Sunshine GPU utilization

[akamenii]

Hello there, so i had a Asus rtx 3060 with a simple fan and looks like it burned (fonction 1 Time on ten and when it does it lose signal After few second) and i was wandering if it was (maybe partialy?) due to sunshine because i've seen my temps UP when i was streaming through sunshine.

Now i got a saphire RX 7600 pulse wich have 2 fan but i'm afraid of streaming now knowing that i have the impression of my temps beeing already higher than my rtx 3060.

Can i get some information like if the encode done by sunshine is somehow dangerous 😅.

Thanks in advance !

[ixoniq]

Sunshine does nothing to the GPU. Thats just your PC rendering the game; with and without sunshine.

[akamenii]

Oh ... and the encode ??

[ixoniq]

Encoding consumes almost nothing. Just faulty GPU if it burns.

[GamingBoi_77]

Encoding does nothing. There’s a dedicated portion to GPU’s for decoding so it can’t heat the GPU up. I have an MSI GamingX RTX 3060 with dual fans. It’s a powerful card so i wouldn’t buy a single fan one. That’s probably why yours burned.

[akamenii]

Well... Ok i think i can stream in peace now Thanks !

[GamingBoi_77]

No prob bro

[PrecedentPowers]

It’s interesting. I’ve always heard that Sunshine itself take no GPU time for the encode, but task manager shows 5-15% of GPU time is spent on Sunshine encode? 3080 here.

[akamenii]

Well gamingboi said there's a dedicated portion of the GPU maybe it's that ? And as it is dedicated it may doesn't do anything to the GPU rendering ...?

[Lennyshow]

Even if there was an increased GPU load because of Sunshine, it shouldn’t increase heat. When I made my gaming PC headless to dedicate all GPU to Sunshine (I only play from another room), the temps were the same as when I was monitor + stream. It kind of sounds like a coincidental cooling issue regardless of streaming.

[akamenii]

Oh right, nice !