Nvidia GeForce 1070 overheating in Chrome?!

[retroborg]

Good day,
I have the following setup:
Win 7 Ultimate 64bit
Intel Core 2 @9500 Quad 2.83GHZ
8GB
MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Gaming X
Driver 441.87

Whenever I'm using Chrome Browser and then run MSI Afterburner, I noticed that that the GPU & Memory frequency and temperature are quite high as if I'm playing some game!
GPU Clock: 1582MHZ
Memory Clock: 4006MHZ
Temperature: 59C


If I close Chrome, they drop down to normal idle settings.
GPU Clock: 139MHZ
Memory Clock: 405MHZ
Temperature: 46C

This does not happen when I use Firefox or TOR and remains idle.

So is there something wrong here and what can I do?! It doesn't seem right going so high by just running Chorme?!
Perhaps I have caught some malware, virus that uses my GPUs resources to mine crypto currency & bit coins?!

Any info would be highly appreciated!
Thanks in advance

[Xlucine]

59C is very cool for crypto mining. That card runs passively up to 60C, so it looks like normal operating temps IMO (modern web browsers are fairly demanding on hardware)

[Mr. G]

I get a spike in frequencies upon launching Chrome but it'll drop once I start browsing normally. You could try disabling hardware acceleration to see if that makes a difference (Settings > Advanced > System and toggle it off).

[retroborg]

I get a spike in frequencies upon launching Chrome but it'll drop once I start browsing normally. You could try disabling hardware acceleration to see if that makes a difference (Settings > Advanced > System and toggle it off).

OK, I just disabled hardware acceleration in the Chrome Advanced settings and now the GPU, Mem & Temp remain low same as in Firefox. So is that Hardware acceleration in Chrome even needed and where does it benefit overall? It seems to stress the card a lot when it's on!
There is also another setting "Continue running background apps when Google Chrome is closed" which I also disabled but it doesn't seem to affect the GPU either way. I don't even know what's the point of having this enabled when you're not running Chrome?!

[Mr. G]

It's enabled by default so that the CPU doesn't have to handle graphic-intensive tasks, which ideally should be left to the GPU. The high usage issue is something that should normally be resolved by a graphics driver update (or an update to Chrome even) but if for whatever reason that doesn't work, the band-aid fix is to disable HW acceleration.

The other setting is useful if you use an app or extension for notifications for example, they'll still come through while Chrome is closed. It shouldn't have any impact on your GPU though, but if you have no use for those then it's fine to leave it disabled.