How To UNDERVOLT Your GPU - The Ultimate Easy Guide 2024 (Nvidia GPU)

how's it going everyone it is Pango here and in this video I'm bringing you the ultimate Nvidia GPU undervolting guide undervolting is one of if not the most important optimization I recommend to everyone you'll see no performance loss and in some games you could even see a small FPS increase the main benefits of applying a GPU undervolt is to lower the overall power draw from the GPU which will lower the temperature of the GPU and keep GPU boost clocks higher for longer this will result in more consistent performance and higher 1% and. 1% lows because your system isn't throttling itself and potentially drawing back performance because it's getting too hot it's a win-win scenario across the board whether it be for desktop users laptop users those of you on RTX 490s all the way down to lower-end laptop gpus there's efficiency gains to be had across the board tired of seen the activate Windows Watermark buil a new PC or just want to own windows at a major discount head over to hookies to 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undervolted 490 would be able to achieve the exact same 2820 MHz core clock but at a reduced voltage of 950 MTS to 975 in this instance you're seeing anywhere from a 19 to 25% decrease to overall power usage from the 1490 at the exact same frame rate the only things you need for an undervolt is one or two of your your favorite games that we can utilize for testing and msis After Burner Google search MSI After Burner head over to this link do not download this from any other source download and install MSI After Burner throughout the installation process you may be prompted to install the raver tuna statistic server or rtss you want to opt into this and install this as well once that's set up restart your PC and come back get down towards the bottom search for MSI After Burner quickly need to do a small bit of setup with inside of it go over to the left hand side to the small settings Cog we first of all need to ensure that unlock voltage control and unlock voltage monitoring have been set once selected go to the bottom select apply restart the application as prompted then head over to the settings Cog once again this time heading over to the monitoring section at the Top If you have an integrated GPU such as Intel graphics on your PC you may see GPU 1 and gpu2 with inside of here you're always going to be going with either GPU or GPU 1 if you see gpu2 don't bother selecting that option because that will be your integrated Graphics to quickly and easily see if you have multiple gpus on your system or What GPU number your actual graphics card is go to towards the save section at the bottom to the small up arrow and click inside of here for me you can see I have gpu1 which is my RTX 490 which I will be undervolting underneath this I have GPU 2 as I have integrated graphics on this system as well so for me I'm going to be utilizing GPU 1 when I'm selecting any of the overlays in the monitoring section of MSI afterburners first of we're going to start off with GPU temperature make sure that the box to the left hand side of this is checked once highlighted go down to the box that says show in onscreen display once that's completed head to GPU usage show in onscreen display GPU core clock showing onscreen display GPU power showing onscreen display GPU voltage for this setting you will need to take the box then select voltage then select show an onscreen display then scroll down towards the bottom until you find frame rate put this on the onscreen display go to the bottom and select apply once that's set up head up to the top two on screen display click on the box that says None then press any key on your keyboard to set this up as a key bind for me that's going to be slash then last but not least use the arrow keys at the top to scroll further to the right until you find user interface go to the bottom to skin scaling you can adjust this you make MSI after of to burner bigger or smaller on your screen set that to your personal preference select apply and okay head to the bottom search for rtss or Runa if the application doesn't open up immediately go to the bottom to your task icon tray then select the blue monitor with the small FPS counter for R tuner on the top left hand side select start with Windows to on show on screen display on and you can then finally adjust the onscreen display zoom using this slider here I like to have it set to about halfway and that's it for the initial setup of MSI after burner and runer at this point you need to boot into your benchmark or game you're going to be using to test and apply the undervolt if you are choosing to boot into a game make sure that the game is relatively modern and it's got decent Graphics Fidelity because we want to apply a pretty heavy load to the GPU it also helps if the game doesn't have an FPS cap if you're going with a benchmark you can find any looping benchmarks in the 3D Mark Suite or use something like unen heaven or super position set to benchmarking mode on a Lo once you've booted into your game if you don't see the overlay on the top left hand side you'll need to press the hotkey you set up in the overlay menu earlier we have the current GPU temperature we have the current GPU usage we have the GPU score clock which will be different for everyone watching this video we have the GPU power draw and the GPU voltage which for me is 1.050 your numbers will be completely different so don't compare your numbers to mine to start the undervolting process we first of all need to see the voltage and core clock your GPU is using under normal operation so let the game or Benchmark run for a few minutes until it reaches a baseline if you were unable to select voltage monitoring inside of MSI After Burner if you're on a gaming laptop or a PC that doesn't support it don't worry too much about not being able to see the voltage with inside of the game because we can still apply this method anyway now my system is giving me 2790 megaherz at 1.05 volt easiest thing you can do is open up a notepad on your PC phone or a physical notepad and pen and write down those numbers so I was getting 2790 MHz at 1.05 Vols again your numbers will be completely different once you've got those numbers we can start undervolting head back inside of MSI After Burner with the game still running in the background then head down to the bottom left to curve editor this can look quite intimidating but it's actually very simple and easy to use on the left hand side we have the gpu's core clock and at the bottom we have the voltage required for each step in the core clock so to undervolt our GPU we just need to make this graph more efficient if you're a laptop user and you can't monitor the voltage on your system you'll head over to the left hand side to the core frequency let's say you were getting 1900 MHz you'd follow that line until it crosses over so for me 1900 MHz is here and that means that my GPU would have been using 0.79 Vols that's how you would go about finding the voltage on a laptop which doesn't support voltage monitoring so once you know the voltage your system was drawing is stuck we're going to keep the same core clock but reduce the voltage so first thing we're going to do is try the exact same core so write that down again for me that was 2790 but we're going to be reducing the voltage by 50 mols which for me will be 1.0 so all we need to do is head over to the VF curve editor go to the bottom and find the reduced voltage you're going to be testing out for your system I'm going to be going with one volt which I can find here then follow the arrow up until you find the vol voltage frequency Point click and select this and you'll notice on the left hand side that the core clock for this point is slightly lower so we need to increase this just simply hold shift on your keyboard click the voltage point and start dragging the entire curve up we're then going to drag it up until the core clock on the left hand side matches the one we had at stock operation so for me that's 2790 so as you can see we have 2790 MHz on the left for my GPU at 1 volt at the bottom which is a reduction of 50 Ms we then need to flatten the rest of the curve to stop the GPU boosting further you can do this simply and easily by holding shift on your keyboard highlighting the voltage point you selected by clicking the mouse and dragging and also including all of the voltage points to the right then hold shift in your keyboard again and press enter twice this will then flatten out the rest of the curve which we want once that's done go back to MSI select apply going back inside of my game at the top left hand side you can now see that I'm running at 1 volt at the exact same frequency we were running at before let this run for anywhere between 1 to 3 minutes we just want to see if it's initially stable we'll test for stability later on and find un adjustments if needed but we first of all need to find the limits of your GPU if your GPU is stable at - 50 Ms we're going to repeat this step and take away 25 molts until the GPU crashes I'm now going to try out 2790 MHz but with a reduction of 25 mols which will now be 0.975 volts so I can set that in my curve editor now we'll quickly reset this head back over to the curve editor find the voltage you're going to be setting for me that's 975 follow the line up to the voltage frequency curve point and again on the left hand side I need to increase the Coe clock back to what it was operating at stock on my system hold shift grab the frequency Point drag this up until you get to that stock frequency which for me was 2790 once that's set highlight every VF Point including the one you've adjusted to the right let go hold shift again then press enter twice once the rest of the frequency curve is flattened out exit out of the curve editor select apply at this point you can see for me it's now running at 0.975 volts at the exact same frequency once again test this for 1 to 3 minutes and if it doesn't crash we'll repeat that step by taking away 25 Ms into until it does once you've reached the point of crashing we then need to add some voltage back to ensure that the GPU is stable so for me my GPU at stock mehz crashed at 0.95 volts so that was unstable so this time I'm going to try out the exact same core frequency but instead I'm going to try out a slightly higher voltage by adding about 10 molts back 0.960 so once again head to the curve editor reset it at this point I'm going between the two frequencies where I crashed so I'm going to head up until I find a voltage point at about 960 which is here I'm then going to shift drag the entire curve up to the desired frequency once again highlight all voltage frequency points you've adjusted and to the right of that hold shift double press enter to flatten the curve exit out apply that to the system so after multiple tests my game is no longer crashing at 0.97 Vol this seems initially stable on my system and it hasn't crashed but it may still need some fine tuning on other games or over time until it's completely died in for 100% stability once you found a relatively stable undervolt save the profile you navigate down to the save icon once selected go to the right hand side where you can save this to other the profile 1 2 3 three four or five select profile one for now at any point you can boot into MSI After Burner click profile one on the right hand side then select apply so as you can see at this point we're getting the exact same stock core frequency or speed of the GPU but we're now running at 80 molts less at this point you then need to do some real world testing boot into some of your favorite games run some benchmarks maybe even do some before and after tests if you run into any weird instances of unstable FPS lower than usual FPS or outright game crashes all you need to do is head back over to the curve editor and increase the voltage of your undervolt by about 10 MTS at a time if some of my games are crashing at 0.97 volts then all I would do is up this to 0.98 select apply then select save and overwrite the first profile with the updated undervolt which is more stable after applying this and doing extensive testing on my systems utilizing the games and programs on screen now here are my final results for undevelop method 1 on all three of the systems I've applied this to at that point youve successfully applied method one for under method 2 this is incredibly simple and easy to apply in MSI After Burner if you have the option for power limit percentage and you can adjust this then you can set method 2 unfortunately on some pre-built systems or gaming laptops you might not have the option to adjust power limit and unfortunately you will only be able to use method one on those systems it's not as efficient as method 1 it's not even technically an undervolt but it's a great tool to have for very quick and effective results all that's required of you is to navigate down to the power limit percentage select the chain link option to break the chain I would increase the temperature limit to the maximum available this is locked via the bios so you can't set this to dangerous levels then adjust the power limit lower for Effective results I would utilize a power limit of 80% for those of you on any NVIDIA GTX series card RTX 20 series or RTX 30 series if you're on an RTX 40 series or newer set the power limit down to 70% go down towards the bottom select apply utilize the MSI overlay we utilized earlier on to see your in-game FPS and power draw of the GPU if there is quite a drastic performance difference we can slightly make up for that with method 2 by applying a small increase to the core clock at the lower power limit navigate over to core clock mehz and increase this by 50 select apply if 50 seems stable in practically all games you're playing you could potentially increase this up to 100 test out your games if you run into any weird FPS issues stuttering or game crashes reduce the core clock megahertz back down to 50 or back down to zero until it becomes stable again once you're happy with method 2 head down to the save icon go to the right hand side then select profile 2 to save that to the second profile if you've set up both method one and two you can then switch between the two at any time by selecting the profile once it's selected go to the bottom to apply the profile you're then good to go if you're serious about efficiency and want silky smooth gameplay the best thing you can do for efficiency is capping your FPS in all of your games capping FPS is a fantastic way to drop off unnecessary load on the GPU for this example we have OverWatch 2 running at 600 FPS without any undervolting in the middle we have OverWatch 2 running at 600 FPS with our method 1 undervolt then on the right hand side we have OverWatch 2 capped at 160 FPS which is this monitor's refresh rate I'm playing at the settings I would typically play at the GPU is using 1/3 of the stock power whether you're looking to cap FPS at your monitor's refresh rate or further maximize efficiency by capping your FPS just slightly below your monitor's maximum refresh rate with a proper g-sync or freesync setup here are some more examples on the other systems we' have applied our under VA volts 2 the best values to cap FBS at if you're not using g-sync or freesync is a multiple of your refresh rate let's say you have a 120 HZ monitor you'd want to cap at 60 120 or 240 FPS if you do have a gsync or freesync setup you would want to cap FPS 3 FPS lower than your monitor's maximum refresh rate so if you want the absolute best efficiency for your PC lower temperatures lower power bills and more consistent performance and potentially less FPS stutter and low FPS my number one recommendation would be to apply an undervolt from either method 1 or method 2 then cap your FPS to a suitable value if you decide that you no longer want to have any of the undervolt profiles navigate over to the reset button select this once done close out of MSA after burner once your undervolt is completely dialed in you've played with it for a few days you've made sure that all of your favorite games work and your you're confident that it's 100% stable you can have Windows automatically open MSI and apply the undervolt profile so you never have to worry about this again and get all of the efficiency gains navigate on the left hand side to the settings Cog select start with Windows start minimized select apply then go to the top right hand side to the Windows button select this it should then light up blue and there you guys have it let me know if your GPU specs and results for your unol methods in the comment section down below and what sort of performance difference and power draw difference you were able to see on your system if you are interested in other contents similar to this please do check out the playlist section in the description down 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Length: 14min 37sec (877 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 11 2023