GPU keeps continuoulsy boosting?

[Jonipoo]

The gpu is continuously boosting and drawing too much power.  I really don't know what i might have done, and if it keeps drawing power like this, its gonna result in a hefty power bill. anyone familar with this?

[emosun]

Are you looking at the usage or are you just looking at the clock speed thinking it equals usage/power consumption

[Slayer3032]

Close all of your programs that have GPU acceleration, or disable it within that program.

 

High refresh rate displays used to also cause this in the past but usually newer cards can idle down with a 120/144hz display still. I wouldn't be surprised if 240hz+ prevents the card from idling down.

 

I have a buddy who's 3080 never hits full idle and easily uses more power just at the card doing nothing of value than any of my computers at the wall during idle.

[Jonipoo]

the overlay in geforce experience tells me how much the gpu is drawing, and it's constantly on 1770 , 9501 all the time, drawing about 120 watts all the time too

[Jonipoo]

 

49 minutes ago, Slayer3032 said:

Close all of your programs that have GPU acceleration, or disable it within that program.

 

High refresh rate displays used to also cause this in the past but usually newer cards can idle down with a 120/144hz display still. I wouldn't be surprised if 240hz+ prevents the card from idling down.

 

I have a buddy who's 3080 never hits full idle and easily uses more power just at the card doing nothing of value than any of my computers at the wall during idle.

Figured it out. It turned out that it was RTX Voice that caused the gpu too boost, probably because of gpu acceleration. i dont know what that is but thank you very much : )

[Kilrah]

Yep RTX Voice / Nvidia Broadcast do keep the GPU active anytime they're running.