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4090 idle wattage

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I have a MSI 4090 (RTX 4090 Gaming Trio 24G to be specific). I noticed it's using aprox. 100 watts idle, the card is always hot. When I take the card out of my system, the system pulls a whole 35 watts, when it's in and idle it's 130-145 watts idle.

 

What should the normal idle wattage of a 4090 be? 100 watts seems high for idle. Things I've seen online so far doing research into this seem to show others seeing 30-40 watt idles, which is a significant difference. Also looking at some charts on this for example: https://www.techpowerup.com/review/nvidia-geforce-rtx-4090-founders-edition/39.html it seems like even 30-40 might be higher than normal at idle for a 4090? I understand this is compared to a nVIDIA founders edition card and each IHV will have different specs, but 100 seems way off for idle?

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Do you have latest drivers ? Or a fancy setup with like 3 high refresh rates monitor ? Something like Wallpaper engine running ?

My 7900XTX was at 100W idle for a time but it was drivers issues that were fixed, usually GPU on idle uses like 30W indeed, maybe 50W with WE and using Chrome...

 

 

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34 minutes ago, PDifolco said:

Do you have latest drivers ? Or a fancy setup with like 3 high refresh rates monitor ? Something like Wallpaper engine running ?

My 7900XTX was at 100W idle for a time but it was drivers issues that were fixed, usually GPU on idle uses like 30W indeed, maybe 50W with WE and using Chrome...

 

 

Current driver is the 537.13 game ready driver, no wallpaper engines, just a solid color set via windows directly. and a single 4k Dell monitor via display port. I'll also add that I did check for a new GPU firmware, as of right now it's at the latest MSI has to offer

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I had this issue one time, changing from "prefer maximum performance" to "normal" in 3D settings fixed it.  Future drivers later It wasn't necessary, but it doesn't really make all that much difference in performance.

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11 hours ago, ewitte said:

I had this issue one time, changing from "prefer maximum performance" to "normal" in 3D settings fixed it.  Future drivers later It wasn't necessary, but it doesn't really make all that much difference in performance.

"Power Management Mode" is already set to "Normal" in the NVIDIA Control Panel

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