NVidia App

[Imago]

Today NVidia released their new App to help us overclocking our RTX 4090 Super to the max ( ) and I immediately got a doubt: It's something useful or it's just the old NVidia GeForce Experience renamed?

I would like to overclock my GPU but also I never install GeForce Experience since it's an itrusive and quite system demanding thing.

[porina]

It is a successor to GFE and will eventually combine everything in the control panel into it. In some ways it is similar but that's expected as you want the stuff you had before. New is an auto-overclock mode. I can't speak how effective it is. Tried it once on 4070, it made hardly any difference so I didn't bother using it.

 

If you want to manually overclock you can still do it through transitional means if you want to.

[wunagy]

It overclocked my 4080 Super a little bit. I'm curious, if anybody knows, what determines how much it can be auto overclocked via the app?

[Imago]

4 minutes ago, wunagy said:

It overclocked my 4080 Super a little bit. I'm curious, if anybody knows, what determines how much it can be auto overclocked via the app?

It does a sort of "autotest" and automatically finds the right overclock settings.

But that's not what I asked.

Someone knows if it's safe installing that or it's just another spyware that gets everything I do with my PC (and also adds another open door on my system, since it needs to be constantly online in order to work)?

[wunagy]

1 minute ago, Imago said:

It does a sort of "autotest" and automatically finds the right overclock settings.

But that's not what I asked.

Someone knows if it's safe installing that or it's just another spyware that gets everything I do with my PC (and also adds another open door on my system, since it needs to be constantly online in order to work)?

Nobody can really answer that. It is additional software. It is more than likely collecting a lot of information about you and your usage. Try it and determine for yourself. If you find the features useful than that's your answer. If you're using it only to update your drivers, then I'd rather do it manually.

 

It can OC your GPU tho quite modestly. You can also do it yourself without the Nvidia App.

 

I avoided GeForce Experience and finally downloaded the Nvidia App when the beta was over. So far I like it and decided to keep it.

[porina]

9 minutes ago, Imago said:

Someone knows if it's safe installing that or it's just another spyware that gets everything I do with my PC (and also adds another open door on my system, since it needs to be constantly online in order to work)?

It is as safe as any software from a large organisation. If that sounds a bit vague, it is. Basically it comes down to you reading their privacy and data collection policies and if you trust them to follow that. MS probably grabs far more "telemetry". Basically unless you have some interesting metallic headwear, just click accept without reading anything like 99.99% of others.

 

I don't think it needs to be always online but to be honest I can't recall the last time I used an offline system. They have also removed the requirement from GFE of being logged in.

[DSD27]

They removed the functionality to trim your gameplay videos, upload to YouTube and stream to Twitch. WTF Nvidia...

[Ollie J]

On 11/13/2024 at 11:06 AM, wunagy said:

It overclocked my 4080 Super a little bit. I'm curious, if anybody knows, what determines how much it can be auto overclocked via the app?

The Nvida app will overclock the following for your GPU:- 

+165 MHz clock speed 

+200 MHz VRAM 

Then a manual overclock would be the following for your GPU:- 

+215 MHz clock speed 

+1420 MHz VRAM 

 

I hope this helps, sorry for the late reply, but this may help some other users. Expect a +/- tolerance on these numbers by around 5%