High clocks vs high load

[jjohnthedon1]

What is better for temps higher corse speed with lower load or slower cores with higher load

 

for example I can run overwatch at 144hz with my cards underclocked too 1200mhz but the load is high

 

wouldbthey run cooler at 1485mhz because the load would be lower 

[Emberstone]

Yeah, GPU usage being high is good. It means your GPU is doing the work it was designed for, and nothing is hindering it. Usually overclocking by itself doesn't affect load since it doesn't drastically alter the performance of a card in most cases. If I run Doom with stock clocks on my GTX 1070, it sits at full load. If I OC it, it still sits at full load.

[Mira Yurizaki]

You have to look at it from an overall point of view rather than at the moment.

 

Let's say both 1200 MHz and 1485MHz can achieve 100 FPS, but they're both loaded differently. The key point is they're both reaching 100 FPS. So let's just do some math, divide 100 / 1200 and 100 / 1485. You get something like 0.08333.. and 0.0673400673400... And we'll just convert this to percentage because why not. So 8.33% and 6.73% load for those cases. However, for the remainder of the time they're not doing anything and we're not going to let the GPU downclock.

 

However since we're saying the GPU is only going to spit out 100FPS (maybe your monitor is 60Hz and the game finds it silly to render more frames), this means the faster GPU spends more time doing nothing, but using more energy than the slower GPU because frequency is a large factor in power consumption.

 

It's like this, you can only produce 100 cars a day because reasons. Your workers also must work 8 hours a day because reasons. If your worker line can produce all of the cars in 6 hours, you're paying them the two hours to sit around doing nothing. You want them to produce all of the cars as close to 8 hours as possible.