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>so in nvidia's case if your gpu die is running at idle and cool while the vram is at maximum clocks the card just cooks the vram or goes into thermal shutdown before the fans start? i'm not sure if that's any better
There's 0 real-scenario where the video card's VRAM is running at maximum frequency & utilization to risk thermal throttling while the GPU's running under fan-stop temps.

>vram HOTSPOT, not vram temperature two very different things
That's not what the vBIOS says, the 108°C memory thermal limit shows it's referring to the IC's case temperature, not the Tjunction.
108°C is the case temp when the chip's thermal protection (performance throttling) kicks in.