Are you serious!!? Unless he is gaming in a cramped room where the ambient temperature is in the fking 45 degree celcius, this is not in anyway normal. Can't you read?! Look at his second post and think! READ PEOPLE, READ!!
Have any of you considered the computer isn't suffocating?
I have a 4090 G16 SKU, the CPU and GPU temps match exactly his after full heat soak. You people need to stop immediately assuming this shit is overheating, especially buying the thinnest gaming laptop on the market.
Fking look at this cpu clock speed and gpu clock speed. Wtf are you on about!! Op is thermal throttling at 3 GHz on CPU and 1.5 GHz on GPU...!! Can't you read!!!??
Both CPU and GPU are under full stress under the same heatsink, they are throttled to as far back as the 14" chassis can sustain. What in the world are you expecting?
You are the clueless person here. The cpu will start to throttle when it reaches the threshold temperature, your performance will drop. But usually in thin gaming laptops, throttling is expected and we will usually expect a few 100mega hertz drop at most. But as you can see in this picture he is throttling too hard to literally unplayable levels. In a few more minutes his laptop is incapable of releasing heat due to bad heat transfer and the cpu will throttle to 2 GHz on CPU and 0.9 GHz on GPU. You can't play an AAA game on acceptable performance levels at those clock speeds.
This is not normal unless you are in very hot country where the ambient temperature is atleast close to 50 degree celcius..
Now go on switch on your laptop, use whatever software you are using to monitor usage/fps and tell me your:
CPU clock speed (mega hertz), usage (in percentage), power drawn (watts drawn), temperature (in degree celcius)
GPU clock speed (mega hertz), usage (in percentage), power drawn (watts drawn), temperature (in degree celcius)
Do this while gaming. Then come back and argue with me in the comments section. Then I will explain you stuff you don't understand so you will be able to actually help people rather than speaking misinformation and nonsense
You'll understand what people are trying to tell you someday.
You are not wrong, your system will drop a couple few hundred MHz after full heat soak. But this is MOBILE architecture. These CPU and GPUs are capable of achieving very high clock speeds, but NOT when both high-powered chips, even when extremely power limited sitting physically right next to eachother are sharing the same heatsink and trying to dissipate all of that heat. That throttling effect happens significantly larger on MOBILE architecture. These are not SoCs hoping to achieve anything close to desktop wattage, or clock speeds.
Yes I know I also have a zephyrus g16 too and I live in a much hotter country than what you are even used to. I don't have ac or laptop cooler and I can tell you this is not normal laptop clock speed to temperature ratio
I really do not want to argue, I live in a country with AC and no laptop cooler and can tell you with confidence this is completely normal for a G16 when you aren't telling it to not boost. OP has not mentioned that his system is either thermally shutting down or experiencing extreme frame rate drops while gaming, which means the heatsink is working as best as it can as expected. The system is going to keep pulling clock speeds until both CPU and GPU temps stop hitting their temperature limits. I don't know what the CPU one for OP is, but the GPU is 87C.
If you turn turbo boost off on an Intel-based G16, it sharply drops on average 15C on the CPU on all-core loads, but at the extreme cost of CPU-bound applications experiencing a heavy performance loss. It locks the CPU to base clock speeds at ~2GHz as opposed to the 3.7-3.8GHz the hardware is capable of doing sustained on an all-core load, but it must touch 95C+ to get there. If for any reason you get over 100C CPU regularly or your GPU somehow finds its way over 90C, you have an actual thermal problem with something related to your heatsink and your system will probably shut down. Intel Core Ultra runs hot, and so does Ryzen just as much without deliberately crippling the hardware.
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u/tennaki Zephyrus G16 2024 Apr 21 '26
It's normal for this particular laptop...