Thursday, November 8th 2018
NVIDIA Finally Fixes Multi-Monitor Power Consumption of Turing GeForce 20. Tested on RTX 2070, 2080 and 2080 Ti.
Today, NVIDIA released their GeForce 416.81 drivers, which among others, contains the following changelog entry: "[Turing GPU]: Multi-monitor idle power draw is very high. [2400161]". Back at launch in September, Turing was plagued with very high non-gaming power consumption, in both single-monitor and multi-monitor idle.
The company was quick to fix single-monitor power consumption, which we tested promptly. Unfortunately, at the time, multi-monitor power draw wasn't improved and people were starting to get worried that there might be some kind of unfixable issue present on Turing that would prevent NVIDIA from fixing multi-monitor power draw.
Using today's 416.81 drivers I did a few quick runs for power consumption on all three existing GeForce 20 SKUs; the RTX 2070, RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti.
As you can see, multi-monitor power consumption is finally back at normal levels. Good job, NVIDIA! While the power draw of Pascal cards is still a little bit lower, the differences are now negligible, and won't have any significant effect on power usage, power bill, temperatures, or the environment.
I also did a run measuring single-monitor idle power - no changes here, but not needed either. In case you wonder, since these changes are part of the driver, nothing special will have to be done for custom boards from the various NVIDIA partners. No BIOS update needed, just install the 416.81 drivers and multi-monitor power consumption will go down by more than half.
The company was quick to fix single-monitor power consumption, which we tested promptly. Unfortunately, at the time, multi-monitor power draw wasn't improved and people were starting to get worried that there might be some kind of unfixable issue present on Turing that would prevent NVIDIA from fixing multi-monitor power draw.
Using today's 416.81 drivers I did a few quick runs for power consumption on all three existing GeForce 20 SKUs; the RTX 2070, RTX 2080 and RTX 2080 Ti.
I also did a run measuring single-monitor idle power - no changes here, but not needed either. In case you wonder, since these changes are part of the driver, nothing special will have to be done for custom boards from the various NVIDIA partners. No BIOS update needed, just install the 416.81 drivers and multi-monitor power consumption will go down by more than half.
31 Comments on NVIDIA Finally Fixes Multi-Monitor Power Consumption of Turing GeForce 20. Tested on RTX 2070, 2080 and 2080 Ti.
Edit: And thanks for retesting.
btw on all my pc with w10 all license deactivaed.
A few years back, the video cards didn't know how to sync with displays at all when two monitors were connected so they just ran full-throttle :D
The thing is, video cards tend to spend at least half the time idling, so idle power draw tends to draw (pun intended) my attention.
/troll
Researcher found how to use Nvidia GPU to spy on browser activity, steal passwords
I salute you.
Just hang in there, soon you will have your secret synthetic frogman chromosome ready for injection as we discussed.
We name it "the tongue beats where the tooth aches" symptom. Many AMD fans have that problem. No cure ATM, sorry.
I think as well you're in the best position to troll (or semi-troll tbh). I clearly recall how pro-AMD you were about Fury X. Then you got one and were disappointed with it. You then went green and are happy. Actual experience of each top end (at the time) gives you a sheriffs badge to wear when it comes to Nvidia/AMD GPU conflicts.
Granted, I run 1440p@165Hz and 1440p@60Hz side-by-side with an additional UHD 4K TV attached occasionally.