Should I crank Power limit and Temp limit up?

[mrdeadguy34]

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[MorganO]

31 minutes ago, mrdeadguy34 said:

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no reason not too

[Simon771]

Well if you do put power limit to max, you might get more performance out of your GPU.

[mrdeadguy34]

Just now, Simon771 said:

Well if you do put power limit to max, you might get more performance out of your GPU.

But isnt it capped at the maximum mhz anyway?

 

[Simon771]

3 minutes ago, mrdeadguy34 said:

But isnt it capped at the maximum mhz anyway?

 

Well it depends. 

Lets say that max frequency is 1800MHz, but power usage goes beyond 100%. In that case, frequency will drop down, so it will keep runing at 100% power consumption. 

But if you crank power usage to max, it won't fall down from 1800MHz.

 

What GPU do you have anyway?

[mrdeadguy34]

2 minutes ago, Simon771 said:

Well it depends. 

Lets say that max frequency is 1800MHz, but power usage goes beyond 100%. In that case, frequency will drop down, so it will keep runing at 100% power consumption. 

But if you crank power usage to max, it won't fall down from 1800MHz.

 

What GPU do you have anyway?

I have an msi gaming x rx 480 8gb

[Simon771]

5 minutes ago, mrdeadguy34 said:

I have an msi gaming x rx 480 8gb

Well in that case I would push both temperature and power limit to maximum.

After that try to run some benchmark or anything to put GPU at 100% load and see what your max temp is. Hopefully it will be under 85°C.

 

And if you want to see if there is any performance increase, just download Valley benchmark and run it first with those settings that you have right now, then crank up temperature and power limit, and run benchmark again. Then you will know if it acctually gives you any more performance

[vanished]

Yeah I always max the power limit on my cards.  Unlike overclocking, this doesn't force it to run any faster, but in situations where it would have needed to draw more power to remain operating at full speed, this will allow it to when it otherwise would have dropped down in performance.  If I recall correctly, this can have an especially noticeable positive impact on 480s due to the way they are.

[mrdeadguy34]

4 hours ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

Yeah I always max the power limit on my cards.  Unlike overclocking, this doesn't force it to run any faster, but in situations where it would have needed to draw more power to remain operating at full speed, this will allow it to when it otherwise would have dropped down in performance.  If I recall correctly, this can have an especially noticeable positive impact on 480s due to the way they are.

alright man. Appreciate the answer. Didnt wanna do it just incase it screwed anything up.