It's been a long time since I owned a Nvidia Graphics Card, with the last one been a MSI GTX 460 TwinFrozr. I cannot remember there been such a setting in the Nvidia Control Panel back then, or if it was there I must not have payed much attention to it.
Anyway as I am coming back over from ATI I was looking through the Nvidia Control Panel at a few of the available options (under Manage 3D Settings) and came across the "Power management mode" entry. There are two available options here, "Adaptive" and "Prefer maximum performance".
I have had a look around on Google and could only really find explanations on this option, "Adapative" been the Graphics card will run at the required clock speeds when needed, and will down clock when not needed - so basically the card will try to automatically determine what speed the card should be running it. The "Prefer maximum performance" option should allow the graphics card to run continuously at maximum speed.
Reading earlier about this on some other forums and a few mentioned that "Adapative" mode can cause stuttering in games as the clock speeds are not been increased fast enough, or that they have been down clocked when they should not have been (Think of having Auto set for voltage on a CPU overclock and you know it can be unpredictable with the value been automatically set).
Then we have the "Prefer maximum performance" mode, which as the name suggests should be the ideal setting, surely everyone would benefit more from having this option on. However my doubts about this are, whether or not it means the Graphics card will be running at full speed outside of gaming eg, desktop browsing etc. That won't be a good idea and it possibly opens up new problems such as added heat, drawing power when not needed etc - admittedly I have not tried this option, the default is "Adapative" and so far I have not changed it.
What are your thoughts on this? Is everyone running it at default "Adapative" or have you changed it to "Prefer maximum performance" and to what effect does it have?
Cheers
Anyway as I am coming back over from ATI I was looking through the Nvidia Control Panel at a few of the available options (under Manage 3D Settings) and came across the "Power management mode" entry. There are two available options here, "Adaptive" and "Prefer maximum performance".
I have had a look around on Google and could only really find explanations on this option, "Adapative" been the Graphics card will run at the required clock speeds when needed, and will down clock when not needed - so basically the card will try to automatically determine what speed the card should be running it. The "Prefer maximum performance" option should allow the graphics card to run continuously at maximum speed.
Reading earlier about this on some other forums and a few mentioned that "Adapative" mode can cause stuttering in games as the clock speeds are not been increased fast enough, or that they have been down clocked when they should not have been (Think of having Auto set for voltage on a CPU overclock and you know it can be unpredictable with the value been automatically set).
Then we have the "Prefer maximum performance" mode, which as the name suggests should be the ideal setting, surely everyone would benefit more from having this option on. However my doubts about this are, whether or not it means the Graphics card will be running at full speed outside of gaming eg, desktop browsing etc. That won't be a good idea and it possibly opens up new problems such as added heat, drawing power when not needed etc - admittedly I have not tried this option, the default is "Adapative" and so far I have not changed it.
What are your thoughts on this? Is everyone running it at default "Adapative" or have you changed it to "Prefer maximum performance" and to what effect does it have?
Cheers