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Energy efficient gpu

Tetras said:
The 1050 Ti was pretty good for the time, all that gen were. I guess the RX 6400 is the closest equivalent and it does pretty well (on PCI-E 4.0) for no power connector, but many reviewers were very disappointed with the performance (it is not an upgrade to a 1050 Ti, despite releasing 5+ years later). The 6500 XT seems to have too high clocks and voltage. The 3050 is not really in the same tier anymore when it costs £300 odd. Nvidia haven't replaced the 1650 in the market for 75 watt cards yet.
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Not really a 1650 replacement, but that RTX A2000 pulls <70w and provides in between 3050 and 3060 performance.
Shame about the £700 price tag!
 
I have a 3070 and found that undervotling reduced a lot of power consumtption, but the biggest effect was from locking my frame rate to 60fps which halves power consumption in many games. That said running a computer is now an expensive hobby
 
rumple9 said:
I have a 3070 and found that undervotling reduced a lot of power consumtption, but the biggest effect was from locking my frame rate to 60fps which halves power consumption in many games. That said running a computer is now an expensive hobby
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If you have a 60Hz monitor then there's no point in running above 60fps anyway. If you have a high refresh rate monitor then I'd aim for at least 90fps, 60fps is too low.
 
Monitor is 120hz but I see no difference capping fps at 60 and I'm happy to save the money
 
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