Friday, February 20th 2015
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NVIDIA to Restore Overclocking on Mobile GPUs
Under pressure from users angry with NVIDIA for disabling overclocking on mobile-GPUs in the GTX 900M series, with its most recent driver update, the company decided to restore overclocking with its next driver update scheduled for March. To those who want overclocking right now (to make certain games at certain settings playable again), NVIDIA suggests reverting to the older GeForce 344.75 drivers. With the most recent driver update, NVIDIA controversially disabled overclocking on its GeForce GTX 900M mobile GPUs, causing angry comments on its GeForce user forums.
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43 Comments on NVIDIA to Restore Overclocking on Mobile GPUs
But they need to know those two should be two different persons :D
AFAIK, you can't add voltage to the mobile GPUs, so temps don't go up that much. Plus, with maxwell's temp sensors, the GPU will throttle before any damage is done.
Question is, why disable it in the first place? NVIDIA bowing to public pressure to re-enable it suggests to me that there was no good reason to block it in the first place. The graphics card belongs to the user after all not NVIDIA, so what right does NVIDIA have to block someone using their stuff how they see fit?
The fact you could overclock your laptop's graphics to good effect just emphasizes that point.
Either the non-OC driver was a bug in itself, and some company mouthpiece decided that it could be spun as a deliberate act, or the driver team screwed up at the 800M/900M launch and didn't disable OC by default. I could see some OEMs dealing with low end/mainstream parts suggesting an end to overclocking to save on warranty claims and enable them to cheap out on power supply/battery/cooling, but for those OEMs pushing overclocking as a feature it puts the pressure squarely upon them....so, somewhere along the line, someone made an autonomous decision that ought to have been pushed up the line to strategy and OEM relations.
EDIT Ya know what? I reckon the simplest answer is the most likely: overclocking can likely be enabled or disabled by setting a simple flag. The final release of the driver got signed off with the flag enabled due to quality control issues - someone missed it - and nothing more. Then all the PR cockups start as NVIDIA tries to save face.
You kind of have no faith in GPU Boost if your saying overclocking is a no-no. GPU Boost has temp fail safe and the chip itself is hard lock never to hit thermal limit. Nvidia makes you jump threw hoops now to get the most out of overclocking. By the time you get a decent one your already voiding your warranty.
But I fully believe they didn't intend to enable overclocking from the beginning. They just copied the desktop driver and forgot to disable overclocking. I'm sure it is some simple flag that is either on or off, and they forgot to turn it off when they copied the desktop driver.
GPU overclocking is not DEATH to mobile GPUs either?! why do some of yee lads say this?
My GTX 860m overclocks VERY well! 325mhz on the core and 225mhz memory clock... others with Hynix memory get up to 800mhz memory overclock...
My temps only go as high as 71-74c on MAX load.
There is more to this and the GTX 970 story, and I just hope it comes out soon.
:facepalm:
nvidia has been disabling a shitload of staff from their linux driver but since the people who know and care to yell them for those feature are not that many, nvidia keeps them of the driver.
Now..... now it's different, they know that they cannot win, so they submit to their angry customers.
An nVidia customer : I love nVidia, I hate nVidia, I love nVidia, I hate nVidia...
....and these mood swings leads to psychological problems