Nvidia is working to fix power draw issues at high refresh rates

[NeverBackDown]

Well look out for both.. if the GPU power rises so does the power from the wall

Afaik it only effects the 165hz GSYNC monitors a lot because the core clock goes upto 800mhz to drive the refresh rate. Other than that normal 60hz 3/3+1 setups probably don't make much a difference I'd assume unless you can look into GPUz and see if it does indeed consume more

 

[SuB]

If it's just that the extra display or hz is putting the card into full 3D mode then I imagine it's driver fixable. Just a case of telling the cards not to roll out into full power mode in these cases. But it might be required due to bandwidth etc. But I imagine they'll tweak it so that the bit of the card requiring the volts will still get it while still keeping the clocks down. (and hence, power)

Personally I'd like to see what their answer to the new AMD drivers is going to be. Long has it been that nVidia keeps the actual performance of their cards under wraps until they release an appropriate driver to unlock it all. Be nice for them to sort that out.

 

[barnsley]

finally. It'll be nice to run my monitor at 144hz all the time (as opposed to 120hz, not that there is much difference between the two).
I like how despite it being an issue for a long time they've only just decided to fix it because a few news stories had been posting about it. IIRC it has been an issue since the first 120hz monitors, its just been less noticeable with newer cards due to a higher pixel clock (or something like that) when idling.

Afaik it only effects the 165hz GSYNC monitors a lot because the core clock goes upto 800mhz to drive the refresh rate. Other than that normal 60hz 3/3+1 setups probably don't make much a difference I'd assume unless you can look into GPUz and see if it does indeed consume more

As far as I've seen its pretty much:
120hz (and 3x60hz monitors)- GTX 480 to 680 will go into performance mode
144hz+ - GTX780 and above

Currently my 780Ti will go into 3D mode when I run my main monitor at 1440p@144hz. Changing anything on my secondary 60hz 1080P monitor, including unplugging it, doesn't affect my card's clock. Changing my main monitor to 120hz puts it down into 2d clocks.

 

[jimma47]

Well look out for both.. if the GPU power rises so does the power from the wall

Afaik it only effects the 165hz GSYNC monitors a lot because the core clock goes upto 800mhz to drive the refresh rate. Other than that normal 60hz 3/3+1 setups probably don't make much a difference I'd assume unless you can look into GPUz and see if it does indeed consume more

Cheers. Yeah only 60hz. I've noticed they downclock on idle to 949 from 1291 on boost so still not really in super low territory but I'll keep an eye on it. Just thought I'd ask because of that first comment about multi screen setups. Sitting on my desktop now and they're at 60 degrees with zero fan. I can live with that

Plus I haven't got a wall outlet monitor.
FWIW Corsair Link says:
Idle (GPU clocks 949, 1000mv, 0Fan) 170 watts (25% Power target on GPU monitor)
Load(GPU clocks 1291, 1187mv, 41/70% fan, 476 watts average and 507 watts max (98% power target)

PSU is good. 93% efficiency. Still happy with dual 980s it's pretty efficient.

 

[NeverBackDown]

finally. It'll be nice to run my monitor at 144hz all the time (as opposed to 120hz, not that there is much difference between the two).
I like how despite it being an issue for a long time they've only just decided to fix it because a few news stories had been posting about it. IIRC it has been an issue since the first 120hz monitors, its just been less noticeable with newer cards due to a higher pixel clock (or something like that) when idling.


As far as I've seen its pretty much:
120hz (and 3x60hz monitors)- GTX 480 to 680 will go into performance mode
144hz+ - GTX780 and above

Currently my 780Ti will go into 3D mode when I run my main monitor at 1440p@144hz. Changing anything on my secondary 60hz 1080P monitor, including unplugging it, doesn't affect my card's clock. Changing my main monitor to 120hz puts it down into 2d clocks.

Yeah it's interesting they only decided to care about it now that a few stories popped up. But tbf no one really cared until now. So they probably didn't bother spending time on a fix for it.

Wow that's worse than I thought. I thought it was only when driving any 165hz monitor. They must have really not cared for a long time if the 480 is included. On the other hand if you still have a 480 i see no reason in getting a monitor above 60hz anyways since it won't run anything nearly high end to warrant a high refresh display