Users Are Reporting That the Latest NVIDIA GeForce Driver Is Forcing Undervolting on RTX 50 Series Graphics Cards

Ironically I've been undervolting my 5090s, more or less, since last spring and I honestly think NV should've been using these settings since installing them rather than the horribly unoptomized out of box experience most folks chase after with the 3+ GHz clocks. Power draw and heat is just plain stupid at that level and for only a few percentage point gains at that. I admit that games like CB2077/RE Requiem/Indiana Jones, which use path tracing and all the other bells and whistles can still hit 400W at 4k/120 Hz but its usually not sustained and more often than not hangs in the 200-300W area. Limit FPS to 70-80 and TDP/temps gets even lower not to mention quieter.
 
I guess its a sign of the times but I don't remember ever seeing so much effort by folks to blow up a top tier, flagship, halo product before. Must be a lot more folks out there with money burning holes in their pockets and want to see the same in their rigs. Regardless of burnt/melted connectors, I've lost track of all the idiotic stories of folks pushing 1000-2000W watts through one until its destroyed and given the $3K-$5K current price tags, I just can't fathom the mentality for this. Like I said, I don't remember ever seeing the same volume of stupidity with past gens.
 
Peter_Brosdahl said:
Ironically I've been undervolting my 5090s, more or less, since last spring and I honestly think NV should've been using these settings since installing them rather than the horribly unoptomized out of box experience most folks chase after with the 3+ GHz clocks. Power draw and heat is just plain stupid at that level and for only a few percentage point gains at that. I admit that games like CB2077/RE Requiem/Indiana Jones, which use path tracing and all the other bells and whistles can still hit 400W at 4k/120 Hz but its usually not sustained and more often than not hangs in the 200-300W area. Limit FPS to 70-80 and TDP/temps gets even lower not to mention quieter.
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Without adjusting voltage my 5080 hits 3325 Mhz core and 18000 RAM. Maybe a couple degree increase in temps while gaming, but those usually settle around 65-70c. It's a decent bump in performance bringing it to within a percent or two of a 4090.

As for the drivers. I always wait a week or two before installing the latest release. In case shtuff happens.
 
Riccochet said:
Without adjusting voltage my 5080 hits 3325 Mhz core and 18000 RAM. Maybe a couple degree increase in temps while gaming, but those usually settle around 65-70c. It's a decent bump in performance bringing it to within a percent or two of a 4090.

As for the drivers. I always wait a week or two before installing the latest release. In case shtuff happens.
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I have to say I've helped more people recover from a faulty blue screening Nvidia driver update than I have AMD. It's a single case point but that's where it stands.
 
Grimlakin said:
I have to say I've helped more people recover from a faulty blue screening Nvidia driver update than I have AMD.
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AMD driver doesn't usually bluescreen. It simply reboots or the CPU will go crazy with fans spinning at max speed and you are like, what do I do! What do I do???? You can either reset the PC or power it off at that point, unless you enjoy hearing your CPU fan shrieking the life out of itself. I don't actually remember if the GPU fans are louder or the CPU one when that happens.
 
Guys they are just trying to correct the melting connectors issue and everyone cries... geeze... either you want nanny state corporate risk mitigation or you want extreme performance. How DARE you expect a released product to perform to spec WITHOUT self destructing.
 
I mean if nvidia had confidence their connectors are so good. Why not put a fully built system above Jensen's desk for people to game on in a magnesium chassis.
 
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