Keeping track of your GPU temperature is important because high temperature not only degrades your system performance but might also damage the GPU hardware. For example, when the graphics card temp is too high, your games will not run fluidly due to dropped frames and artifacts. The same is true for resource-intensive tasks like video rendering or game development.
In older Windows versions, you would have to use third-party tools to find the GPU temperature. However, on Windows 11, you can now use the Task Manager to check your GPU temperature. In this quick and simple tutorial, I will show you how to check your GPU temperature using Task Manager on Windows 11. Let’s get started.
Before You Begin
- You must be running Windows 11 v23H2 or higher. Here’s how to check your Windows 11 version.
- To check the CPU temperature, follow this guide instead—steps to check CPU temperature on Windows 11 & 10.
Check GPU Temperature on Windows 11
- Right-click on the taskbar.
- Select the “Task Manager” option.
- Go to the “Performance” tab on the sidebar.
- Click the “GPU” option in the middle panel.
- You can see the current GPU temperature under the “GPU Temperature“.
Detailed Steps (With Screenshots)
First, we must open the Task Manager. To do that, right-click on the empty space on the taskbar and select the “Task Manager” option. You can also press the “Ctrl + Shift + Esc” shortcut.

In the Task Manager window, go to the “Performance” tab. If you don’t see the tab names, click the hamburger icon (three horizontal dots) on the left side of the title bar. In this tab, find and click the “GPU” option in the middle panel. Incidentally, you will see the GPU under the same option (see the image below).

Once you select the GPU option, the Task Manager window will show a lot of information related to it, including but not limited to, the GPU name & manufacturer, utilization graph, GPU memory, driver version, shared GPU memory, etc.
Here, find the “GPU Temperature” section to check the temperature of your GPU. For example, the temperature of my GPU is 46 °C (Celsius). Windows will actively keep track of and update the temperature information automatically.

That is it. It is that simple to find the temperature of your graphics card on Windows 11.
Wrapping Up — Checking Graphics Card Temperature on Windows 11
As you can see, with the recent update, the task manager can now show your GPU temperature without using any third-party application. Simply open the task manager, go to the “Performance” > “GPU” page and you will the temp info. While this method is perfect for most users, if you are someone who needs to keep track of CPU and GPU temperatures often, it is better to add CPU and GPU temperatures to your taskbar. That way, you don’t have to open the task manager every time.
Also, to check the CPU temperature, follow this guide—steps to check CPU temperature on Windows 11 & 10.