I don't see the usefulness though. The adaptive option is just the default setting we have today. The other option maximizes performance and power consumption. There doesn't seem to be an option to force lower performance and power consumption than we have already.
No. The adaptive option has been disabled for quite some time. ((read earlier in this thread)) Its only been reimplemented since the drivers gave the ability to shut it off. People were unhappy that they had no control over it. See Nvnews thread which is an example of feedback I collected from various websites. So Nvidia disabled the feature all together in the early 18x.xx sets. Alot of people wanted the ability to toggle this feature off and on. The benefit is the GPUs will run several degrees cooler when running CPU limited applications. Those who play MMORPGs that are CPU limited won't have their GPUs running full clocks all the time when its not doing anything. But of course there are other examples. Thats just one apt to me.
If the GPU is actually under load. The drivers will run under full clocks. The toggle option. Simply allows the driver to force itself to full clocks all the time regardless of whether the GPU is under load in any app that uses DirectX/OpenGL. A "low" power mode is actually being discussed. Where the clocks are "always" throttled. But like anything. Theres a schedule for the way software gets turned/release and then it has to go through QA.
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