Is the game too GPU intensive?

Well I was mainly wondering because recently my GPU has seemed to be running at about 80-90 Degrees C and I was wondering if this is normal or what, I am running a AMD radeon HD 7900 series, the room I am in does not have the best of air circulation this is obviously a factor that i took into considerations, but is it just me or is PoE overall graphically intensive on GPUs in general?

I have not found this game to be highly GPU intensive.

Current 980 ti, prior 680 4gb, prior-prior, 580, all worked fine.

What CPU and Resolution are you using?

How much ram?

Magnetic or solid state?

Well, I feel than PoE is a bit... Kinder? To nvidia cards, than AMD cards. But I had an AMD card before, now I have a nvidia card. No problem running PoE on either. What really boosted the performance, were my SSD.

I am using 1920x1080 8GB ram SSD with an Intel I5 prosessor 2500k CPU @3.3 GHz

don't buy AMD shit

My GPU runs at 30% speed when I play PoE.

I like AMD because of the prices, but beware of the effect on their CPU's (Watts, needs expensive cooling) and the game support for their GPU's isn't quite "there".

I have similar problems with my ATI GPU. But it´s only in some rooms/maps, most of the time I have a temperature of 70-75°C, when I start my additional fans they are lower.
Do you have permanently high temps? Then clean your machine. Add fans for better cooling.

For me I solved (or better bring it to a level I can live with) it with a little seperate Prog, named MSI Afterburner. I have limited my frames to 60fps, use the built in OnScreenDisplay to monitor my temps.
Every time I recognize that I am in one of those special maps (temperature raises to 85-90°C, then shutdown because of overheating) I look for a save spot and tab out, lower the FPS in the prog to 30 and can play the map.

Some models require needlessly large cooling system despite it's overall performance target. I think you can try de-tune your GPU or vram clock/voltage till the temperature down to safe zone. better than losing a good enough card just for small performance gains on the limited situation. If that doesn't work for you, maybe it's good time to clean dust or find new one with better performance/temp ratio.

rip my 4770 and 6870, it was my fault that i didn't pick a model with giant blades and plates.

80 is perfectly normal but 90 is too high but not dangerous, it should reach a maximum of 85° ( then the fans will kick at the max). 95° is problematic and it -may- crash but it's not harmfull at all. 105 is the "red line" and it could destroy NOT the gpu but the other components around on the card by the spreading heat.

Some gpus are said to support up to 125°, for the gpu ONLY, not for the other parts of the card. 95 is "good maximum".

the gtx 480 under load could reach 120°!!!
^ do not try this at home, it's dangerous

If you reach 90 without overcloking, clean the dust. Or it's a laptop (in this case it's normal, but the heat will spread, and it may throttle the graphic card -even the processor by heat spreading- so... it's a bad new). Or you have a serious problem on the fan controller/material/driver :/



Anyway, to reduce the heat, you can lock your fps or enable vertical sync. less frame calculated, less power used, less heat.