Hi,
I just bought a late 2015 iMac to replace my ageing 2012, and I'm a bit concerned about the temperatures the GPU is running at.
My iMac has an i7 and the m395x GPU.
I first noticed it when I was running a few oldish games - I'm not trying to run the latest, just things like Diablo 3 and WOW.
The fans spin up into action very quickly, and I can feel a lot of heat coming out the back of the iMac.
I wasn't too concerned at this point, but I decided to install iStat Menus to keep an eye on the temperatures. This is when I noticed that the GPU die was reporting a temperature of around 101 degrees C.
The strange things is that even when I run these games at lower resolutions with VSync on, the GPU still goes over 100 degrees C.
I tried installing the Heaven Benchmark to see what effect this had on the temperatures. The temperature seems to go to a similar level whether I run the benchmark on the default (medium) settings, or on ultra.
By running the benchmark 3 times in a row, the temperature touched 105 degrees C before the fans cut in a brought things down a little. Surely this is seriously hot for a GPU?
Is this normal for this GPU in the latest iMac? Can anyone else with a similar spec run the heaven benchmark and let me know what GPU temperature they're seeing please?
At the moment, I'm still in my return window and I'd like to know if this is something I should be concerned about (or not).
Thanks in advance,
Steve
I just bought a late 2015 iMac to replace my ageing 2012, and I'm a bit concerned about the temperatures the GPU is running at.
My iMac has an i7 and the m395x GPU.
I first noticed it when I was running a few oldish games - I'm not trying to run the latest, just things like Diablo 3 and WOW.
The fans spin up into action very quickly, and I can feel a lot of heat coming out the back of the iMac.
I wasn't too concerned at this point, but I decided to install iStat Menus to keep an eye on the temperatures. This is when I noticed that the GPU die was reporting a temperature of around 101 degrees C.
The strange things is that even when I run these games at lower resolutions with VSync on, the GPU still goes over 100 degrees C.
I tried installing the Heaven Benchmark to see what effect this had on the temperatures. The temperature seems to go to a similar level whether I run the benchmark on the default (medium) settings, or on ultra.
By running the benchmark 3 times in a row, the temperature touched 105 degrees C before the fans cut in a brought things down a little. Surely this is seriously hot for a GPU?
Is this normal for this GPU in the latest iMac? Can anyone else with a similar spec run the heaven benchmark and let me know what GPU temperature they're seeing please?
At the moment, I'm still in my return window and I'd like to know if this is something I should be concerned about (or not).
Thanks in advance,
Steve