One other thing and this is for any GE66 owners out there, during your Timespy runs are you able to get the GPU core to go higher than 1,750 or so? It boosts higher than that during the demo part of the benchmark, but for the actual benchmark I can't seem to get it higher than 1,750 or so no matter what I do, yet during games it can go as high as 2,050. It's very strange.
That's normal and probably normal for desktop GPUs.
(I spent
too much some time looking at the MSI AB monitoring charts when I initially got mine - I like to understand what's going on so I can work with the limitations.)
Different scenes pose different amounts of stress on the GPU - a simple scene may not require much complexity, in which case fewer components of the chip are being used, so it can boost up to ~2100 Mhz before being power-limited.
You can also try with different benchmarks - e.g. Unigine Valley, the clockspeed is all over the place, but Superposition the clockspeed stays pretty low because the GPU is really taxed.
Take a look at the "Power Limit" plot in MSI AB.
I always like to see the power, voltage and temp limits to see which one is limiting. I don't think I've ever seen a temp limit on this GE66, which is good. It's always power, which is why that 140 W vBIOS mentioned elsewhere would be beneficial. I don't think I can be bothered for the sake of 10W though. (My 2060 was frustratingly power limited to about 85W, so flashing that to 115W was totally worth it).
