NVidia 6 Series Power % Explaination

[F1aw1ess]

I've had a look round the forums and net but cant seem to get a concrete answer.

Hope someone could spend a minute explaining the Power % setting in afterburner please?

I have a 670 Windforce on driver 301.40 and use afterburner 2.2.1, I can change the voltage on the slider but it makes no difference, under load the card goes to 1.175v and at idle backs down to 0.987v

My default 2d clock seems to be 324 (was 51 on my 580, maybe not clocking down properly?) whereas I have a stable overclock of 1350mhz core and 7400ghz memory with a custom fan profile the card never goes over 60c.

Now, I have the afterburner graph running on my 3rd monitor so I can see it all the time when benching etc and although the card is clocking correctly up to 1350mhz like im telling it too the Power % averages around the 75% mark and peak up to around 95% once in a while.

I dont know whether this is good or bad or means I have further overclocking headroom etc etc.

I also found out that there is a setting in the options called Power Limit which can be increased past 100% but it doesnt seem to do anything, whether the bar is at 100% or max.

So I'm a bit confused and would hope someone will take a few minutes out of their day to help an old tired mind

Cheers guys

 

[F1aw1ess]

thanks for the reply.

surely though when benchmarking it should be requesting the maximum amount of power possible to render maximum frames but again this isnt what i see, it hovers around 70% peaking into the mid 90's

 

[F1aw1ess]

i only get the option up to 111% in afterburner?