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[–] sploosh@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

My 7800xt pulls about 230 watts at full bore, giving me my monitor's refresh rate in FPS, 144. Limiting the framerate to 72 results in no tearing and drops the GPU watts to 170. Worth it.

[–] fahfahfahfah@lemmy.billiam.net 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Halving your frame rate is worth approximately a cent an hour?

[–] huginn@feddit.it 9 points 1 year ago

Just consider! If you're gaming 80 hours a week you could save $3.50 off your monthly bill. 12 hours a day gaming, such savings!

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean for those of us who don't need anything higher than 60, yeah

[–] fahfahfahfah@lemmy.billiam.net 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The comment I was replying to had a 144hz monitor

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, I read that comment. They also said it was worth reducing the frame rate to save 60 watts

[–] CucumberFetish@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Adding a frame limiter and dropping the resolution a bit saves me 200W. Yay RTX3090

[–] dlok@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)