Nvidia’s RTX 4090 can have its power usage tamed considerably while still delivering most of the performance you get at default levels, according to some fresh testing. Quasarzone (opens in new tab) conducted tests (as flagged by Hardware Times (opens in new tab)) to ascertain the frame rates the RTX 4090 managed in a selection of five games at 4K resolution (max details) at its out-of-the-box settings – and a power usage of 347W – before comparing that to what the graphics card hit with the power limit manually adjusted downwards in steps. Limiting power usage to 326W (a power limit setting of 80%) saw frame rates remain at 99.
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