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GPUs do use fairly fine-grained dynamic frequency scaling on their memory chips for precisely this reason: having a top-end GPU run at around 15-20 W under ligh
by formerly_proven 5y ago
GPUs do use fairly fine-grained dynamic frequency scaling on their memory chips for precisely this reason: having a top-end GPU run at around 15-20 W under light loads simply wouldn't be possible otherwise.
- magicalhippo 5y agoYeah, but at the time my card only went down half-way, to 1200 MHz IIRC, while I made it go down to 800 Mhz in desktop mode. In gaming it was closer to 3 GHz. This was before my NVIDIA GTX 970, some AMD model. Just really blew my mind how much heat the VRAM contributed.