Why does my laptop gpu throttle at 70 degree on my Acer swift 3 (SF314-52G)

BrianLiu

I have a mx150 on my laptop and after running games with MSI Afterburner on it is telling me I am thermal throttling at 70 degrees. Is there a way to adjust where it throttles?

Karp-Acer_Retired

See what other users have been talking about GPU throttle on Acer Swift.

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/583137/acer-swift-3-sf-314-57g-cpu-throttling-when-using-nvidia-mx250-gpu#_ga=2.86504603.2010431320.1575918800-1415186368.1563192148

WARZAZATH

I got the exact same problem on Acer swift 3 (SF314-52G), And here is the solution I found:

- Install latest drivers from nvidia (with outdated drivers it doesn't work)

- Instal Asus Gpu tweak II

- Increase the GPU throtteling temperature as shown here for example

- you can check GPU throtteling temperature as well as various other stuff about your GPU using GPU-Z

I hope this helps,

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ibrahimx

I have the same laptop. I was wondering why it's throttling at 70 celcius and I found it's because of power limiting of Acer, not due to heat. You can find further information in these pages: 

https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/throttling-on-intel-i5-8250u.266531/

https://www.ultrabookreview.com/31385-the-throttlestop-guide/

WARZAZATH

To me it looks like we have two different issues there.

As far as I understand you are talking about the CPU throttling which is quite off-topic because the issue discussed here is about GPU throttling.

And I'm pretty confident in saying that the GPU issue on my laptop (that looked ***** similar to what BrianLiu described) was indeed heat related:

- when running, the temperature ALWAYS stayed under 70°c, and in game it stayed constant at 69°c

- GPU-Z showed "therm" at "PerfCap reason" while in game

- GPU-Z showed "Current throttle limit" at 70°c, default at 94°C and min at 56°c

- after I increased the "temperature target" in asus GPU tweak II (which was set by default at 70°c) up to 90°c performances increased, and the GPU now reaches 89°c

But thanks for the hint, there may be more to tweak on that laptop, I might have a look at the CPU later on.

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