So, I've gotten a bit confused when running some benchmarks
But first, a bit of background. Last year i bought a Palit RTX 2080 because it was on sale and i had saved to get a new GPU. After a short time, it started to have a big noise problem, even when running at pretty normal temps (70-75 Celsius) the two fans would rev up and sound like a freaking jet engine, it seemed to be tied to heavy gpu load, wether it be a high FPS in a shooter or some intense effects at 60-75 FPS in somethng like Shadow of the Tomb Raider. I struggled to find a solution, but one time i tested lowering the Power limit and temp limit from 100/83C to 63/67C. It actually worked, similar temps but no massive fan noise. But i figured that doing this would cause thermal throttling at lower temps due to the lower temp limit. Today i decided to test that theory by running a few benchmarks.
My full specs are:
Palit RTX 2080 At stock clock and memory speeds
Ryzen 7 3700x 3,6 Ghz at stock clock speeds
16 GB DDR4 3466 Mhz
Asus rog strix b450-f
Now when using 2 different benchmarks quite a few times, i've found that my performance, as well as my temps are higher when using the lower temp limit and lower pwoer limit, despite the card only reaching a 1600 Mhz boost clock. And when running at default settings, reaching around 1800 Mhz boost clock my performance is lower and my temps are slightly lower. This just doesn't seem to make any logical sense, but then again I'm an absolute amateur. Any help, advice or suggestions is welcome.
I'll include print screens from my excel, i hope they're readable, although I'm missing some data becasue MSI afterburner was being difficult, but i did monitor it manually using the OSD.
Limited the voltage and nothing changed, so today i RMAd the card and got a Gigabyte RTX 2080 Super as a replacement, had to pay a little since that card is more expensive than what i paid for on the original 2080. I'll have to do some benchmarks with the new card later today.
