03-09-2016, 12:22 AM
(03-08-2016, 10:49 PM)SteelCrysis Wrote: http://techreport.com/news/29819/nvidia-...head-again
Quote:While this "power bug" may sound like a minor issue, its effects are more insidious than one might expect. Using our trusty Watts Up power meter, I measured the idle power consumption of our testbed system at the wall. When the GTX 980 Ti is running at 135MHz as expected, that system draws between 80 and 90 watts at the wall. Kick up the refresh rate in a multi-monitor setup, though, and that figure jumps to between 130 and 150 watts. An affected PC running 24/7 is nearly doubling its idle power consumption, and that'll make for a hefty increase in one's power bill. Even weirder still, this problem doesn't seem to go away even if you turn off all of the monitors attached to the PC.
We tested some other parameters and found that display resolution and G-Sync settings don't appear to have any effect on the issue. We've reported our findings to Nvidia, and we'll update this post if we hear back. Hopefully, this bug can be solved with another simple driver update.
Hmmm. So if you're running multiple monitors it uses AMD level power? Non issue in USA where power is dirt cheap.