Do graphics cards that consume around 300-350 watts heat up your room to a noticeable degree?
Posted by Street-Perception-85@reddit | buildapc | View on Reddit | 339 comments
Buying a used 3080 Ti as pricing is attractive in my region, but I'm concerned about the power usage, specifically how much the heat output generated by this GPU's high power usage will affect the temperature of my room over long gaming sessions. 3080 Ti's pull back a lot of power so I'm really curious as to how much heat it generates, it could deter me from buying the product outright or lead me to applying an undervolt + oc if it affects my experience to a significant to degree.
ImportanceActual2556@reddit
My monitors dump the most. But yeah. When gaming, even more heat.
-UserRemoved-@reddit
Dumping hundreds of watts of power regardless is going to heat up your room. To what degree we cant' possibly predict, as there are a million other variables such as room size, room circulation, AC cooling, open windows, etc...
A slight undervolt might save a little bit, but you're still dumping hundreds of watts of heat.
JConSc2@reddit
To elaborate, You can calculate the worst case for heat added to the room. 800 watts is like 2700 btu's an hour or so. Now im not sure how much of that energy. So Lets say your AC only serves your room and on the hotest day of the year, your cooling system is at full load. If you fire up crysis your ac wont be able to meet that load and your room temp will rise.
LimeGuyTheSlimeGuy@reddit
Man. Crysis is going to be 20 years old next year. We have got to come up with a new 'Crysis' game to meme about.
cb2239@reddit
Cyberpunk?
LimeGuyTheSlimeGuy@reddit
I was gonna say that, but you can tweak Cyberpunk well enough to run and still look good. Crysis was such a meme because you could either run it and it looked like shit, or you could struggle with it but it looked gorgeous. No inbetween.
MistSecurity@reddit
Lego Batman is the new Crysis, lol.
Snowboy8@reddit
The fact that you need a 9070 XT to play fucking Lego Batman at 1440p30 is so vile. Is it even possible to run the game at 60 without frame gen?
LimeGuyTheSlimeGuy@reddit
Lmao what on earth did they put in that one? I know for Crysis it was early Ambient Occlusion tech and some brute force Anti Aliasing methods that really tanked it.
mrn253@reddit
And dont forget they went for single core and lots of ghz instead of multi core
Riaayo@reddit
I mean multi-core wasn't all that prevalent back then was it? Plenty of shit now still doesn't take advantage of multi-core I'm pretty sure.
ywgflyer@reddit
Whatever happened to the 4th game they had under development?
mrn253@reddit
Its on hold cause of cryteks financial situation.
EetsGeets@reddit
please don't let my youth die
LimeGuyTheSlimeGuy@reddit
Neighbor, I think that ship has long since set sail.
SpitefulRedditScum@reddit
😭😭
pkinetics@reddit
Will it sous vide a steak
BlastingStink@reddit
Considering it's constant use as a benchmark, I think it's Cyberpunk now.
Culero@reddit
was about to say something similar. Like damn, that's still the metric? Or maybe he's just funnin'
ytman@reddit
This guy either HVACs or does Heat and Mass transfer.
JConSc2@reddit
A little of both , wholesale side but, the contractors and corporate made me runaway so currently figuring life out. It was alot of fun having no college degree having your contractors pull you into a call with consulting engineers. People with money that dont want to spend it turning spaces into winecellars was my nemesis. Its all math though and we would always work off of worse case. I did have an interview previously, and I job a really was interested in was selling contrelled temp boxes.Think like massive rooms that are temp and humidity controlled so someone like Boeing can make sure spec is actual spec. Or like the rooms where the substrates for processores are made.
jekpopulous2@reddit
Undervolting can make a significant difference. My 4070 Ti was pulling almost 300w out the box and running around 75°. After undervolting it pulls around 230w and runs closer to 55°. Also undervolted my CPU which now runs in the high 40’s while gaming. At stock settings my PC was a space heater... now the heat (and noise) are barely noticeable.
Pooleh@reddit
I need to try undervolting on my 4070ti rig. It absolutely heats up my office something fierce.
jekpopulous2@reddit
It draws way more power than it needs... so it's easy to undervolt and you can still overclock it. I'm running mine at 2835Mhz and boosting the RAM 800Mhz with about 20% less power than it draws at stock. It's an insanely efficient card if you take the time to fine tune it.
jetheridge87@reddit
Apples to oranges but this reminds me of the AMD Polaris cards. They stretched their performance by dumping loads of power into the cards to get that last 10-15% of performance to be more competitive (in benchmarks, etc). If you were willing to give up that 10% of FPS, you could drop power draw by 40%!!
Ryan32501@reddit
9070 and 9070XT right now. XT pulls about 40% more power for a 10% performance gain lol
mrn253@reddit
That was already the same for during the 6000 series
mrn253@reddit
You get even more out of it with limiting frames.
Street-Perception-85@reddit (OP)
300 watts on a 4070 ti is wild, was it a higher end model or something??
jekpopulous2@reddit
Gigabyte Eagle OC… it was actually the cheapest one I could find at the time. I think the TGP on it is 290 watts and the cooling is a little overbuilt for a 4070 Ti but other than that it seems pretty standard.
dpatt711@reddit
An easy way to think about it is a regular plain space heater is about 500w on low. So just use that as a frame of reference.
splepage@reddit
If it's using 300-350 Watts, it's outputting 300-350 Watts into the room as heat, there's I magic here.
ICC-u@reddit
Means you can save money on heating, so essentially gaming is free.
Steel_Bolt@reddit
What happens when its summer :(
ProxySoxy@reddit
Change your RGB lights to blue to activate cooling mode
GodsBadAssBlade@reddit
ooooooohh
pm_me_ur_side8008@reddit
I change them to white for winter mode.
Megneous@reddit
Just put GPU and AC on max. Some of us live in apartments with no electric bills. God bless Korea.
I'm basically running a miniature data center in my apartment, training language models. Heats my apartment in winter since I don't get free gas for heating, but electricity is free lol.
NamityName@reddit
Run the fans in reverse
whybethisguy@reddit
You set all your fans to exhaust so you can catch a breeze while you play.
Conpen@reddit
Resistive heating is the least cost-efficient form of home heating, so if your home typically burns gas or uses a heat pump to warm up then using the PC would cost you some money compared to letting the system handle it.
But there is entertainment value so it's still a net positive if you factor that in (or else nobody would decide gaming is worth the electricity cost).
resistivegravy@reddit
You called?
Elendils_Bear@reddit
Well you can duct the exhaust fan out the window and the magic happens outside
AndrewH73333@reddit
Without a reference point a human isn’t going to know what watts of heat feel like. It’s like 1/5th of a regular space heater or six incandescent light bulbs.
splepage@reddit
Or ~3 adults.
EetsGeets@reddit
This is inaccurate.
https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/1tb231m/comment/ole6seb/
KerbalFewl@reddit
That's not true for pc's, as the comment correctly points out.
EetsGeets@reddit
If it's consuming 300-350 Watts, it cannot be outputting that amount as heat, as it's using some (most) of that power for computation.
KerbalFewl@reddit
Computation is nothing more than transistors switching logic level, all power is consumed in them as heat while they conduct and switch.
In fact, you will output even more heat because your supply is only 90% efficient.
EetsGeets@reddit
Thank you for your correction.
https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/1tb231m/comment/oleenx2/
Conpen@reddit
All work turns into heat eventually, it doesn't matter if it's "useless work" eg resistive heating or "useful" work eg gaming or watching TV. 300W from the outlet means 300W of heat into the room no matter what the machine is doing.
Sufficient-Loan8729@reddit
my room literally has still air and its like a microwave even with just a 5060 running lol.
XiOpko@reddit
RTX 4080S and summer gaming with AC on is expensive 😃
Impossible-Switch127@reddit
Tell me about it! 4080S and 7800x3d here. I HAVE to run a window unit whenever I play in the summer or the room heats up to an uncomfortable level after 20 minutes.
XiOpko@reddit
Yep 9800X3D in my case, at least im in middle of Europe so not that brutal summers.
clever-ruse@reddit
Yeah but it's pretty manageable for me. It majorly depends on how long its under heavy load. Mine is usially running around 130-200. 300+ if it's doing alot of work.
Advanced-Device6232@reddit
I have a 7900xt it does definitely make my room a lot more hot
Sawetzgy@reddit
with my 5070ti my room goes up to the 30s (celsius) when it's summer
G_Rav@reddit
My room becomes a furnace. I live on the top most floor. Sweat like a pig. Oneplus the positive side, I got a sauna at home so my guess my skin pores stay open and clean🤣😭
MisterHole123@reddit
Yes
Healthy_Pressure7475@reddit
I recently bought a new pc with 5070ti graphics card and my room gets hot as fuck when I play games, like really hot so much that I don't play games during the day.
I don't have AC 😔
FluteGunner@reddit
I have a 4090 which is 450 watts. I have a small office. When I’m maxing a demanding game it does indeed get toasty. Great in winter, not so much in summer.
KoburaCape@reddit
Yes. It does.
NuclearReactions@reddit
My old HD6950 used to make for a toasty room and that was 200W. So yes, and if the room is small enough it really doesn't take a lot i can even feel the difference when i let my pc just idle for a few hours
GroundbreakingCow110@reddit
The thermostat in my room shows 3.5 degrees F burning through 334 watts on the GPU and roughly 80 to 90 watts on the CPU in gameplay.
Running video compilation at 4k and adding another 200 watts through the cpu, the difference can be more like 5 to 6 degrees, but that doesn't usually last very long for the personal action cam footage i play with.
deepfriedtomato1@reddit
My 9070xt boosts up to 3400mhz 330ish watts and i do not notice any heat. It depends entirely on the efficiency of the card
bruh-iunno@reddit
I sometimes fire up demanding games if I'm feeling chilly
S7relok@reddit
402W 7900XTX owner here. Yes, but at least it's more efficient that my classical heaters in winter. It heats and it makes games and AI possible
MasterAlthalus@reddit
I've got a 4080ti and a 9800x3d and my room will shoot up about 10F in around an hour if solid gaming.
I had to buy a window AC unit to keep the room cool.
Electronic_Desk_3170@reddit
my 7900xtx does draw a lot of power (400-450w) and yes it does heat my room considerably. its amazing in winter tho
CtrlAltDesolate@reddit
Depends on your PC config to what extent tbh.
For example, I recently changed from an Asus AP201 case to a Havn BF360. Fan-wise it’s 3 less 120mms but 2 more 180mms.
Because neither the GPU or CPU are getting close to the temps there were (15-20c less) and the 360mm aio for the CPU isn’t getting anywhere near as warm (gone from “that’s fairly toasty” to “can’t feel the heat an inch away”) there’s less hot air and cooler heat sources overall.
How does that link to your question? No-one can give you a definitive answer, because it’s as much to do with how hot your case allows the air to get in the first place as it is the components themselves.
Medium_Discipline578@reddit
Yeah my room heats up. You can feel the heat coming from the pc and monitor when you stand close. I either turn air on or have the ceiling fan on to cool/move the air.
haccapeliitta@reddit
I undervolt my 5070ti during summer to 200 watts and use my 9800x3d with -30 Curve Optimizer. My PC now uses about 30% less electricity while my fps has not dropped in a way that I notice maybe 5% loss.
willdouglas1809@reddit
I had a 3070ti recently, now got a 3080ti due to extra vram, and I noticed it would pour out a lot of heat when playing for a long span. Noticeable enough switching between rooms that my bedroom was incredibly stuffy. Don't have exact figures on change
SomeSortaWeeb@reddit
i have a laptop with a 1050m that noticeably warms my room up, it's not a big room but all at the same time i gotta imagine bigger cards produce more heat
slavicslothe@reddit
Depends on the room. I have ac so the temperature doesnt change at all. We also keep the house at 66.
If you are in no ac and 80 degree weather in a small room, yes it could hest things slightly.
awdrifter@reddit
Yes. I used to have a RTX3090, it heats up my room noticeably when gaming.
Anon0924@reddit
Yep. My mom opened my door today and said “Whoah, it’s like a whole different climate in here!”
Etmurbaah@reddit
I have a 5080 and brother let me tell you when playing a raw game without DLSS, my room is nothing short of a sauna. I need to bring out to fan to blow air outta room today otherwise I'll have sweaty seizures.
According_Spare7788@reddit
Yes. My old 3080, which ran at this wattage stock usually bumped up the ambient temp of my room by 1-1.5C
casualgamerwithbigPC@reddit
Absolutely.
escapefromrea1ity@reddit
My 4080 will get my room toasty without the AC running
MissingGhost@reddit
Power consumption is something I review when selecting parts. Power consumption increases the cooling needs, which also increases the noise level. Silent computing is important to me. My GPU uses 120W and my CPU 65W.
Dense_Ad7115@reddit
My 7900xt is a pretty decent space heater. My office is quite small though so I probably feel it to a greater effect. In the summer it's hard to game in there for long sessions so I switch to the PC in the living room.
resetallthethings@reddit
yeah, room size makes a big difference
I had my setup in the spare bedroom for a bit, while still a decently large room, the heat up was very noticeable.
now that it's out in the living room area which is super open to dining, kitchen, family, vaulted ceilings, don't notice it much
mrn253@reddit
Overall room volume.
I have a fucking 2,75m ceiling.
Lots of air you dont have to heat in a low ceiling room with like 2,30 or 2,40
MurdererMagi@reddit
Try ventilation with putting a box fan in open door or window this helps me
mrn253@reddit
Not really at least during the time of the year it would matter. 13m² room with 2,75m ceiling height.
But overall it also depends on how much "energy" you need for every m² in a room that needs idk 50w for every m² its way easier compared to 120w for every m²
0neRadDad@reddit
Yes I have a 3080 ti running at 410w most of the time..pc is to down to the right of me..room gets way hotter put a table fan in there trust me.
littlespedve@reddit
3090 to an undervolted 5070ti has been pretty noticeable honestly. I don't think I want another GPU that pulls more than ~200W.
UnfetteredLetters@reddit
A 4070 s will heat up a small room after about an hour and a half under load
UnfetteredLetters@reddit
Noticeably heat up*
repocin@reddit
Yes.
Perfect in the winter, less so in the summer. That's when I bring the Steam Deck out and lie down on the couch instead.
blazerMFT@reddit
I have a 5700X3D / 3080 Ti rig under my desk (directly in front of my legs/feet) and I can confirm you will immediately feel the warm air being exhausted. This rig is on 24/7 running Kryptex when idle and doubles as a streaming Sunshine server.
It's more noticeable in winter, but still noticeable in summer even when AC is up. By the way, this is already with an undervolt applied.
1yrik@reddit
my room is maybe 9x12ft and between me and my pc, it'll heat up (door closed) from ~17-18°C to 22-23°C... reference: im running a 5600x and 6700xt. normal load while gaming is probably around 250-350w for the system
superknight333@reddit
Even my laptop make my room hotter on long gaming session without AC on so yeah.
EetsGeets@reddit
Electrician here.
People keep saying that the GPU will be producing the 300-350 Watts as heat. This is not true. Heat is a waste byproduct of the work being performed by the unit. I don't know what the ratio of work:waste is from a GPU, but it's probably not the majority of the power consumed.
For the record, most electronics work this way. Heaters convert 100% of the consumed power into heat; incandescent bulbs convert about 99% into heat (the light is actually a byproduct of the filament heating up). Just about everything else is going to be well under 50% power loss to heat.
Conscious-Analyst662@reddit
That’s not true.
As a physics student, if a GPU is pulling a few hundred watts, then very nearly all of that electrical power will end up as heat eventually.
“Useful work” in a GPU is not energy leaving the system in some non-thermal form. The work is transistor switching, and that switching itself dissipates energy as heat. The fans, LEDs, and even the light and sound produced also ultimately degrade into heat in the room.
So for practical purposes, a 300–350 W GPU is also a roughly 300–350 W heater.
EetsGeets@reddit
My mistake. See my correction here.
https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/1tb231m/comment/oleenx2/
Conscious-Analyst662@reddit
Cheers
Smagjus@reddit
Props to you for correcting yourself.
EetsGeets@reddit
Hey everyone has to be wrong about something eventually. I'm just impressed it took me 32 years for it to happen hehehehe
XHNDRR@reddit
You are correct, but not for electronics. Especially microchips as they do not convert the electric energy into the work they do (switching transistors), I mean yes they do, but they are so incredibly inefficient doing so that 99%+ of the energy they take ends up as heat.
Compare them to car engines: internal combustion engines convert about 35-40% of the energy from the fuel into mechanical energy, and the rest ends up as heat, making it necessary to cool it with radiators and such. Electric car engines are way more efficient, so they produce way less heat in percentile compared to petrol engines. The most important part is that they are converting the petrol/electricity into mechanical energy, making the car move.
Microchips aren't converting the energy they take into other types of energy, as switching transistors requires so little energy. This means all of the energy that the transistor did not use to make it switch, ends us as heat energy.
So basically the energy taken is 99+% converted into heat by the transistors.
5yrup@reddit
Even then the energy you used to move the car will be converted to heat at the end of the day. The car experiences wind resistance which is friction and heats things up. The bearings and tires experience friction and warming. The brakes that stop the car take the kinetic energy of the car and convert it to heat. Every joule of energy from the gas will eventually become heat.
EetsGeets@reddit
I appreciate you taking the time to educate me.
https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/1tb231m/comment/oleenx2/
XHNDRR@reddit
It's okay I appreciate you read it! I am not an electrician or similar, and just saw some videos on how microchips work on a fundamental level. But don't take me for my word, look into it! It was a very long time ago so some information that I said could be incorrect tho
EetsGeets@reddit
What you said aligns with the reading I did from a quick search about computational power losses :)
-UserRemoved-@reddit
So if energy can't be created or destroyed, only transferred or transformed (first law of thermodynamics), then where does that 50% energy going?
So if a 300W GPU pulls 300W, and only dumps 150W of heat, where is the remaining 150W?
EetsGeets@reddit
Updated my comment. I was acting under the assumption that GPUs performed physical work like a motor or battery storage system. I have learned that GPUs function using resistance values and solid-state switching, which produce no physical or chemical changes.
Thank you for addressing this error.
5yrup@reddit
Even then all that work done by the motor will end up as heat in the room.
If you take 500J of energy from the wall to power a motor and spin a wheel, eventually that wheel will stop due to friction. That friction will result in warming. How much warming? 500J of warming.
Even the light from an LED will eventually be absorbed by something and increase its temperature slightly.
SirMaster@reddit
They do physical work. Transistors are physically moving around electrons which creates friction and thus heat.
But even if it was physical work at a larger scale, it's all heat. It's always all heat.
A fan motor that consumes 10 watts dumps 10 watts of heat into the space. Through the bearing friction, but also through air molecules bumping into each other.
EetsGeets@reddit
Hmmmmmm so am I just confusing work efficiency with total heat output?
SirMaster@reddit
Probably. All energy input becomes heat in the end, it has to.
If you put a computer in a room, and it all draws 1000w total from the wall, whether that's the transistors in the cpu/gpu, or the nand memory, or fans, or the monitor etc, every bit becomes heat.
Even the sound from the speakers is moving molecules in the air which is heat when bumping into each other. The light from the monitor is photons that when they hit the wall of the room create a tiny amount of heat.
A tiny bit of energy can go in and not become heat immediately, but eventually it still would. Capacitors or batteries can store energy that is not turned into heat right away, but this conversion stops when the capacitors are fully charged anyway which happens very fast.
snmnky9490@reddit
Even if it did physical work, that energy still transforms into the same amount of heat eventually. An electric motor consuming 100 watts in a completely sealed insulated box will heat up the contained environment the same amount as a 100 watt graphics card or literally any other device that consumes 100 watts of electricity
DeathOneSix@reddit
Where else but heat do you think the electrical energy is going? Computers are more like incandescent bulbs than you think. That's why we have all these fancy heat sinks and fans.
EetsGeets@reddit
Thank you for addressing this.
https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/1tb231m/comment/oleenx2/
Professional-Fig-134@reddit
Previously owning a 3080 ti I can say yes they will noticeably heat up your room.
N7even@reddit
I have 4090, it is mostly pulling 200-350w, unless using ray tracing, then it can hit 400-450w, it is definitely noticeable in either range.
Whenever I leave and re-enter my room, it is always way warmer.
In winter this is a good thing, summer, not so much.
Cerebral_Zero@reddit
Winter, push game to 120fps DLAA. Summer, push game to 75fps DLSS.
Dakeera@reddit
I genuinely keep myself warm in winter with my PC, and anyone that comes into my room comments on the stark difference in temperature
kevin28115@reddit
Server and 2 pc in my room. No need to heat anything else. House thermostat at 60.
EirHc@reddit
A typical decent space heater is running at like 1500 watts. So that's like 1/5th of a space heater.
Yes it will warm the room. Space heaters modulate and turn themselves off when it's above the temp you want. Your GPU will probably just run at like 100% most of the time when you're gaming. You can set frame limiting and stuff if you want your GPU to run below 100%... but like, if you're not pushing your GPU, why did you even buy it?
Guirita_Fallada@reddit
Back when i had an FX 8350 with two RX 270s, i could feel the room getting hotter.
Weneeddietbleach@reddit
Yeah. I have a 5090 and it makes me miserably hot at times (though I hate high temps as it is). I have a ceiling fan running pretty much every minute I'm home as well as a tower fan running often. I'll only really push it during the winter but otherwise I dial a lot of my settings back.
Someday, I'd like to have my own place and be able to put my PC somewhere where the heat can properly escape.
kevinisbeast707@reddit
Had a 3080 12gb that pulled 400-450w by itself plus a 5900x that was pulling about 120w in games and my room heated up a ton. Went to a 5070ti and undervolted it so now it only pulls about 230w and a 7800x3d which usually sits under 80w. It’s noticeably cooler in my room. I was able to set my 3080 to 70% power limit with an oc and I retained about 90% of the performance with about a 275w power draw. Was also able to set my 5900x to the 65w eco mode in asus’s bios which had a negligible performance penalty in most games.
MaineMan1234@reddit
Yes in the winter I will run FoldingAtHome overnight (donating my 5080’s time for science research) and it keeps my office nice and toasty for the morning when I get up and start working
Phuzion73@reddit
Yes, you now have a mild space heater.
Brave-Ad-7460@reddit
I noticed that my room will get hot when playing palworld, I haven’t played much else but there is definitely a difference, I’m thinking about getting my portable a/c unit going when playing certain games, I’m running a rx 9060xt
Andromeda-G@reddit
I jave 3070Ti and heats up alot. But not really do amy noticable power by HVAC
Kind of 0.3kwh extra for 3 hours
nuclearboy197@reddit
The short answer is yes.
SoloMobilGaming@reddit
Yes 100%, I have my PC on a decent space about 4x4m 3.5m high, with a huge opening to the rest of the house, so it's not a close room, and the PC is next to a window, after 4+ hours that "room" is significantly hotter than the rest of the house, now not so much because I use a heavy UV and only pulling about 200w, before that my 3080 was using 340w all the time going up to 85°C, now just 200 - 220w and 58°C
PhoenixLord55@reddit
I have a loft and yes it gets hot but i also have a 5090 so its probabpy using a lot more then 350 watts
Aranxi_89@reddit
Sure does.
In the winter, it's nice as it helps keep your room toaster, but during the summer...
Hairy-Owl-7449@reddit
Yes, very much so depending on the airflow of the room (pc airflow doesn’t really matter with respect to the room temp).
speadskater@reddit
Energy is consumed as heat.
ramanmono@reddit
Yes, you gonna need good ventilation or even better AC.
zarco92@reddit
Yes, it's noticeable if you don't have AC or at least ventilation from an open door and window.
I have a 3080 and during summer I need to turn the AC on for gaming sessions. During the winter it's a perk tho.
topselection@reddit
I lived in an apartment without AC a few years ago and when UE5 came out, it was unusable because of how hot it made my living room. That's when I decided I'm getting off the latest gaming rig bus after all these decades.
I've moved to boomershooters and other low demand games until power consumption is improved. We don't need to strain the power grid and destroy the climate for nanite and lumen.
Hate_Manifestation@reddit
yeah running my 3080 in the summer will raise the temperature in the room by about 5C.. gets pretty brutal since I don't have AC in that room.
itsforathing@reddit
Todd Howard: its a feature, not a bug
UngodlyPain@reddit
Yes... Like your standard little space heaters are typically 600-1200 watts... So yeah if you have a 100w CPU, a 300w GPU, and such? Youre most of the way to a space heater in terms of wattage.
Applying an undervolt can help a bit, maybe take your 300w GPU down to say 200-250w.
Stuff like this is why random tech channels like LinusTechTips and JayzTwoCents have done videos on heat management of gaming set ups, like off the top of my head Linus has a video where they put one of their gaming computers in an indoor grow tent, that had a warm air exhaust to exhaust the hot air, outside to make the small gaming room, less hot.
adanceparty@reddit
Yes. My 3080ti made my room hot af.
Mobile-Way1383@reddit
I have a 10x12 office in my home. My 9070xt at 360w will warm the room significantly. I need to open a window in the winter time if the door is closed, and it's a corner office.
RamsDeep-1187@reddit
Yes
Loendemeloen@reddit
I live in a modern well insulated house and sitting in my room gaming I can easily heat it from like 20 degrees celcius to 24 or even 25. Pc's are space heaters.
BoltActionPiano@reddit
Watts = heat. Pretty much every american room heater on max is 1500 watts. If you add up your CPU plus your GPU and add like 20% and get 800 watts, then it will feel like someone's got a room heater on at 1/2 power. That's a lot...
I don't think you can make a ton of difference by undervolting or overclocking much, things are mostly at max power these days. And the better GPU probably consumes less power to output a given FPS, but whether or not you turn up your settings will determine if it actually consumes the higher power on the sticker.
I don't think you should base your purchase decision based on the heat thing. We're talking maybe 100 watts max maybe. So, like 1/8th of a difference. Made up by tuning settings / fps cap.
kg215@reddit
Yes any desktop PC with a powerful GPU like the 3080 Ti will heat up a room. I've actually owned a portable AC for many years and the PC is one of the main reasons for it.
hitman0187@reddit
Great card, but yes pumping 300+ watts will generate heat and the bedroom does get toasty in the summer. After a while you get used to it and just deal with the heat.
I undervolt and reduce power limit to 70-75% and its still toasty at 250 watts.
Great in the winter though!
itchygentleman@reddit
theyre little heaters.
PRC_Spy@reddit
We don't have central heating at home, just a wood burner and small space heaters if it actually gets cold. A common situation in NZ. Our bit of North Island doesn't really get cold enough for long enough to fuel desire to spend up on more heating. But that means my study does run colder than the living room.
Until I turn on the PC —it takes any chill out of the room after an hour or two of running. Small room, reasonably powerful PC does work as space heating. But then again, perhaps I need a more efficient PSU?
Sneaky_Doggo@reddit
My computer outputs 1200W at full capacity lmao it gets sweltering
Domaik@reddit
From my own experience using a 2070 super in a tiny room in a mountain village where temperatures are often very low: no. It doesn't. The room is very small and even while gaming for hours the computer doesn't noticeable heat the room.
ButterscotchNo3984@reddit
For sure, if you are in a hot climate especially. I find even a PS5 running ray traced games will make the room warm.
Orschloch@reddit
If waste heat is a concern, rather go with a 4000 or 5000 series RTX.
5yrup@reddit
There really isn't much of a difference between an electric coil space heater and a computer except the coils are far more intricately designed so it makes cool flashing pictures on a screen. A lot of regular space heaters in the US will be like 1,000-1,200W or so. The amount of heat is linear, so a 500W computer running at full tilt will be putting out about half as much heat as a 1,000W space heater. 500W \~= 1,700BTU/hr.
itsforathing@reddit
Computers are space heaters that also do math
OolonCaluphid@reddit
And the heat is them discarding all the incorrect answers.
itsforathing@reddit
So the 14900ks and Rtx 5090 makes the most incorrect answers?
OolonCaluphid@reddit
It discards the wrong answers fastest yes.
itsforathing@reddit
It’s inaccurate, but faster
EetsGeets@reddit
I think your estimations are misleading.
https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/1tb231m/comment/ole6seb/
autobulb@reddit
This is the best way to visualize it if you have any experience with electric heaters. Depending on the heater you get some may operate at 500W on low, and 1000W on high. Some do 750W on low and 1500W on high. It's usually a certain amount that is doubled because it will have two heating elements that each use up the same amount of energy. I have had an electric oil heater that did 1000/2000W before but I rarely ever used it because of how much energy that uses.
If you don't have any experience with those types of heaters then subjectively we can just say that 500W and less is considered to be a small and low powered heater. Something you might keep under the desk near your legs to keep a small space warm. 1000W might heat up a room over time and 2000W is pretty much on the upper end because of the electrical system in 110V countries. 2000W will get pretty damn hot and can heat up a room quickly, or even a larger room.
At 300W for your GPU and another 100 for your CPU and other components, it's basically a small space heater. But it's not too much heat that it cannot be mitigated by fresh air or AC.
Jennymint@reddit
Yes. It's definitely hotter in my office than in my living room. Most noticeable during summer.
JinTheWindMSTR@reddit
ive had the 3080ti since december last year and had a 2080 before that and i dont notice any difference
PermissionJaded5510@reddit
3080 Ti is arguably one of the hottest cards in temp wise
The0ld0ne@reddit
Temperature of the card doesn't mean anything, it'll be the total power consumption that is important for how much heat is being put into the room
boshbosh92@reddit
Yes, if you have a smaller room your pc will absolutely heat up. I had a 13900k and a 5070ti and it was literally a mini space heater. My cat loves laying on the top of the pc. But it gets hot in my room after an hour or so of gaming.
greenskye@reddit
In my small office, playing a game is equivalent to turning on a pretty effective space heater. It'll easily heat the room 5-10 degrees in an hour or so. Sometimes that's desirable, most of the time I have to crack a window or turn up the AC.
WATAMURA@reddit
Depends on the size of the room, airflow, and load.
It's not a mystery... simply look at the temperature specs, rather than trying to calculate Watts.
RTX 3080 Ti GPU 30°C–50°C (86°F–122°F)
The CPU creates just as much heat too...
Any system will for sure heat up a small room with no airflow. If you have a window open and house fan blowing, then not so much. If in a big room and A/C even less.
I live in Hawaii and have a 5800X, RTX 3080 Ti in a 4000D Airflow with AIO CPU cooler and 6 high CFM fans.
When gaming for several hours I can feel heat coming off the the top and back, as expected. I have windows open and a room fan, so the warm air is not noticeable. If I closed the windows and curtains, turned off the room fan, I would obviously get warmer, as expected... Since I just created a hotbox.
TraditionalWord2882@reddit
I have a 1000w build and I must say, it's unbearable in my office. Outside it's 10c and inside 29c to 31c (up to 33c when gaming)
w1n5ton0@reddit
Yes, which is one of the reasons I have a 14,000 BTU window unit in my small bedroom that keeps it 50F
Plenty-Industries@reddit
Yes. Anything that uses power, will generate heat. The more power it consumes, the more heat is dumped into the room.
How much power it consumes is a direct correlation to how much heat gets put into the room over time.
I had a 3080Ti - it will make a room nice and warm. My house has zoned A/C system and on this side of the house, I have to turn the A/C temp down 2-3 degrees from the rest of my house because when I'm gaming on my PC, the 3080Ti was peaking at 400-420watts when playing Cyberpunk at 4K with DLSS and RayTracing.
That 400-420watts is from an overclock and an undervolt.
I eventually stopped with the overclock since the benefit wasn't there, as 30-series wasn't very good at overclocking other than on VRAM and the overall performance benefit wasn't enough to justify the extra heat load. Undervolting marginally helped as well... I managed to get power consumption to around 280watts...but thats still a good amount of heat because the PS5 uses about that much power too (around 200-300 watts depending on the game).
If you want something thats more power efficient, you'd want to look into the 40-series which introduced much better efficiency with overall improved performance.
Toastti@reddit
They heat up the room the exact same as a 300-350 watt space heater would
EetsGeets@reddit
This is not true.
https://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc/comments/1tb231m/comment/ole6seb/
curvedmanifolds@reddit
Physics is hard I know
minos-and-v1-kissing@reddit
Well, it’ll be roughly equivalent to a 300-350 watt space heater. If that helps at all.
You will need to open a window for sure, but maybe not if you undervolt.
aSwedishDood@reddit
I definitely feel the room getting hotter when my PC is on during the already hot summers
I hate it
SecondVariety@reddit
Yes. Even a gaming console and TV heat up the space around them. Watts is heat output. In their own way each device is a space heater. Gpus are often little blowdryers, or at least they were back in the multi gpu mining era with mostly blower style coolers.
My main build has a 3090, it heats up my room quickly. I do not game without opening a nearby window and putting a fan in it for most of the year.
06gto@reddit
My 3090 keeps my room nice and toasty lol.
esaule@reddit
yes!
pattperin@reddit
My 3080ti definitely will heat a small room up. That’s just the way she goes
EscaOfficial@reddit
Yes
One_Wolverine1323@reddit
yeah it does I need to keep a fan on to circulate air from my window. I can feel a warm spot in my room near the case if I dont keep the fan on while gaming.
Socializandopa@reddit
Yes, actually. It can be quite noticeable depending on your setup, consumption and room. Never bothersome. Just noticeable.
PerfectAssistance212@reddit
Well, during heating season or summers in my country, my room(5m²) can heat up to 36.8 C°
Kurtista@reddit
I have a 3090 and that thing heats my apartment up and is loud! I havnt tried undervolting but after installing afterburner or similar program I just force it to run with a heat target like 70-75
sHoRtBuSseR@reddit
My computer makes the room literally unbearable. If a computer uses 600 watts, like 599.5 watts of that is expelled directly as heat.
sart49@reddit
Yes, a lot actually. it was the main reason to get AC in my room (AC is kind of a luxury in my country).
Between my PC (RTX 4080), monitor and TV, the room becomes unbereable during summer.
NssW@reddit
I have my PC in a small room…after playing a game it gets hot.
And I have the same gpu from Evga
kakemone@reddit
Yes. They do. VERY VERRY NOTICEABL! I really miss the old normal days when hardware was efficient
-UserRemoved-@reddit
I don't think you understand how this all works...
kakemone@reddit
Please comment for hardware you personally used!
Clearly you haven’t touched a 3080 TI. Consumption is far greater than a normal 3080 and it heats like crazy. This and the 6900XTX are by far the worst cards that I have used as far as consumption and heat.
Extremely unoptimized to achieve minimal clock speed gain.
And I do understand how this all works. But cheers.
-UserRemoved-@reddit
I can comment on whatever I want
Here's a picture of my 3080Ti my PC
https://imgur.com/a/uv-kxUaa15
Well no shit, it's the same GPU but pushed further. That's like saying a Honda Civic SI has lower gas mileage as a Honda Civic, it's literally tuned that way, that's the entire point.
https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/nvidia-ga102.g930
Consumption and heat here are basically the same mate, that's the point of this post
LOL when you begin to reach the limits of silicon, then the power required is exponentially higher. This has been the case since the beginning of silicon. You don't understand what unoptimized means, or the silicon lottery.
No, you don't. Efficiency is how much work you can do with how much power. Modern hardware, using the same amount of power, can do far far more work as improvements to lithography, architecture, and manufacturing process have greatly improved.
You're comparing 2 GPUs, the same ones in fact, and calling the one that's clocked higher as inefficient. You don't seem to understand that. You missing the old days only proves this, because it used to take A LOT more power to do a lot less work.
The fact that modern GPUs can pull 300W is because we have improved efficiency to the point where power supplies, cables, PCBs, and cooling can allow for 300W of power.
So yea, if you do know what you're talking about, then your wording is entirely wrong then. It's one or the other.
Master-Pick-7918@reddit
I ran an Radeon 9800 on a 300W PSU and it made the room hot.
So yes your specs could result in additional heat. Do you have A/C? That will help but you may need to ventalate the room.
flooble_worbler@reddit
My 3070 does a great job heating my room in winter. Really saves on heating oil
saltysalts1@reddit
I have a 3090 with a 4k oled tv that I game on sometimes. When both are on at the same time and a demanding game is running, I start cooking alive.
6950X_Titan_X_Pascal@reddit
a big room / small room , with air conditioner on / off , makes huge diffs
SauronOfRings@reddit
Yes, noticeably so. Great in Winters and undervolt in summer.
DarkFantom25@reddit
If you don't have an open window or door, yeah you'll notice the temperature difference for longer gaming sessions. Think of how much heat comes off a typical space heater (usually ~1500W), just your GPU will heat your room like a heater running at 20%, and that's not counting other components.
quantonamos@reddit
Have mine undervolted to 200-250 watts e sport gaming, but even still Yes, your room will always heat up if circulation and fresh air is insufficient
n3ilg4mer1@reddit
Yes my rx7900xt does when I play in 4k. Not so much if I stick to 1080p.
yick04@reddit
Yes. My office is on the top floor of my house which already gets hot, and my 5080 absolutely makes it worse.
Interesting-Music439@reddit
I went from an EVGA 3080 12gb hybrid to a 5070ti for exactly this reason as the room I was in at that time was 10x12. The 3080 itself stayed very cool thanks to the aftermarket EVGA cooler I had on it but pumped out ridiculous heat to do so. After about an hour of gaming on max settings, the room became unbearably hot. While the 5070ti runs warmer at the actual gpu due to it having basic air cooling, the room itself still heated up but it was a much longer process. Eventually just moved everything to the basement with enough open area that either card would work. Ive been debating dropping the 3080 back in as the only real difference is the wattage in practical applications.
Fuzzy_Yossarian@reddit
Not as much as the sun does.
WooHooWarfare@reddit
Im on 9800x3d ,5080, and triple 32" monitor for my simrig. So yeah, im on sauna everyday 🤷🤣
WooHooWarfare@reddit
Im on 5080 with triple 32 monitor for my simrig. So yeah, im on sauna everyday 🤣
skyj420@reddit
Yes. You bet. I’ve an exhaust from the back of the PC to the kitchen (with the master exhaust out of the house). rtx 4080.
Zuokula@reddit
Yes they do. Here cold winters and needed woolly socks usually. Until I upgraded my 8600k/1660ti machine to 7800x3d/7800xt nitro+.
belowambient1971@reddit
That convection has to go somewhere
PlzDntBanMeAgan@reddit
Yup it absolutely does. My son has a 14700k and 5080 and it makes the entire upstairs like a sauna.
Stunning-Oil-6391@reddit
It depends on your room temperature and region where you live, also your GPU isn't going to run its full power at all time, it drops down to 40-50W only when idle.
SirThunderDump@reddit
For context, my microwave oven is 1000W at full power. A 350W graphics card is like having 1/3 of a microwave oven’s heat pumped into your room constantly.
I used to run a 3080ti in a small, enclosed office. Total system draw was just under 600W. It was a total oven. The AC vent couldn’t keep up without freezing the rest of the house. I played games in my underwear in that room in the summer, and opened the window in the winter.
Moved my setup to the garage with a dedicated AC unit. No more issues now.
Numerous-Loan-8008@reddit
Chances are that yes, you'll notice it. Maybe even a lot.
Really depends on how good your air circulation is, how high your ceilings are, if you like running your ceiling/tower fan, if you're willing to put an air mover at your door, etc.
Captainxannath@reddit
If I shut the door to my man cave, and game for 8 hours. It will go from 68F to 80F. I now leave my door cracked. This is with a 5800x3d and a 3080 12gb.
Jhoonis@reddit
I think it would be more feasible to adapt the room to the temperature change, unironically. I have a 3060 and in the summer my room feels like an air fryer, graphically demanding games become unattainable at some times of the day.
SiccmaDE7930@reddit
I went from a 3090 running mostly mid 80s Celsius. 9070xt now under similar power draw has never went above mid 50s. I think the 30 series just runs hot as hell regardless in my experience.
surfer_ryan@reddit
Work from my room with a ryzen 9 7900x (overclocked and usually at about an avg of 5.2 GHz) an aio cooler and a Radeon 7800xt and I want to say a 1000watt psu.
My room is constantly a couple degrees hotter than the rest of my house.
bblzd_2@reddit
Even a 100W gaming laptop heats up a room so yes, most definitely.
Power consumption = heat.
AceLamina@reddit
Use to have a 2070 super that ran at 230W, not much of an issue, Got a 5070ti and overclocked it to run at 300W and same thing
This was also in my small college dorm
How hot your room depends on your room's cooling and the amount of power your PC generates, my room was small but had good cooling still
Traherne@reddit
Definitely. On the other hand, my PC is a great weight loss machine.
Blue-150@reddit
At 275w I don't notice a temp change. I'm in a conditioned basement and came from a 225w prior so it also depends on what you have now. The difference from 0 to 300w would be more noticable than say 250 to 300w.
donjoncena@reddit
My pc sits in a small room (around 11 sqm) and I live in Denmark. When I game, I have had to turn off my heater (or open the windows) or else my room gets noticeably hot in a few hours. I have a 3090 + 5950x.
s0ciety_a5under@reddit
I remember back in the day, I used to use my pc as a personal leg heater in the winter.
itsforathing@reddit
Computers are space heaters that also do math. A pc that draws 500-600w will heat up the air around it and will be noticeable in a room sized space.
NamityName@reddit
About as much as a tiny, desk-sized 350W space heater*
*Assuming it is always consuming that much power which is not common. Most consumer grade computer hardware is not consuming their listed power usage most of the time. That power number is the maximum sustained draw. It is the amount of power that needs to be available. It is also the amount of heat that needs to be moved to keep the part cool.
Shishamylov@reddit
A standard electric heater is 1500watts. So yes, your PC will put out 1/4 of that effectively as a space heater if it’s 375 watts overall, probably closer to 1/3 if you include all of the components to be around 500w
LoganHowlett1832@reddit
Yes
Saizou@reddit
I have a 4080, so not a complete monster of a card, but still strong, and yes, it does heat up the room.
penguinpower81@reddit
My computer is like having a space heater in the winter.
Ryzen 9 5900XT Radeon 9070XT 9 HDD spinners 1 SSD 1 NVME 1200 watt Montech PSU
CuileannA@reddit
The air that comes out the back of my PC is colder than the air in the room, I have the AMD 9070
WheelOfFish@reddit
They put 300-350 watts of heat in your room. Computers are just space heaters that do math. Considering even a 100W lightbulb of yore could increase the temperature noticeably in a small room, the answer is typically going to be "yes" every time.
Texasaudiovideoguy@reddit
Oh yeah! I have a 4090 and I have to build an exhaust system that pulls the air out of the top of my pc and runs through a short tube to my attic. I got an inline fan from ac infinity and it does a good job. All air gets pulled in the bottom and out the top. I have literally taped up all other openings.
cardrosswinston@reddit
Yes. Very quickly in a small room
Offline86@reddit
I can give you some numbers.
Room temp: 22° My presence changes the temperature by +1° My PC(*) changes the temperature by +2° to +3° Room temp + human + pc: 25-26°
* My entire water cooled rig consumes around 350 Watts (9800 X3D, RTX 3090 UV) under load. While playing Cyberpunk 2; max settings; dlss quality; temps are 40° CPU, 43° GPU hotspot, 45° case.
Hollowsong@reddit
1000% yes.
It's a sauna in my room in the summer, even with the doors open and AC on, because of my PC.
In the winter though it's nice and comfortable.
Serious_Newspaper823@reddit
If i use my 9070xt under full load (330W), i doubles as a space heater.
TheCarrot007@reddit
Same, room with computer is about 4 degrees C above the others on the floor.
(Room also has 2 laptops which probably add a little bit 2, and 2 other computers whgich may of may not be on, they are not on the athe current 4 degrees difference)
Ghost1eToast1es@reddit
Yes. The smaller the room, the more it’ll heat up. I moved to a place that was bigger overall but had a smaller office and it gets noticeably warmer. Keep in mind though that this is under load though. A gpu that’s idling won’t heat up much. If you’re the type to leave a game running all day though you’ll notice a huge difference.
Different-Produce870@reddit
Absolutely. I just upgraded to a 3060 from a 1660 super and the difference was very noticeable
TrollOnFire@reddit
Yes
Puiucs@reddit
even the monitor itself will give off enough heat to affect room temps.
Demokrates@reddit
My living room gets warmer, yes. Not so bad in winter. I play on a 65 inch TV as well - I think it heats the room up even worse than the PC.
Steel_Bolt@reddit
Yes absolutely. It really depends on your HVAC and other conditions. I have my computer upstairs and it gets normally hotter up there because the sun bakes it all day. I fire up my 7900XTX + 9800x3D build and within about 20-30 minutes the room temperature is already up a couple degrees. Its great in the winter but sucks so hard in the summer.
BlownCamaro@reddit
Added 5+ degrees to my already hot room. So hot I cut a hole in the wall and installed a dryer vent and tubing that dumped it into the hallway! Yes, it worked.
forogtten_taco@reddit
Yes. Your computer is a near 100% efficient space heater.
Nearly every watt of electricity that it "consumes" leaves you computer into your room as heat. Heat from the vent fans, heat from the monitor.
You notice it the most in the summer when your running a "space heater" all the time to play games. In winter its actually quite nice.
selinemanson@reddit
Yes, I was surprised by the difference myself. Though since undervolting my 3080ti the temps dropped by about 5 or 6 degrees which doesn't sound like much but as global warming has shown us can make a big difference.
necheffa@reddit
It's so bad that an extended session will actually cause my furnace to not kick on as the thermostat registers the waste heat. Need to be careful otherwise the extremities of the house won't get adequately heated.
djddanman@reddit
I have a 3080Ti with an i5-9600k, and my system does make the room noticeably warmer during prolonged gaming. That room is also on the opposite side of the house from the AC which is already a bit weak, and my PC is mounted under my desk which probably helps trap the heat around my legs.
Ancient_Plate275@reddit
I life without AC and yeah, my RX 7900XT heats things up pretty quick.
I have a dormer window and just moved my pc in there. It's about 30" nook with a window at the end. I picked up a window vent fan that blows air out. My case vents heat out the back and top panels. Lowered temps about 10° F in my room. Just waiting on extra long DP/USB cables to I can clean up wires I have running straight to monitors.
Apprehensive-Cap-284@reddit
I have 3080ti and can tell u that without ac in same room you will cook over the summer. In the winter u dont need to heat the space.
Hrmerder@reddit
Yes... 3080 12gb owner here. They are efficient at pulling heat, but brother, this shit runs hot... It's the only real downside of using it IMHO. They are amazing cards and very very relevant today, but I hope your room is nice and cool... Cause you are going to need it.
Lorre_murphy@reddit
Yeh our home office is the warmest room in the house, i dry my washing in there 😂
JohnyCrowley@reddit
Go for 4000 series they are more efficient
Nearby-Froyo-6127@reddit
Short answer? Yes.
Ianmd9@reddit
I can’t speak for every brand out there, but I had a Gigabyte 3080ti and that thing got EXTREMELY HOT. It was my first build so I thought the fans running at full speed constantly was normal. At some point my psu started making a coil whine noise and eventually popped. Got that replaced, then my gpu started making noise, and then it burned itself up… I was like 10 days away from my warranty expiring and got it replaced. They sent me back a 4070ti super which performs basically the same and I can actually touch it without getting burned.
All that to say, my room got very hot with my 3080ti.
LuckAffectionate8440@reddit
Yes, my 2080 super and Core i7 would have a noticable effect on the temperature of my office depending on what I was playing and the season. I always wanted to investigate venting the heat outside somehow but I didn't want to put holes in my wall 😂
Thillius@reddit
My watercooling loop with rysen 9 & 3090 dumps a fair bit of heat out when gaming. Got to open the window after an hour usually, or it’ll get pretty hot in the room.
Gaddy@reddit
I have a 3080 in a 10x10 bedroom. It takes about 10 minutes of gaming before I turn on the mini split ac. Ambient is like 80F typically.
BillionaireBear@reddit
4090 heats up my immediate area, like 3x3ft space. Outside of that it’s ambient room temp. Annoying on a summer day but I open my window or turn a table fan on. Undervolting is a big help
scr33ner@reddit
Yes. I have a 3080ti. If I play an hour of BF without cross ventilation, the room gets hot even with AC.
manzurfahim@reddit
I borrowed a RTX 3080 card to test how Doom TDA works. It played very smooth at 4K, but the card was constantly at around 82c or something, and my room warmed up 3c more than usual after an hour of gameplay. I then gave the card back, and played Doom at 1440p with my 4060 Ti, which runs pretty cool considering.
F1T_13@reddit
Depends on the temp really. But yeah kinda it can after a few hours with no fan or window open. I use mine as a heater and if it gets too hit then opening the door for a few mins resets it.
SexyJesus123@reddit
My computer room is always hot. It's nice in the winter, but absolutely sucks in the summer. We have two computers running almost constantly all day.
Best_Position4574@reddit
My house sits at around 10c - my computer room maybe 12c after hours of games. 3080.
Jenkinswarlock@reddit
Okay so I live in the basement and I have an i9-10850k with a 4090, when I had my window covered up to keep out the light my room would become noticeably hotter than the rest of the basement, I took down the stuff covering the window and my computer temps dropped like 4-6C, I don’t even have the window open; just having the heat transfer with the window closed is already incredible, I can’t wait for winter to open the window, but when I am encoding for hours on end it becomes hotter in the room but maybe that’s just placebo
ItyBityGreenieWeenie@reddit
Yes, it would be like a small space heater (typically 1200 watts) on low.
ArseholeryEnthusiast@reddit
I person roughly puts 100 watts in a room. So imagine 3 people in said room. In a small room with bad air circulation that's significantl. However your PC doesn't give off c02.
PallBallOne@reddit
Im watercooling a system that typically runs at a peak of 300w even if the system is idle and temps are fairly low, it is constantly pumping warm air into my room
katzengoldgott@reddit
Last summer when we briefly hit 38°C here in Germany, I didn’t turn my PC on at all since we don’t have AC here in many residential buildings.
And that was with only my 3060, who is now joined by a 5060 Ti in a dual GPU setup…
Well I just hope we don’t get a heatwave that lasts longer than 2 days otherwise my PC is gonna stay off for the time and I have to befriend my new MacBook in the meantime I guess lol
Akiraooo@reddit
A space heater on low uses about 750watts.
So 350 watts from the gpu + other wattage will mean your computer is running at about 450 to 500 watts while gaming.
Then add in the heat from your monitor.
Yes, your gaming rig is basically a space heater on low.
bp1976@reddit
I have a 5090 that is undervolted and usually pulls around 300w while gaming. Long sessions result in about a 5 degree fahrenheit temp increase in my room.
During the summer I usually stop gaming an hour or two before bedtime to give my room time to cool off.
Explosivpotato@reddit
My wife and I both have 5090 rigs in the same small game room. It takes about 35 minutes of Overwatch before that room hits 85F if we don’t keep the door open.
Scale that to your setup, our machines are putting out \~750-800W each, so for your 350W rig it will have a much less noticeable effect, on the order of 1/4 of the heat rise.
audigex@reddit
Yes
The energy used almost entirely turns into heat, so if your computer is using 300-400W total then it’s almost exactly the same as having a heater in the room with the same power rating
SirOutrageous1027@reddit
Yes. I had a small office at home. It had a high ceiling, a fan, and AC, but if I kept that door closed the room would get noticeably warmer when gaming.
Yurgin@reddit
Yes atleadt my room gets very hot with a Ryzen 9 5900x + a 7900XT GPU. It is noticeable
Global-Page-7091@reddit
I play in a small(ish) 12x12 office. Due to my living situation the door has to stay closed most of the time. After a few hours of running games that don’t even stress my gpu the room is warmer. Considerably more so if I’m running something graphically intensive.
People call them space heaters for a reason
VersaceUpholstery@reddit
My 3080 is a space heater in my tiny room with no A/C in west coast weather
Amazing to have in the winter though
EnlargedChonk@reddit
humans output about 80-100w or so just sitting around. Would having an extra 3-4 people in your room heat it up a noticeable degree? Of course that's only when you are actually using that much power, and don't forget the rest of your system... Your monitors, speakers, CPU, ram, hard drives, waste heat from the PSU, even just the mobo itself all add up.
In a smaller room it can easily be not just noticeable but annoying during warmer seasons.
Erikkman@reddit
Yes. The 3080TI runs very hot, hotter than its successor cards. Also be ready for it to be noisier than what you are probably used to.
ebkitties@reddit
Yes
ShallNtb@reddit
My 5070ti heats my room much faster than my 3060ti did.
Sunlit_Neko@reddit
Yes. Even my laptop heats up my room and it has a mobile etc 5060
Stormwatcher33@reddit
Oh yeah it does
brosecuervo7@reddit
I have a 4080 withe a 9800x3d pc and a 9070XT with a 7700x (wife’s pc) in the same room. During our gaming sessions in the summer it gets toasty. If I run our 12k BTU window AC unit at the same time, it trips the breaker within the hour. In the winter, it can heat up the whole upstairs lol.
PCs get warmmmm
GolldenFalcon@reddit
Bro I have a 1080 and that already heats up my room more than the AC can handle and the 1080 eats like 180 W.
twisty77@reddit
Yeah I have a 9070xt and my room is noticeably warmer when gaming with the graphics card. During summer it makes the room legit almost too warm
lichtspieler@reddit
IMHO owning high-end/wattage gaming hardware and actually using it for hours are two very different things when it comes to room temperature, cooling challenges, and noise.
Some people consider a 15-minute session with low CPU/GPU utilization to be "normal gaming".
=> low wattage for a short duration, so even high-end hardware has little impact on room ambient temperature.
Others* might consider several hours of gaming with high or near-max hardware utilization to be normal.
(* People who fully utilize their hardware? )
=> even a 200W GPU (2070 Super / 2080 class) can push total sustained system power to \~350W, which is enough to noticeably heat up a small room over a few hours.
With 350W, 450W, or 600W GPUs, that effect just happens much faster.
The impact on room temperature ( cooling noise, component thermals, airflow requirements, and overall cooling performance ) heavily depends on both usage intensity and session duration.
MikasaH@reddit
My gpu without turning on an external fan makes my room about 83 F, higher in the summer. During the winter / colder times it becomes a perk.
Proof_Scene_9281@reddit
Have a 4 inch exhaust fan connected to the case blowing the heat out the window.
4 x 3090’s get warm sometimes.
andy10115@reddit
Room size and ambient temp are a big factor but yes. You will eventually notice lol.
Undervolting can help though, but it only delays it, not fix it.
PsychologicalGlass47@reddit
Absolutely. My P6k is one of the 600W monsters and takes my room up from 19C to 23~24C under load. I used to have a 5090 alongside it, but it did little to nothing more and both choked out the P6k and added to the heat itself.
beirch@reddit
How much 300-350W heats up a room depends on the size of the room.
My old bedroom was ~60 sqft, and even a 200W GPU heated it up significantly in 1-2 hours. My new bedroom is ~130 sqft, and a 300W GPU takes over 3 hours to heat it up to the point it feels noticeably warmer. And it never gets as warm as my old, smaller room.
libertyfox@reddit
Just last week I switched from my 3080ti to a 5080. The 3080ti would def heat up my room when gaming pretty quick. Manageable if the door was open though.
Falafel-Wrapper@reddit
It was noticeable on systems i ran in the 90s...
4shish042@reddit
I have an rtx 3080 and my room temp is around 30-31°C. On heavy usage, it raises the temp by 1-2°C but if I open the window or door it drops down to around 30°C.
Joshlo777@reddit
I have a 3080 and 5800x. My computer is in a small bedroom that I turned into an office. I find that running my computer heats up the room by about 3 degrees C. Maybe a bit more when gaming.
ripnetuk@reddit
Yes. I recently moved from a house with no double glazing to one that has it, and my 5070ti is like a little space heater now. Before the leaking through the window seemed to mitigate it.
The entire PC is chucking out 400-500w, so its like a quarter of my actual electric heater.
I had to buy some more fans as it was crashing.
Eat-Playdoh@reddit
Fuck yeah, I gotta blast the AC in the summer. It's nice in the winter though.
MultiMarcus@reddit
Yes, but it isn’t a huge problem. My 4090 could definitely heat my room noticeably but I cap frame rates to avoid pushing it to the max where the chip runs much more efficiently.
Super_Needleworker79@reddit
I confirm, while gaming on 3080 12gb I had the window open and everytime I went to the toilet I left the balcony open to exchange the air.
My leather chair was sticking to my back which was very unpleasant.
People say that changing to a new generation card is not worth it etc. But the cooler room temperature was worth it for me.
Jimboz007@reddit
Absolutely! My 7800x3d/4080 super rig will bring my office to 80 degrees from 72 in under an hour if I don't have a door or window open. I usually have a fan running to cool the area when that happens. The whole system is pulling about 450 watts at full load.
FranticBronchitis@reddit
Yep, it will, and you need to keep your case's airflow in mind too. Might want to throw in some new fans
Diligent_Pie_5191@reddit
I have a large basement so I don’t notice it at all.
gffftgdft455@reddit
Yes. 220w is noticeable.
WizardMoose@reddit
My computer is a heater in my room. I turn on the AC when its 50F outside because my room gets so hot. Now it doesn't help that I have 2 rigs in there. One is usually doing render work so the GPU is always going, and if I'm gaming on the other rig at the same time. It makes my room feel like its 75F at least.
PearlJamTenGoat@reddit
lol honestly, if you are worried about a graphic card consuption just don't buy it. This is laughable.
Insufferable_Entity@reddit
I used to keep my bedroom door closed and heat up the space with my computer running a GTX980 back in the day. My Mom and I disagreed the heat in the house should be set above 68 before October in the Midwest. So my computer was a great space heater to game comfortably.
Hopeful_Butterfly302@reddit
conservation of energy says that all the energy consumed is converted into heat, so a 350w load on a PSU will generate around 1100btus/hr.
chr0n0phage@reddit
I used a 3090 @ 400W for two years since new and now a 4090 thats running at roughly 275-400W depending on game/scene and frankly, I've never been able to tell. I feel like if you have air conditioning you're unlikely to notice.
BitRunner64@reddit
It depends on the size of the room and the ventilation/airflow.
It can be noticeable, especially close to the PC and if you have a small room without ventilation. If you have good ventilation (even without AC) or keep the windows open it's much less noticeable. I actually notice it most in winter, where it's kind of nice to have the space around the desk slightly warmed up by the PC. In the summer, there's so much heat coming from the sun that a few hundred extra watts don't make a difference, especially when I keep all the windows open.
Hungry_Reception_724@reddit
Yes, im in a 14" by 9foot bedroom, we have active central air, my room with all the doors shut raises about 5c after a couple hours of playing and stays there.
kondenado@reddit
Yes it does heat up.
A heater will typically use 2000 W and it's for a 20/25 M2 room.
400 W is a quarter of it. It should heat 5m2. (Half of a room in an apartment).
ThunderKats351@reddit
Yep and ain't only 350W can go up to 500W and that's like 1/4 of an electric heater most of the time. But only happen when you are actually gaming.
MurdererMagi@reddit
Try a boxing in side a window blowing outward to vent the heat.
MrBadTimes@reddit
If you isolate your room well enough, and with enough time, it will heat it up to a noticeable degree, but regular space heaters are usually 1500 watts, not 350 :P
Suboptimal_Design@reddit
Yes. Hell, my 3070 cooks my office and it's not a small room.
-Daigher-@reddit
my 2060 heats up the room by a noticeable degree
vaurapung@reddit
I work in 90+ degree factory in the summer. My pc, tv and stereo dont make enough heat to make me uncomfortable. 3 other people in the room though makes it stuffy with no fan.
Odur29@reddit
I just lock my FPS at 75, and It stays bearable here in Cali during the summer with just the fan on.
MurdererMagi@reddit
Your PC can if you leave door shut and you have a small room i can confirm this i have a 7800X3D and a 5070ti msi b850 gaming plus wifi 32gb ddr5 Kingston fury beast 6000 mt/s cl30 and my system heats my room up a bit if I dont leave the door open. Sometimes in the dead of summer I use a box fan in my room to push hoy air out my door, or to just put the fan on me for more air.
_Blackstar0_0@reddit
Yes my pc heats my room a lot. It’s nice in winter but annoying in summer for sure.
IansMind@reddit
I leave my window open in Wisconsin winters because my 7800x3D and 7900xtx heat the room up so much.
sagewynn@reddit
No matter what, if you push 300w into a card, its got to go somewhere and its almost always heat.
Playing a game on a pc with a 9800x3d and a 9070xt in my room, by mid day its noticeably warmer.
healz12@reddit
I had house with a small computer room. I’d always start gaming with a sweater on and eventually I’d be in shorts and a t shirt. That was with a 1070ti and a Ryzen 3700x
No_Guarantee7841@reddit
You want just undervolt if you are looking to reduce power consumption by a good margin. Or reduce the power limit slider ig.
tiredwolf44@reddit
Yes they do, as someone with that card I’ll tell you to prepare to sweat.
joan16v@reddit
obviously it will not help to keep fresh the room, specially in summer
TheRealTreezus@reddit
My 3080ti / 9800X3D definitely get my room pretty warm over a few hours!
Moist-Highway-6787@reddit
The GPU is only consuming a bunch of watts when you're pushing it, so it's not like it's running as a heater most of the time unless your a very hardcore gamer.
Jpotter145@reddit
Yes; my card that consumes closer to 200W during high usage raises the room temp (14' x 10') 3-5 degrees over the rest of the house. Even with the door open.
FewEstablishment4099@reddit
Depends on room size, temperature difference and insulation factor. Humidity can also play a role if temperature is below dew point. In a perfectly insulated room, you'd notice instantly, but this isn't the Matrix, and perfectly insulated rooms do not exist. So, it'd only be noticeable if the conditions were within a certain range. Else it'd be too cold/hot to matter.
SavedMartha@reddit
Yes
Celcius_87@reddit
yes
HyperionStarduster@reddit
I have a 3090 and don’t need a traditional form a heat for my room until the outside temps are around 0 degrees Fahrenheit. AC in the summer is an absolute must.
No-Repordt@reddit
Yeah. I've got carpeted floors in my second-floor bedroom so I put my PC on my desk. Even with my wife keeping the AC at 70 or below, and the ceiling fan on max, it is noticeably warmer when my computer is running vs when it's completely off.
tiga_94@reddit
I have a 4070 and when I play games it gets significantly warmer in my tiny bedroom, although the entire PC produces just about 300 watts of heat
jhaluska@reddit
Depends on your insulation. If your room is already hot without it, adding it won't make it better. It can be nice in winter tho.
TallComputerDude@reddit
absolutely, but it also depends on whether you have A/C blasting, the size of the room, height of ceilings (remember heat rises), and whether it's blasting your legs or face.
OreoOne06@reddit
Unless you live at 4 Privet Drive under the staircase then, no. Youll be fine.