Friday, February 16th 2018
Microsoft Adding "Ultimate Performance Mode" To Windows 10
In a blog post, Microsoft detailed some new features that have become available for Microsoft's Insider Program Fast Ring users, of which the titular "Ultimate Performance Mode" certainly wrings the most attention. The Ultimate Performance Mode is really a performance plan integrated into Windows, which basically throws all power saving features out the Window to make sure that the underlying hardware is always running at its peak performance. Microsoft says that latencies and microstutters should be reduced as much as possible, thus allowing users to wring "ultimate performance" from their systems.
Microsoft says this is focused on the Workstation market, and should be especially deployed in mission critical scenarios where every second counts (wait, doesn't gaming qualify by this measure?) As a result of this re-balancing on idle and power states, power consumption goes up; the main reason why Microsoft isn't making this feature available for battery-powered devices - at least for now. The consumer side of the equation is being left out in the cold, for now, when it comes to this Ultimate Performance Mode; but users should remain optimistic. There's no reason why Microsoft would leave this option to Workstation environments only, so a consumer-focused release (be it in the Insider Fast Ring or on the regular Windows 10 update cycles) is still out in the open.
Source:
Windows Blogs
Microsoft says this is focused on the Workstation market, and should be especially deployed in mission critical scenarios where every second counts (wait, doesn't gaming qualify by this measure?) As a result of this re-balancing on idle and power states, power consumption goes up; the main reason why Microsoft isn't making this feature available for battery-powered devices - at least for now. The consumer side of the equation is being left out in the cold, for now, when it comes to this Ultimate Performance Mode; but users should remain optimistic. There's no reason why Microsoft would leave this option to Workstation environments only, so a consumer-focused release (be it in the Insider Fast Ring or on the regular Windows 10 update cycles) is still out in the open.
26 Comments on Microsoft Adding "Ultimate Performance Mode" To Windows 10
What Microsoft should have done is enabling this mode automatically whenever a full screen D3D/OpenGL/Vulkan application is running.
I hope they'll reconsider this "solution" (more like a regression).
There is an alternative though, avast! Antivirus has a Game Mode option which switches between Balanced and Performance mode when running a game. When you close the game it switches back to Balanced. I'll poke them about this Ultimate Performance mode, if they have plans to support it in their Game Mode. This way you can't forget it in wrong mode unnecessarily.
Those Ryzens already have AMD's power plan and those with Intel can just turn off EIST/CPPC so...this is redundant?
then
CPU and GPU ramp up anyways during a 3D Application.
Considering how long android and ARM have been in development compared to Windows and x86_64 one would assume that a modern PC would learn and adapt to specific high demand applications rather then the ham fisted approach being offered by the software/hardware these days.. PC`s are being gradually retarded and mobile platforms are catching up fast. But we all knew this..
"There are 1.8 billion gamers in the world, and PC gaming dominates the market"
1.8 billion users forcefully undermining the powersaving features.. probably joining dubious blockchains (read cluster) to compute god knows who`s data for an undisclosed purpose with flyby night flavour of the month coin. (prime numbers my arse) Probably using coal fired power
So that they can offset the cost of their microtransactions in the latest horrible console port EA title.. BLEAK
so much complaining, modern hardware has idle states, some of it isnt even under control of the OS, so stop it, disable power saving in bios, mod the gpu bios, it's not like windows can control gpu power states yet NOW people want to say windows is slowing normal users down!? it's not like normal settings arent boosting to load or turbo clockspeeds either!
You need to get out more, clearly. Three perfectly negative posts in a row in one topic, and none of them have any bearing on the real world. We're in a topic about Windows 10 power saving features and you act like everyone's trying to cause the next world crisis or something.