Despite NVIDIA's removal of the Hotspot temperature measurements, CPUID developers have deployed the feature to their popular hardware monitoring utility.
NVIDIA Killed RTX 50 Hotspot Readings, but HWMonitor 1.65 Just Brought Them Back With Two Sensors
While NVIDIA may have dropped the Hotspot temperature measurements from the Blackwell GeForce RTX 50 series graphics cards, the sensors reportedly do exist. We saw how modders brought back the hotspot monitoring through modding, which revealed how some GPUs were thermal throttling despite showing normal average GPU temperatures.
The GPUs, therefore, were affected by high hotspot temperatures, resulting in inferior gaming performance. The experiment proved that the sensors do exist, but the measurements were disabled by NVIDIA for unknown reasons. Since hotspot monitoring is crucial in understanding proper cooler contact and reasons for thermal throttling, one would want to have such a utility to measure hotspot temperatures.
Thankfully, CPUID has made it possible and has brought back the hotspot temperature monitoring to the official HWMonitor version 1.65 utility. As per the release notes, one can now measure the hotspot temperatures on the GeForce RTX 50 series, which weren't possible on the previous versions. Now apart from regular average GPU and VRAM temperatures, users will be able to continuously monitor real-time hotspot readings directly from the software
User @d9cTB showed what the new interface looks like. The HWMonitor window reportedly shows two different HotSpot readings. Apparently, one is for the GPU while the other one is for the power delivery, i.e., VRM. Inclusion of both is highly convenient and appreciable. This will allow users to monitor and figure out if their GPUs are thermal throttled due to high temperatures. Hopefully, more hardware utility makers will include the latest feature in their software for such measurements.
News Source: CPUID
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