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Gainward GTX 670 Phantom 2GB tested

by on28 May 2012

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Frame rate target is a function Nvidia launched with its GTX 680 series. If your favorite game isn’t very demanding and your graphics card is capable of spewing out a super high frame rate, then you can limit it to 60fps or lower. This will lower the GPU temperatures, noise and your electricity bill as well.

As you can see from the curve, we dropped below the 60fps during gaming, which meant frame rate target wasn’t active.

frameTargetGraph

The graph you see on the picture below (left) shows the workload and consumption when frame rate target is off. On the right you see what happens when frame rate target is on. GPU was utilized to about 100% until we turned on the frame rate target option, which significantly decreased it. Additionally, consumption also went down. The values you see were measured while playing AvP at 1920x1080.

frame target graph

We used EVGA’s Precision v.3.0.2. and this tool allows setting frame rate target to any value from 25fps to 120fps. Note: you must restart the application for the setting to apply. 


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