Simple ways to increase GPU performance for FREE

what's up guys Jays $0.02 here and I'm gonna bring you a tutorial today hopefully that'll help a lot of newbies with PC gaming get a little bit more out of their hardware without having to spend any money whatsoever I've done a series like this like several years back but there are so many new people to the channel and so many new gamers to the PC space that I decided just to do one that I think well even if you're a non a beginner and you might be able to benefit from today's video so today we're gonna talk about how to get more FPS from your graphics card for free free being the key word there you have to already have a card you don't have a card then that's not free let's just steal it but then that's I like boats so much in fact that I bought this boat the USS Iowa you can't own this boat well and world of warships I can well warships is a free play thinking man strategy game where you get to take command of some of those iconic vessels of World War one and World War two vessels 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recognize around here though not everyone can afford 2080 t is in fact you're very lucky if you can afford one of these but we're going to do today is we're going to use our trusty r-tx 2060 and not even a 2060 super we just chose this one because it's the start of the twenty cities it's got to AMD equivalent with a fifty seven hundred nan XT and what we're gonna show you now is when your GPU bound which means when your graphics card is what the system's waiting on to render any more frames I want to show you how you can get a few more percent out of it without doing the scary method of overclocking and now the people I'm talking to in this video I've many very experienced very power user followers on this channel I'm not really talking to you guys but you can watch and follow along and maybe even give some additional tips and tricks in the comments below if you guys could think of anything that I've missed here but what I'm doing is kind of recreating a very common scenario that a lot of people don't realize simple things that can improve your performance and things you're doing that can be hurting your performance and you're not even aware of it so we've got our test system here it's an 8700 K 16 gigabytes of RAM what that's doing is it's causing us to not have a CPU bottleneck but we are GPU bound that's different from bottleneck so we're also gonna make a lot of car references here because I'm a car guy and basically what we're doing is we're dynoing our graphics card and the dynamometer is whatever tests we choose to try and validate our results now in terms of results validations there's lots of different ways you can do this there's 3d mark there's you know fire strike and time spy and all that you could use actual gameplay but the problem with actual gameplay is back-to-back consistent results is very difficult on something that's not on a track so synthetics are the best way to allow us to actually measure differences in performance with making changes but at the end of the day your results are gonna vary depending on the games you play this card that you have the CPU you have so what we're showing you here in this video are things to think about and things to try and then you can see whether or not it worked for you so if some of that rationale out of the way I'm gonna go ahead and tell you we're using time spy I believe there is a free version that you can download we're only will be doing graphics tests we're gonna be caring about what happens to our graphics core and then the average fps so we need to also get a baseline but before we do that I'm gonna go and talk about what we've got open here so we've got a goo chrome window open here with one two three four five six seven eight nine tabs we've got sites of every loading you see PC Mag dis reloaded right there chrome is actually hardware accelerated if you turn off hardware acceleration it runs like crap so we're running a bunch of tabs there that I know we're gonna be using some GPU we've also got three game launchers going at the same time none of them have any downloads happening right now but the reason why I'm even bringing this up is because game launchers also have scrolling text and ads and and game demos and stuff that we're kind of playing in the background which can also all use background process and also can be hardware accelerated which can affect your performance as well but I think a lot of people because they play a lot of games will leave those launchers up sometimes you have downloads going in the background can not only affect your ping in your games but also your CPU usage if you're playing a steam game it'll pause steam downloads but it won't pause ea downloads it won't pause battlenet downloads it won't stop epic launch or downloads and then if those go to install something then that can definitely affect your performance and a lot of the launchers like to start with Windows a lot of new people that are new to PC gaming it may not be as experienced as a lot of my followers out there who are power users like myself these are tips and tricks to try and make it better for your graphics card to get as much performance out of it as possible without leaving anything on the table Windows Defender is up - we found that that's actually a pretty big one when it comes to a hit to your performance especially if you don't have a very fast CPU so what we're doing here is we are creating just a situation that is what I think very indicative of what the average user would have going on their desktop so that's that we're gonna go ahead and run and get our baseline this is our dyno test this is our before we don't know how much things have improved if we don't have a measure or a baseline to measure against so we're just gonna be doing a custom run here with graphics test 1 & 2 4 times by and then we're only concerned with the GPU score and then the average FPS that's showing underneath that score so let's go ahead and see how our baseline does so here's our baseline a graphics core of a 77090 graphics test one has a forty nine point seven nine fps and graphics test two as a forty four point five six so that's our baseline with everything running so there's some simple things we're gonna go ahead and do right here before I do listen there's some adjustments we're gonna make in the control panel for NVIDIA there's very similar settings to AMD so if you're running AMD then you can follow along with that that particular control panel to do some very similar things we're gonna start with closing all the launchers we don't need so goodbye origin goodbye battlenet goodbye Google Chrome and all your tabs so we're gonna do now is just run this test again and then we're going to see what happened to our score all right so our score went from a 77092 a 76 87 believe it or not that's still considered margin of error we're talking like less than 1% so what that at least means is that having the launchers open and then having those tabs of stuff going in Google at least didn't cause us a noticeable difference whatsoever when it comes to our graphics so we're gonna do now is we're gonna close down defender defender is one of those ones that we've seen plenty of times in the past causes problems when doing our maximum benchmarking and stuff which also means that you know that's usually when we're seeing some CPU bound stuff so I don't know what's gonna happen here I don't know if our score is gonna truly change but all I did was just going to defender turn off all the real-time protection stuff but one other thing worth pointing out too is that defender does reset itself after boot so it's going to turn itself back on every time you restart the system I think you should leave it on honestly I mean if especially if the performance isn't really impacted right now you can actually run a rigid registry edit that will turn it off permanently until the next update or it will turn itself back on because they've caught on to Phil's tricks that's what Phil likes to do but depending on how much of a performance increase we see right here if any will determine whether or not you should leave it on at all so as you can see closing the fender actually didn't really have any improvement on our score that's okay because all we do is close some programs and as you can see at least in this particular setup the CPU is certainly able to handle the programs running as well as the FPS that is 2060 can send at it may be a different story if we were dealing with a twenty atti when it comes to having a CPU bottleneck but that would then be a video about how to alleviate CPU bottlenecks not so much about how to speed up your graphics card so what we're gonna do now is we are gonna right click on our desktop we're gonna go to Nvidia control panel the very first thing we're gonna adjust here is going to be manage 3d settings which is already highlighted and we're gonna scroll down to where it says power management mode it's probably gonna say optimal or adaptive depending on the graphics card that you have and then we're going to click prefer maximum performance the other thing we're gonna do is come down about five spots below that go to filter texture quality and we're gonna go from quality to high performance that makes it sound like you're gonna get a fuzzier image by clicking that I there is no discernible difference whatsoever with image quality between quality and high performance so when we are doing our max overclocked testing and stuff when we're trying to get every single point out of our score that we can this actually ended up causing us several hundred points of improvement with the level of overclocking that we were achieving so this is something I feel like you should always have on on your own your graphics card but what you might notice is that you might have a little bit higher idle temperatures depending on your graphics card if you have a custom card with lots of fans it's gonna be fine but what it's doing is it's it's not being so stingy with the power limit and the power draw now by just by changing those two settings we're gonna go ahead and see what happens to our score so we went from a seventy six ninety to a 78 54 that's a pretty significant score jump you can see we got a little bit of FPS improvement actually about one FPS or one-and-a-half fps and then about a solid one on the graphics test - you'd be surprised what one FPS improvement can do in a score on time spy but that's no we're not done there remember that MSI Afterburner thing I mentioned that's a free piece of software that you can download and it works with AMD and NVIDIA alike and you can do some very simple adjustments to actually get yourself a lot more performance now here's the thing I'm talking about not overclocking we're gonna do just a quick dirty overclock at the end for those that are brave enough to move some sliders but MSI Afterburner I get this question a lot MSI Afterburner all it does is read with the maximum values allowed are via the graphics card bios so you can't hurt your graphics card by attempting to overclock using msi afterburner the BIOS will not let you go farther in terms of voltage and power limit and power draw then the card will allow yes you can go farther than the core clock can be stable you can go farther the memory is stable and then what will happen is when you restart your system if you have that little button check right there that says startup little windows button if you have a stupid setting like plus 1000 on the core which I don't think you can do anyway but then if you have that selected as soon as Windows loads it if it can't get to the desktop because it's crashing before it gets there then all you do is force yourself to boot into safe mode delete MSI Afterburner and then you can restart the system and you're fine so we're gonna do right now is we're going to click this little gear which is going to take us into our menu settings and then we're just going to go ahead and click unlock voltage control unlock voltage monitoring and force constant voltage that's not going to have any effect quite honestly on the amount of voltage being pushed to our system but without unlocking voltage monitoring and stuff we can't even see if we're getting voltage limits and stuff now the way GPUs work including AMD and you know both Nvidia is they have boost algorithms they have a logic in them that says if power limit and temperature and voltage are not at their maximum 's then allow frequency to increase till either those maximums are met or the max table frequency is met in this case it's always frequency frequency is the thing that gets affected by any of those things I just mentioned so we're gonna do right now is we are gonna take our power limit everything you've seen so far is with these stock settings power limit to 100% temp limit at 83 83 is where we would start to see core clocks drop dramatically if we go above that and then this is fan curve right there so we're gonna go ahead and take our power limit and move it all the way to the right and you'll notice temperature moves with it because they are linked we're gonna touch anything else we're just gonna see what that along with one other thing fan curve fan curve is important if you're asking for more temperature and you're asking for more voltage let the fans do their job it's like trying to it's like trying to add all kinds of power to an engine but not in crew improving its cooling you're just asking for problems so we can click this fan tab click enable user-defined and then this is one I've already gone into find it's a 50% idle and then it ramps up fairly aggressively I can actually click that box and hit delete that's a very aggressive curve it's gonna ramp up very quickly but at 60 degrees we would be at roughly 75 percent fan speed so just by changing those three things power limit temp limit and fan curve let's see what effect that had on our score so our new scores in eight thousand thirty seven we gained another FPS on both I can't stress how hard it is to gain one or two fps and these scores the biggest thing we found with graphics cards today is temperature the lower you can get the temperature the longer will maintain those higher clocks the very first step down happens at like 25 Celsius which is kind of ridiculous so that's where you would be done and it's up to you to determine whether or not the little bit of fps that you've gained is worth the effort unfortunately it's not much effort you can save these things in msi afterburner and they could start every time you start windows you're up and running every time but because we were brave around here and we like to go for broke we are gonna move these sliders so core vault core voltage is being moved all the way to a hundred percent I am gonna do plus 100 on the core that's now allowing it to go 100 megahertz higher I've never had a card from Nvidia that didn't do a hundred plus 100 and then for memory clock this believe it or not has usually a bigger impact on performance than core clock so we're gonna do plus 500 on this particular card because I know that the memory that's used in the founders edition cards can handle it again your mileage is going to vary so plus 100 on the core plus 500 on the memory and an increase of 400 points and an actual measurable increase in FPS because we were willing to move the core slider and the mem o'clock this is the one that I have most fun with and obviously this has the most improvement oh you couldn't move those sliders for overclocking stuff without moving the temp limit and power limit those have to all kind of go together otherwise you're asking for more core but you're already limited anyway so you have to move those together we're still gonna see single-digit FPS improvements in 1440 with this particular card but if you're anything like us you like to tinker it's the same reason why I tear the engines apart on my cars and go for more power and stuff oh it's completely unnecessary but it's fun so if you guys thought this video was helpful what's going to give it a like and maybe share it with someone that you think could benefit from this and that guy said at the start of this video if you're one of those power users that have really good tips and tricks that maybe we didn't talk about here that can give tangible improvements to people's gaming experiences on their cards for free then please comment down below but don't put links to things we've already discussed what happens if you put links down there your comment disappears it goes into the youtube void

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Length: 15min 26sec (926 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 27 2019