Apologies if this is the wrong place to ask and 2nd apologies for my somewhat limited technical knowledge.
HI am not positive this is normal behavior or not. I recently upgraded from the RTX4000 to an A6000. The A6000 runs quite warm in my opiniion, but again not sure - may be completely normal.
It’s in an Aorus Master Z490 with a 10900k CPU and 128GB 3600 RAM. All nvme drives. The card is running at PCIE x16… no other cards in the system.
When utilizing the A6000 to upscale videos using a product like Topaz or others, GPU will run at up to 90%, temperatures average around 84F, and fans seem to never go above 50%.
So , is this normal behavior? Am I missing something? Setting I should change in Nvidia Control Panel?
Lastly, what is the ECC mode on the A6000? I do not see a lot of difference with it on or off.
Since there seems to be no “manual” for the card, I just did not know where to ask.
Thanks in advance if anyone is able to help.
-Jack
Heritage Photo Restoration and Genealogy
Never used these high-tier quadros but all RTX 4000s, P2200s and RTX A4000s I have encountered are more-less the same. The rationale is that these cards are built to withstand harsher conditions than consumer cards. It almost seems like 84+ C (I think you meant Celsius, not Fahrenheit) is the perfect temperature for them. I always remember how unpleasant it is to touch these cards while running, but I always do it :P.
The fan simply has a fairly large headroom.
This seems to be typical for our servers running A6000s. The GPU fans run at 30% - 50% Fan speed and start to be a tiny bit more active at keeping 86C (ie the fan ramps up a percent or two every minute the GPU is hotter than 86 to bring it back down to 86.)
The GTT is set to 84C but changing it to 65C (lowest possible) does not seem to affect the fan speed.
I ended up installing the python bindings for the NVIDIA Management Library (NVML)
( pip3 install nvidia-ml-py )
and writing a simple python script to set my GPU fan to 100% the moment it gets over 60 C and then set it back to auto fan if it gets under 40 C. This has made the A6000s work much better for me as they are able to complete the tasks and recover between them without thermal throttling.
pynvml.nvmlDeviceSetFanControlPolicy