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Creepus_Explodus t1_j2zy0eq wrote

Essentially, yes. It's a protection mechanism for the GPU to prevent overheating, so it slows down to reduce temperature. Stuttering can have other causes though, so it's just an indicator that thermal throttling may be occurring. To actually validate it, you need some way to monitor the GPU temperature under load. You can enable an overlay in Radeon Software that shows your hardware stats during gameplay, or use some other software like GPU-Z or HWInfo.

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Creepus_Explodus t1_j2zwyoz wrote

Radeon Software has hardware monitoring built in. If your junction temperature reaches 110 degrees C, your card is thermal throttling. When this happens, the clock speed of the GPU gets cut back significantly which shows as stuttering in gameplay.

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cute_polarbear t1_j2zpxnb wrote

Yeah. I am top 1-2% in income and thinking 2x about upgrading my 4 year old TV or a new espresso machine (Jura). Granted I am in one of the most expensive cities in US with multiple kids (and thinking about their college). That's the other thing, top tier private university is insane amount of money in US (it's like 60-70k usd not including anything else per year now)... Retirement is still a while away, but also thinking about that...

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