![]() You will get better FPS performance (weight adjusted) as well as longer tech life, by using Adaptive in the nVidia driver setting under Global. If you run Prefer Max Power, any showing P8 state is inaccurate, for Prefer Max Power, is a by-pass 'clamp', that disengages the auto-P(x) state, to achieve full freq generation power at all times of usage. This is not good for your card's thermals, as well as your pocket book. Prefer Max Power is just that.whereby you hinder/clamp the auto P-state routine of your card, and force it to run at P0, always. Sometimes.but very sporadic, your card might drop to P8, while in Prefer Max Power, but that is not what is happening in actuality. You can check out what your P-state is by using CPUZ.to see this. If I run at Prefer Max Power, the card will stay at P0, no matter if I drop to a low-demand graphic environment, like my computer Desktop, with the card's twin fans never dropping to full stop (idle cool). I use Adaptive as my setting always, and can see my GTX 1070 FTW, idle down its twin fans to a dead stop, within 2 minutes from very demanding XP, P3D, or FSX scene complexities. Adaptive keeps your card at its lowest possible internal chip heat, to handle whatever you are asking it to render, with no chance of your card auto-throttling down your running frequencies. Nope.for Adaptive is powering the 'scene' to what the card needs, to give you the best FPS, (averaged) at the LEAST power required to do so.Īnother way to look at it.is if you have a 6 speed transmission, why keep it in fifth gear at a higher rev point, to cruise at 70, then rather drop your engine torque, by using the sixth gear to achieve the same road speed (FPS).īy using Prefer Max Power, you are keeping your card, at an elevated heat setting, for no reason.even at idle. Some are mistaken in believing that by using the Adaptive setting, you do not receive the full benefit of your gear.and that by only usng the Prefer Max Power, do you. Your card will stay in its coolest thermal state, for what is being asked of it to render This will not only conserve power, but MOST IMPORTANTLY, will keep your card from throttling down it freq's, because it is hitting, or getting close to the heat threshold limits, by where your card starts to drop its frequency output. ![]() Another feature of Adaptive that you actually want when in flight simulation, is that it will monitor the actual power needs to generate whatever is called upon on the screen.and your flight scenario. If you set your Power Setting to Adaptive, that is the one that will allow your card to use its internal power-ramp settings, and thereby, will take your card down to a cooling P8 (idle) when graphics tasks do not call for max power rendering. on the Pascal series cards, as you know, there is a Power Down State listed from P0, (the highest power and watts burned), to the idle P8, (the lowest 'idle' in watts).īecause of a quark and coding in the latest nVidia driver suites, if you set your power state in the mask, to Prefer Max Power, you will be seeing that your card does not power down to idle, (P8), and will in fact stay at P0, even at the computer desktop.
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