Undervolting Older GPUs

Testing older graphics cards at reduced voltages to see how much more efficient they can be made.

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Old graphics cards are great. Some can still run modern games - in fact, some are as good or better than brand new cards. Of course, it’s not all good news for budget builders. Powerful older cards are far less efficient than modern ones, using way more power than their performance would suggest. To improve the old card’s efficiency, it’s possible to drop the GPU’s voltage and thereby reduce power consumption - and sometimes this is even possible without reducing performance.

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00:00 Undervolting Old GPUs
00:36 The Problem With Using Old GPUs
01:40 What Is Undervolting?
02:38 Testing methodology
03:27 Test Platform: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X, 32GB DDR4-3600, B550 Motherboard
03:45 The Power Tests
03:49 Card 1: AMD Radeon RX 580 8GB (2304 SP)
04:15 Synthetic testing
05:41 Game testing
07:46 Card 2: Nvidia Geforce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB
08:20 Synthetic testing
10:09 Game testing
11:49 Card 3: Nvidia Geforce RTX 2060 6GB
12:17 Synthetic testing
13:06 Game testing
14:30 Card 4: AMD Radeon RX 6700 10GB
14:53 Synthetic testing
15:34 Game testing
16:41 How much money can you save?
17:28 Conclusion: Is undervolting old GPUs worth it?

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