Unlocked Hotspot Readings Reveal RTX 50 Throttling Linked to Cooling Failures
A Brazilian modder claims to re-enable NVIDIA's GPU Hotspot sensor on RTX 50 GPUs, showing hotspot temps around 107C that caused throttling even when average temps looked fine; after replacing thermal paste, hotspots dropped to 100C and performance improved. The change suggests NVIDIA’s removal of hotspot monitoring can mask cooling issues, and it advocates reintroducing hotspot data in software to diagnose mounting or paste problems.