Custom graphics cards with multiple fans often hover in the 60s and 70s, even under full load, and water-cooled GPUs can run even cooler. In single-GPU systems with decent airflow, your graphics card temperatures shouldn’t wander above the 80-degree range unless you’re using a model with a single blower-style cooler, or an exceptionally powerful GPU. In desktops, however, a graphics card running at 90-plus degrees is screaming for help. Most modern chips can run at temperatures in the mid-90 degrees Celsius, though, and you’ll often see them hit those temperatures in gaming laptops. There’s no easy answer it varies from GPU to GPU. So now you know what tools can help you monitor your graphics card temperature, but numbers on a screen mean nothing without context.
It offers a clean, straightforward aesthetic and a handy mobile app for remote monitoring, but you’ll need to create an account to use CAM. If the sparse, information-dense look of those enthusiast-focused apps don’t work for you, NZXT’s superb CAM software performs the same task, even if you don’t have any NZXT hardware in your PC. HWInfo’s sensor info includes GPU temperatures and a lot more. Open Hardware Monitor also supports Linux.
HWInfo is our go-to monitoring program, because it provides a snapshot of virtually every aspect of your PC (click the Sensors icon to see temps), but SpeedFan and Open Hardware Monitor are solid options, too.
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What if you’re not a gamer or don’t care about checking your GPU temperature in-game? Then you’ll want to install hardware monitoring software that taps into your system’s temperature sensors. Read on for alternatives if you need more oomph. While we’re very glad to see the option finally included in Windows itself, third-party tools offer more robust GPU temperature options. It can also be annoying to keep Task Manager open while you’re gaming or fine-tuning an overclock. It’s a bare-bones feature, showing only the current temperature rather than tracking it over time.
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Once you’re in, simply head to the Performance tab and look for your current GPU temperature listed in the GPU section, as shown in the image above. This works only if you have the Windows Update or a newer version of Windows installed older versions lack the capability. To see how hot your graphics card is running, open the Task Manager by pressing Ctrl + Shift + Esc, by pressing Crtl + Alt + Delete and selecting Task Manager, or by right-clicking on the Windows Start menu icon and selecting Task Manager. Sure, it took 24 years, but it’s here now! Microsoft finally answered our prayers with the Windows Update, adding a GPU temperature monitoring tool in the Task Manager.
You can now find your discrete GPU’s temperature in the Windows 10 Task Manager.
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How to check your graphics card temperature Mark Hachman / IDG