Nvidia Driver Power limit question

[Nevakonaza]

Hey,

I've recently come across in the Nvidia control panel the option to Set "Power management mode" from Adaptive to Maximum Performance.

Is setting it to "Maximum Performance" in the Nvidia Driver the same as what MSI afterburner does when you can move the power limit slider from 100 to 109?

Because if it is i would no longer need MSI afterburner installed

 

[arknor]

maximum performance stops the card from clocking down when it's not high utilisation I think

 

[Twinz]

maximum performance stops the card from clocking down when it's not high utilisation I think

^This
It doesn't do what the slider on Afterburner does.

That being said, I have found that Afturburners settings "stick" after you close the program until you either restart the PC, or reopen afterburner and change it.

 

[kalniel]

Yep - also it should have been on 'optimal' rather than the old 'adaptive' to allow power saving when screen content is the same. Both will clock up to full on GPU load, but there's a tiny performance advantage if you 'maximum performance' - the Windows/Xbox game boost and Nvidia Reflex/Low latency Ultra also override this and set the card to maximum power.

Power limit is a cap on the maximum W the GPU can draw, and it'll cap the clockspeed to stay within this limit - that rarely occurs in games, but stress test/benchmarks might trigger I guess - you can monitor if the power cap ever limited anything in the sensors on Afterburner.