I’m not a fanboy of AMD products, but this is something which I get bored with recently. Users ask me that why are you suggesting an AMD build which heats up like a toaster.
In my experience, AMD products do run warmer than Intel, but that doesn’t mean hotter, it is built like that. It is just a couple of Celsius up and down. It is on a manufacturer to control the minimum and higher temperatures for a specific CPU or GPU, and for control they have higher limits.
The fact is, AMD’s CPU, GPU, and any other product that exists are not a toaster. It is a myth which is living around us for many years. AMD with Ryzen refresh improved a lot, before that there were few CPUs that tend to heat much but not that much to kill itself. The same thing applies to GPU as well, however as of 2020 NVIDIA has better GPUs and AMD is doing improvements on other levels.
Also, there are CPUs with higher TDP which are made for editing or gaming purposes, and they get hotter if you are using a basic or stock cooler. To obtain small sample data we ran some tests on our office desktops, and we found that under an average load almost every system was around 50-65 degrees Celsius.
To be clear, any CPU which is under load heats up and to dissipate that heating use that stock cooler which came in the CPU box, or you can use an aftermarket cooler if your workload is high all the time.
TIP: Always use at least 2 case fans to cool the chassis and while installing CPU cooler use a high-quality thermal compound with at least 8 W/mK thermal conductivity. Of course, this will cost some extra bucks, but this will ensure that all cooling system working at its best levels without any issue.
Conclusion.
It is a misconception, whoever thinks AMD CPU/GPU is hotter than Intel. No, AMD products are not hotter than Intel, those things were past and no longer applicable now, they all just perform similarly.
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