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My GPU is AMD R9 270x Asus, on Asus motherboard with i7 4790. In Cinebench i get 127 average FPS but the GPU activity is averaging below 70%, to save energy i tried to turn on Vertical Refresh in AMD Catalyst so it caps FPS at 60 as my monitor is 60Mhz only.
Strange think that happened next is in Cinebench with Vertical Refresh rate the GPU was at 100% activity and running hotter while making those 59 fps average.
The question is, is it worth it to run with Vertical Refresh ON when it doesn't really lower the GPU temperature and ussage, it does the opposite, or is it only Cinebench or my computer problem? Haven't tried it in actual games yet.
A while ago with my ex-GPU Nvidia GTX 580, in Sims 3 with defualt settings it would go at 3500-4000 fps which was definitetaly damaging my GPU, then i turned the Vertical Sync(Refresh) on and it run nice on 60 fps while GPU wasn't going above 20% of activity, so that worked well on Nvidia, now im afraid to open the Sims 3 with R9 270x and no Vertical Refresh cause it might go above 6000 fps and damage my hardware or something...
Strange think that happened next is in Cinebench with Vertical Refresh rate the GPU was at 100% activity and running hotter while making those 59 fps average.
The question is, is it worth it to run with Vertical Refresh ON when it doesn't really lower the GPU temperature and ussage, it does the opposite, or is it only Cinebench or my computer problem? Haven't tried it in actual games yet.
A while ago with my ex-GPU Nvidia GTX 580, in Sims 3 with defualt settings it would go at 3500-4000 fps which was definitetaly damaging my GPU, then i turned the Vertical Sync(Refresh) on and it run nice on 60 fps while GPU wasn't going above 20% of activity, so that worked well on Nvidia, now im afraid to open the Sims 3 with R9 270x and no Vertical Refresh cause it might go above 6000 fps and damage my hardware or something...
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