*Official Benchmark Thread* - Post it here or it didn't happen :D

[Mr. Fox]

32 minutes ago, jaybee83 said:

so guys, seems like HWInfo is already on it with Blackwell hotspot readouts: 

Good news, because HWMonitor sucks.

 

Another happy degradation-free experience with 13th and 14th Gen Intel.

 

[Papusan]

1 hour ago, jaybee83 said:

so guys, seems like HWInfo is already on it with Blackwell hotspot readouts: 

 

HWiNFO adds RTX 50 hotspot temperature reporting, RTSS can display it too

 

No Hot Spot for MSI Afterburner, but RTSS supports it
MSI Afterburner developer Alexey “Unwinder” Nicolaychuk explained that he cannot add RTX 50 hotspot monitoring directly to Afterburner for legal and marketing reasons. MSI Afterburner is official NVIDIA partner-branded software, so its monitoring features must rely on sensors exposed through NVIDIA’s supported NVAPI interfaces.

 

Due to some weird reasons NVIDIA still keeps VRAM/hotspot temperature monitoring interfaces for private internal NV software only, they are not open even to partners making NVIDIA bases graphics cards. Every single currently existing tool displaying VRAM/hotspot temperatgure on NVIDIA side rely on reverse engineered private NVAPI interfaces (or even direct GPU access in case of RTX 5000 cards), which doesn’t make green GPU vendor too happy.

— Unwinder

 

19 hours ago, electrosoft said:

Hopefully not a situation of Nvidia influencing them to not add it as a readout. Now we need MSI AB to add it in for their OSD.

 

RTX 50 hotspot data is hidden from NVAPI and can only be accessed through direct GPU register reads, while earlier hotspot and VRAM readings used reverse-engineered private interfaces. Unwinder can demonstrate this access through his independent RivaTuner Statistics Server project, but he cannot include an unofficial implementation in MSI Afterburner unless NVIDIA adds the sensor to its public API. Unwider strongly suggests that someone create a plugin that would allow for easy unofficial support.

 

[Talon]

 

And they say AI and LLM are useless. I used my robot and got this added in less than 30 minutes. 

[Mr. Fox]

Mumak has a test build available that has hotspot temps. Here is a link to his post.

 

https://www.hwinfo.com/forum/threads/nvidia-rtx-5080-incorrect-gpu-hotspot-temp-missing-3rd-fan-speed-summary-info.10306/post-52987

 

[Talon]

Morning project done, did this with ChatGPT in a couple of hours. Remove the .txt from the hotspot.dll @Mr. Fox @Papusan @electrosoft

 

 

 

BlackwellHotspot.dll.txtBlackwellHotspot_MSI_Afterburner_Guide_v3_1.pdf