction?) on one of them are reported almost 10 C...

www.techpowerup.com

So the gpu is running too hot.

 

[SPDIF]

Did you carefully read the thread? The developer says it's quite useless and only can use if your card throttles and cooling problems, sensors are mostly not calibrated.

 

[A&P211]

Did you carefully read the thread? The developer says it's quite useless and only can use if your card throttles and cooling problems, sensors are mostly not calibrated.

I did read it, I understood most of the comments. I read all of the comments.

 

[SPDIF]

So you can ignore it if your card works good further.

 

[A&P211]

So you can ignore it if your card works good further.

OK, will ignore it, 88C to pretty normal for a higher end laptop gpu.

 

[SPDIF]

A laptop has always higher temperatures that is normal, everything is in a closed box and small, so that explains higher temperatures. If games all play good without problems, i would not worry about it.

 

[Marcus L]

Hotspot temp is the maximum temperature reported anywhere on the GPU die over all of the sensors, as mentioned above if the card is not throttling then you are fine, I believe that it won't throttle until around 110c and again as mentioned laptops run much hotter than desktops and you won't ever get the same kind of cooling power from a laptop, that said if you are uncomfortable with it running so hot you can do a lot of things to reduce the heat output, undervolting and underclocking, setting a more aggressive fan curve, running with vsync on in games or setting a framecap, getting a laptop cooling pad are just a few

 

[Deleted member 237813]

finally some good takes on here

 

[SPDIF]

And temperatures are not calibrated, so that says enough to ignore it unless you have real problems.

 

[Zach_01]

OK, will ignore it, 88C to pretty normal for a higher end laptop gpu.

I wouldn't completely ignore it, but its not something to go crazy about it either, and let me explain

As mentioned this (GPU) Hotspot reading has usually a max operating limit of 110C.
A GPU has dozens of temp sensors across the silicon die and this particular value reports either the absolute highest one (which ever that may be on any time) or it reports an avg (aggregated) value of the most highest sensors among all of them. For example, the total count of sensors may be something like 50, 60 or even 100, and the report is maybe peaking the 10-20 highest of them (which ever those may be on any time), then makes an avg and send it out as a hotspot temp.
Its very normal (especially to gaming laptops) to see 110C on this reading occasionally and even an almost constant value of 109-110C

But...
Assuming that someone plays games often and after some of the gaming sessions.... opens the GPU-Z or HWiNFO logs (like you did) and observe what temp this hotspot usually has and what is the GPU clocks.
And after some substantial time period starting to see that Hotspot temp is always staying at 110C and GPU clocks are lower than usual.
This may indicate for example that the cooling slolution either needs cleaning or maybe is failing.

I understand that some times all this (new) info that we didnt have before can be overwhelming to a user, but I think of them as tools in my disposal to better know and understand the system's behavior and condition.
Something like this that always running in background

 

[Vya Domus]

I mean those temps are pretty terrible but it is a laptop not much that can be done about it anyway.