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Originally Posted by bjd
I spent about an hour monitoring the Nvidia card using GPU-Z and safely say the Nvidia Power saving logic is not very smart at all  |
Yes, that's why I perform my own power saving logic...
I installed nvidia system tools, and created two profiles. One with all the clocks set to the lowest, for day-to-day usage, because for most of the stuff that's plenty enough. For special usage, like when using mpc-hc, I created a profile with the normal clocks to be loaded whenever I use mpc-hc. So, power saving on everyday work, and top performance with mpc-hc.
Furthermore, every time you want to use your nvidia gpu at its top performance, you should open the nvidia control panel, select the "Adjust Image Settings With Preview", and then minimizing it. We need to do this to get low DPC latencies, which otherwise are always very high (nvidia drivers bug).