*UPDATE 2021-03-24:* MSI Afterburner just updated how their GUI looks like but it's the exact same process just the buttons looks different and might be located slightly differently. You can still follow it without any issues (the important things in the video remain the same) but to make it easier you can go to Settings -> User Interface -> Look for skin and choose MSI Cyborg Afterburner Skin White by Drerex Design. Then it should be exactly as you see in the video. One detail I forgot to mention that is super useful is when you open MSI Afterburner around the top right region there's a windows button and you should press this button to apply your undervolt profile at boot (press this after you've tested it like I showed in the video). Also on the right side of MSI Afterburner there is 5 different "Profile" where you can also save different presets that you've found to work well for your GPU. *CORRECTIONS* - I said microvolts but it's millivolts, my bad!
Hello! Thank you for the very nice tutorial. +1 subscriber, you earned it! One question please. Why do we choose the -250 value? Could it be something lower like -350? Whats the explanation behind that value?
Absolutely the best step by step video I've seen regarding getting better temp's on the 3080 TI was constantly 80c now 65 -70, 850mw 1850 core clock , I appreciate it very much
I know this video is already 9 months old, but I just wanted to give my thanks to you for this step by step guide. It really helped me bring my laptop's temperature down from mid 80's - low 90s to 64-70 at it's highest. I'm using a MSI GE76 RAIDER with a Nvidia 3060 and I was worried I would have to deal with the high temperatures forever. You just gave a lot more time to this machine's life expectancy lmao. Thank you so much for the guide.
@Kane Apologies, I seem to have gotten the notification today. I had a 2% decrease in performance when comparing my benchmarks. However, I have not noticed this performance drop during my gaming sessions. Everything seems to be running just fine for now while keeping a steady 64°C while gaming.
@@yuvrajsinghpalh3424 sure. I set the speed at 1782 with a voltage of 825. This gave me about 98% performance for much lower temperatures. And in all cases I don't see that 2% difference so far. Hope that helped.
@@PatamonofHope hey, really need your help. Does your laptop still runnning smooth ?. Idk why in just 5 mins my temp reach 100°c . And i still havent try this undervolt. My gpu are same like you rtx 3060 laptop gpu. All my game were stuttering and dropping fps from 60 fps to 30 fps. Even at low setting. Could you please help me since you and i have a same gpu
@@rafitohornero3850 Yes. My PC is still running smoothly. I have seen it fluctuate the Temps depending on the games. Low demanding games usually go to the 50s to mid 60 degrees. While the most demanding ones can get a steady 71 and in some cases go 80 degrees. Though that last temp is usually with Elden Ring on High Settings. Barely any stutters outside of the first minute of Elden Ring due to the map loading. Other games don't stutter at all for now.
@@lukaszdm3367 may I ask which card it is? And if it's an OEM, cause if so you could get a custom cooler, having bad temps is really risky and will destroy it slowly, chiping away it's life
Honestly bro i got a 3 speed desk fan that has legs more or less hooked on the back of my pc blastin air and it legit made my 1080 go from 70c to 54c. You can use a lot of external sources before you go under the hood. Especially if the inside of a pc intimidates you its nice to know you can get a 2tb external ssd that writes as fast as an internal one. Box fans work great too if you got it on the floor.
if its a new GPU & you are new to PC gaming, undervolting isnt something you should automatically jump to. Airflow inside your PC case & a custom fan curve should be all you need to fix, for normal temps.
My GPU was pulling 1037mV. Fans just going crazy over hight temps. I have got it down to 900mV VERY stable and my temps have dropped 15c in some cases and 10c in most. Fans are quiet and even my CPU has dropped a few C from the cooler temps. Thank you for this guide. It was great! I had the same result about a 1% drop in performance but it is well worth the temps and quiet fans.
Amazing guide. The numbered steps made it much easier to follow than other videos who just did things. Results below: Minimum 40% less power consumption. Temperature down 18 degrees Celsius. And obviously much less loud since the fans don't have to work as hard to cool the GPU anymore. All this for 6% less performance. The GPU I was working with was a factory overclocked Zotac 2X sized 2060. Thank you so much for the video!! You've made my life a little bit better and a lot less noisy :) Edit: Turns out stability in unigen heaven doesnt exactly translate to other games haha. Had to adjust a bit after games started to crash. New numbers: 30% less power consumption, 15 degrees celcius less and obviously less noise than stock. 5-7% less performance
@@henriquecesar482 Hmm, haven't really changed anything since the last update. If anything, I'm _still_ grateful from time to time for the fact that there's so much less noise, even on longer gaming sessions. Just goes to show how much the noise was affecting me even if I didn't think so at the time. Definitely going to be undervolting every card I get from this point on
Went from 95°C to 80°C max in games on my MSI Laptop with 1050 Ti Max-Q, thanks. Though I did it a bit differently: first, shift + drag the node above the desired voltage up to the best frequency (just as he explained, this is the frequency before throttle), second, flatten the rest post that voltage. I stopped at 900mV @ 1670 MHz, probably could have gone further but decided not to, good enough for me
I was having temp issues with temps pushing 80-82. I replaced the thermal paste on the GPU and temps are now always below 70 at max voltage. Just another option that’s out there. I like your video- never thought about undervolting but it makes sense.
Replacing the thermal paste is oftentimes effective but requires a bit of work. If undervolting doesn't help to a sufficient degree I think the second option would be to replace thermal paste
@@sabretoothx3949 Nowp... You're wrong... Undervolting is safe and maintain your card under warranty. On the other side, replacing your thermal paste is a physical modification of the product so it will break your warranty. Undervolting is clearly a better solution to improve your graphic card temps and on the same time keep your warranty OK.
Thank you very much sir! I was so frustrated with my pc build. My 2080 was always running hot and fans were super loud. I tried changing the fans, opening the case, controlling the fan speed... nothing. Undervolting was the solution for me. Even playing apex legends with 144fps the gpu never goes higher than 75° and the fans are super quiet. It’s like a whole new pc build. This is amazing! Thank you again!
bro i play apex on an mx250 laptop recently my game started dropping frames after 10 mins of playing do u think undervolting the gpu will help solve that?
@@GarBageGhosteeE kinda. The actual issue there is that your gpu is overheating, and it only started recently, I'm fairly certain it's due to dust build up. What you should actually do first is open up your laptop and clean the insides, that should give waaaaay better temps, and therefore reduce throttling. If that doesn't work then you can try undervolting.
never left a comment on a video before watching this one. my 1660ti was hitting 83 degrees on warzone and now its at 73. thank you so much for the easy to follow video!
This is a year old, and the UI has changed, but this totally worked for me. I balanced it out from hitting 84-85 degrees down to under 70 for an EVGA FTW3 3090 Ultra.
thank you for posting this. you got got my 3080 ti down from 78-70 @ ultra high settings down to 73-74. great video and appreciate that you did not rush through the tutorial and took your time.
super useful, thank you! I built my first PC with a 3070ti and followed your guide and noticed a reduction in temperature on the Heaven benchmark while maintaining performance. On gaming, the GPU runs now much cooler!
I bought a renewed EVGA 2070 super XC and it kept crashing while gaming randomly. As soon as I lowered the memory clock a tiny bit and core clock it works perfect!!! Thank you!!
Thank you so much for making this! I've been insanely paranoid about my gpu temps for months and custom fan curves weren't doing anything but my temps are now down a significant amount
I honestly cant thank you enough, I got red dead 2 for my newly built pc with a 3080 and when i got into the game i noticed my temps were going as high as 76-80 celsius, and being a 3080 i was a bit nervous and didnt want it going that high for lets say 2-3hours at a time, so I decided to look into this undervolting thing and its saved me my sanity! My gpu now is at max 67-68 celsius while playing and i cant thank you enough for this video, its super easy to follow along and you explain everything nicely! Definitely earned a sub.
I've already heard about undervolting since a pretty long time but never really messed with it this video made it look really easy so I tried it gotta thank you for it bro it made my gpu run as smooth as before with -10 degrees temps.
@@rainsthetic 1 lol. It's extremely easy and made my gpu run from 70 degrees load to 58-60 degrees(70% fan speed) or 55-56 degrees (100% fan speed) which is insane.
I wish I new about undervolting ages ago! I just did it with my rtx 3070. Temps went from 77 down to 70 and performance actually slightly increased, incredible!
It took me about 5 minutes into this video to figure out where you’re from: I’m guessing, strongly, Sweden. You’ve got an amazing ear for English phonology. Bravo!
He's clear with words but doesn't sound native to me, not one bit. "I’m guessing, strongly, Sweden." Bruh, you can just check about section from his homepage. No need for the guess work XD.
Hi young man, big thanks to you and to the youtube algorithm. I've managed to undervolt my 3060 by following your instructions (and reasoning), now my gpu won't go above 69C° (and I have a shitty case with bad airflow). I undervolt my cpu (while overclocking), the whole thing is smooth.
Thank you man, fantastic guide! I had a problem with my GTX 1070. It was heating up to 93°. So I replaced thermal paste and the pads. After that the temperature was constantly at 83° level at any game. I continued searching for the solution and that's how I found your guide. When I tested my card with Heaven I saw that it was working at 1823 MHz frequency which is much higher than should be for a Founders Edition accordingly to Nvidia. After it reached 83° it was thermal caping down to 1503 MHz and 0.8 mv. So I set the frequency at 1600 MHz with 0.8 MV. I also made a custom fan curve. As a result now the temperature never goes higher than 60°. I was really amazed by the result since My computer is small and doesn't have a good cooling system. Maybe I'll even consider to increase the frequency but I'm just enjoying the temperatures right now. So, thank you so much for your help!
Yeah just followed this guide... totally works. Rtx 2700super. Was 1830mhz at 1030mv at 80°c Now 1860mhz at 925mv at 71°c Also getting higher fps slightly and less stutter. Many thanks
Awesome video once again! Could you make this guide for Linux (Ubuntu for example)? Since most deep learning environments are not designed for windows.
You're a life saver men !!! i just bought rtx 3070 msi ventus 2x oc and my first game was shadow of tomb raider ,and im so suprised with max setting (exc RT) and res almost 4k i got 79c temperatures !!! after using ur guide now max temps reduce to 67,thats crazy !!! hahaha.not cool enough maybe but im satisfied.i use 900 mv maybe i try 875 and 850 mv. and the important thing im not find any performance decrease , since my refresh monitor only 60hz anyway hahaha.but the fps stable at 60 so im good. thx again bro !!!
Lacking basic knowledge is a problem when it is propagated. For those who knows a tiny bit of SI units, look up kilo and Kelvin, and why we should use kB for kilobytes and not KB :). I had to laugh when my ISP used KB for kilobits.... Because its two errors in just two letters.
Ok my gpu was usually running at 68 or 69 celcius when gaming. Temps were just fine, but was looking up a safe range for the average gpu and cem across this video. Undervolted my gpu and now it's running at 63-65 degrees and much quieter, even with my custom fan curve. Heaven benchmark score even went up by 90 points and performance didn't even suffer. Great video, great results.
Thanks for the guide it helped out also i put my 3060 Ti at 1790MHz instead and my Mv at 900 cause i wanted to keep it at a stable level and now when i play my games the max temps i end up getting is 56c (before i was getting 68c) which i am glad because now the system is more quiet than it was before because the only noise i would get in my whole system is the GPU fans.
Can't believe I just learned about this today. Took around 10 degrees off my 3060 Ti FE under load while the auto fan curve is even spinning around 10% slower so it's much quieter as well. My core clock is rock solid at 1950 MHz, I could probably push it higher but I'm more than happy with this result.
This helped me a lot! Built my first PC yesterday and got my RTX 3080 Ti undervolted. Stabilises at 1900MHz / 825mV with temps hovering between 65-66 degree celcius (from the usual 75 at stock settings). Definitely decreases some fan noises. Thanks for the video!
Tried undervolting on my ZOTAC GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Trinity OC using this guide, I didnt loose any performance to my surprise i gained performance. At least when I was using Heaven Benchmark, the score got higher on 900 mV then not chaning mV at all. Plus the temperature went from 76c ~ 65c. Later on I tried some games like Baldurs Gate 3 and Final Fantasy 14. On these games it got to 80c ~ 84c sometimes, now max is about 65 ~ 67c when it's on high load. It makes the graphic card so quiet. Super nice of you to show this thank you so much! You got my like!!
One little extra tip. You can safely increase the memory speed by 400 or 500 mz and test it again. It should raise performance so you gonna have the same or more performance even while underclocking
My temps were pretty low since I'm using a GTX 1070 Seahawk X, but this allowed me to lower them by 3 degrees and keep similar performance after combining it with an OC. Thank you!
you are a life saver dude. Was getting 81c on Witcher 3 ULTRA graphics on my 3070. After doing the undervolt, I got 68-70c while the performance remains the same.
I'd say that overall this was fairly informative, however most of the time that "thermal throttling" was happening was actually "boost binning", where the card is still boosting over stock settings, but just reducing the boost frequency to control temps. Proper thermal throttling is when the frequencies reduce below stock base settings!
yeah but when my card goes from 1800 to 1650 really fast,i can notice how the frametime jumps a bit so undervolting is really useful when it comes to making your framerate more "smooth"
“Proper thermal throttling”, wow, you just invented your very own piece of bullshit computer terminology. What the hell are you meaning when you call it “proper”? Like there’s some thermal throttling which is actually improper? Are you actually stupid or just insane? For your information, thermal throttling has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with any particular clock speeds, whether above or below stock. Exactly where, in the two words in the phrase do you hear or find ANYTHING referring to the fact that if the clocks aren’t at YOUR arbitrarily chosen speed then the throttling which is occurring, specifically because the core is getting TOO HOT is not actually thermal throttling at all? Do you now understand why I asked if you’re just stupid or actually insane? Thermal throttling is ANY throttling which occurs at ANY clock speed, because the algorithm in control has simply gotten to one of its predetermined check points. And there are check points in effect for literally EVERY single MHz of core speed of which the card is capable! If at ANY speed, the temps are approaching and/or exceeding nVidia’s predetermined safety limits, PROPER thermal throttling does indeed occur, and whether the clocks are far above or far below stock makes no difference in any way, shape or form. Honestly, I don’t know if you just make this stuff up or it was told to you and you naively and illogically believed it, regardless of the fact that it makes no sense and has no actual reason to occur. Can you please explain, why, exactly, is thermal throttling ONLY proper if it occurs at or below stock speeds? And when does this convert to improper throttling? Who decided that the demarcation was to be wherever stock speeds are? Was this in some kind of Tron or other sci-fi movie you saw and didn’t quite understand? Coz it has just as much to do with actual reality as sci-fi films do. Next time try tell someone they’re wrong when they actually are, not when you’ve just invented your own, custom, non-sensical bit of terminology that there was never any need for in the first place.
finally. a clear and logical explanation of how and why you would undervolt. Can't tell you how many videos I watched before this one, which were neither. Thanks dude.
Thank you for the video I followed your method on my 3090, it idles around 34 degrees and so far highest temp is about 65 when playing control with DLSS and 2K res.
i've had oc gear for 10 years on 3 machines and barely ever touched it, but this guy's confidence is reassuring...i just increased a miner's eff by 15 percent no sweat, thanks bruv. The setting the voltage curve action is this vid is money.
I basically combined this with overclocking on my GTX 1060 6GB, because I was not happy with the temperature after overclocking. Here are the results: Stock: Core 1822 MHz, Memory 4006 MHz, 70°C, Score: 2100 Overclocked: Core 2021 MHz (@1043 mv), Memory 4551 MHz, 77°C, Score: 2363 Undervolt: Core 2021 MHz (@950 mv), Memory 4551 MHz, 67°C, Score: 2314 Completely stable so far and I've gained 10% performance while reducing temperature by 3°C compared to the stock values. Incredible.
@@martinsch thanks a lot Just one more question, can I under volt Just to get better temps and still have stock performance with out the need of overclocking the card?
Sure, that's possible. You will get a LOT better temps with most cards if you undervolt with stock clock as a target. The procedure is essentially the same.
Thanks so much dude, from 83°c to 69°c max in most demanding games! Its insane!! If anyone wants to know, 900 mV and 1850 mhz core clock on a RTX 3060, Cyberpunk 2077 from 64 FPS to 61 FPS, RT all on, DLSS performance.
Thank you very much Bro! i just undervolted my RTX 3060 ti EVGA with 2 Fans, in Stock the Temp was 65-70°C while playing Warzone, and now it is 55-60°C with same FPS and even some times little better FPS!! Undervolting: 850 mV by 1850 MHz Clock.
Thanks for the video! It made a great difference for my inno3D 1070. I used superposition benchmark for testing. My results: Stock Config Clock: ~1860mhz Max Temp: 74c Score: 3340 After Undervolting Clock: 1850mhz @ 850mV Max Temp: 66c Score: 3338 I play Forza 5. Before I used to get 71c in game but now it doesn't exceed 62c. Thanks again.
Great video! With this simple guide I managed to undervolt my GPU which saved me easily 10°C and about 15% to 20% less fan speed (from ~80% before undervolting to ~60% after)
Great video man . Honestly bro this helped so much went from 70c to about 53c under full load on a 1080ti FE witch is hard enough to cool as it only has 1 fan but this was such a descriptive video and easy to follow along . Such a life saver
Thanks mate i've watched a few videos on undervolting this is by far the best explanation. I went from 82°c to 62°c playing Warzone on my RTX 3070Ti FE. If anyone is curious I set my core clock to -200 and raised 925mV to 1900. I also set a fan curve to help with my temps and they don't go above 60%.
This was amazing, undervolting my TUF 3080 actually gave me better results in Heaven after about an hour of tweaking with the settings. I would guess it's because the MHz got more stable. but my current results ended up being: standard settings results: Temp: 67 fps:247,2 Score:6228 min fps: 56,3 max fps: 505,6 Fan speed: 87% Undervolted settings results: mV: 825 clock: 1940 Temp: 62 fps:253,3 Score:6382 min fps:48,5 max fps: 509,5 Max fan speed 79% Thanks for a great guide!
Did this with my 3060 and I went from temps up to 82c down to around 62-64c. This is when playing max settings on Fortnite at 1440p minus raytracing . Thank you soooo much for the video!!
Thank you for the video it help me so much. I have a 2060rtx and I was getting 81c on warzone and after doing this, the highest the temp is 74c and it and low as 69c at 1950. Everything is on normal and low settings at 1080, and only lost 2-3 fps. Thanks once again
I have a RTX 2060 super aorus, I used thermal grizzly kryonout and change their thermal pads, I barely hitt 60° even on games that surpass 100 power usage, like grid 2020, I think you just need to replace the thermal paste and you're good, my clock speed is 2010 / 1995.
THANK YOU!!!! undervolted my inno3d 3060ti as it was hitting 86c (apparently normal but not for me) now playing games like warzone gta v witcher I get around 60c
Yo bro, yes I have the same gpu brand (non-ti) as you but those games wouldn not crash ur game yet but please feel free to test some demanding games like tomb raider, metro exodus to see what's the ultimate undervolt performance u gonna get.. I get good temps on those games u mentioned but when I try out demanding games it instantly crash...my first setting was around 900v/1850hz....no problem running gtav etc.. Switch it to tomb raider, crashed within 5 mins.. Finally settled down to 950v/1850hz.. Still decent temp with 2-3C increase.. Also., inno cards are HOTT AFFFF (TEMPERATURE)
Great guide. This works wonders on the 4090 power draw. I now max out at 330W at 950mv and 2130Mhz core temp of 55c. I have a 3% performance loss, but it is well worth it IMO.
Hey man, thanks a lot for this video. I've been avoiding undervolting my gpu for years now on my previous and current laptop because of this graph (I know, ahah), and you are the only one who made it simple and clear. Long story short for my gtx 1650 : From -925mv : score 3125 // min fps 30 // max 127 // temp 62°c To -775mv : score 3276 // min fps 31.2 // max 120.4 // temp ~55°c lost some fps, but gotta cool down in the summer, even more on a laptop right ? Plus I'll be really honest, I didn't see any difference. Anyway, thanks a lot ! Edit : Put it "back up" to 800mv for more stability, after 3.5hours of rdr2 my temp was at 54°c. Crazy. thank you !
So guys here’s more insight of what it can offer u: Normal run (stock) Highest temperature: 83 Clock speed: 1800 Score 3454 Undervolt at 825mV on 2060super : 3466 Highest temperature: 67 degrees used to get 83 degrees in warzone now it’s sitting at 60-64 comfortable. Have fun undervolting and know it’ll probably be worth ur time
Well this was impressive my Geforce GTX 1660 hit 78 degrees during the benchmark and although that is quite fine for temperature I wanted to reduce it more. So after following this guide I ended up with 875 voltage at 2000 clock speed and it never reached higher than 65 and even then it stayed at 65 for a few microsecond before dropping to 64 degrees. Very nicely done, I tried dropping the voltage to 850 but soon as the unigen started (not even started the benchmark) the computer instantly crashed lol. So 875 it is.
I don't understand why you downclocked by 250, I do undervolting but I completely skip the -250 undervolt part. I actually overclock by 100 mv and cap it to whichever voltage I feel comfortable. (725mV at 1500 mhz for older games, and 850mV at 1750 Mhz for modern ones)
Awesome video. I was really surprised with the results I was able to get on my 3060 XC Gaming. Going to 900mV, I was able to run at a constant 1935MHz while dropping from 76 deg to around 67 deg with the same low rpm fan curve. There could even be more headroom because I didn't test past 900mV as I was happy with the temps. I might try putting a slight overclock on the memory next and see if it affects performance at all.
Another great video Aladdin! 👍 From 5:28 onwards it should be millivolt. There is one more problem: In order to undervolt I need a GPU! Amazon cancelled my order - I wonder if any RTX 3060ti or 3070 will be sold in 2021 for close to RSP! 😓
My bad! I feel you, it's really tough. Since mining is so profitable right now it's pretty much impossible to get a hold of a GPU which sucks for us into machine learning & gamers
this is the best video on UA-cam yet. Was sweating because my 3060ti was rocking 82c in benchmark at 4167 score, after a little tinkering its down to 67c 4005 score
Thanks to your step-by-step guide, I finally dared to try to undervolt my RTX 3070 EVGA XC3 (black lips), currently at 800 mV at 1860 Mhz boost speed, 9-10 degrees cooler, so, most importantly, much less louder even without using a quiet fan profile !!! Thank you again. Btw. should I try going lower or just be happy with where I got?
EvGa RTX 2080 XC owner here:( mind you this card default 1800mhz, but always run at least 1900 when benchmarking or gaming so i keep the value just like the video advice) 1915mhz, undervolt .875 Crash at 850. Temperature while benchmark is 76 before and 64 after. Temperature while playing overwatch is 78 before and 63 after. Temperature when testing crysis all max setting is 83 before and 66 after. Fan curve matching number +5 skip one for example :50rpm-50c, 65 rpm -60c, 75rpm-70c, 90rpm - 80c Fan noise and room heat was reduce significantly. Didn’t sweat anymore after gaming session and didnt feel hot air from the exhault at all. Hope its help. In conclusion dropped around 12-15 degree. Best decision ever for my gaming rig. Didn’t experience stutter and lag anymore due to heat after long play neither. Rgb light (base on temperature) have not switched to red color (hot) since undervolting. Remained calm blue.
Returning here 2 years after I first saw the video, I realised just now how much I have learnt. I am so grateful for your channel, everytNice tutorialng
Thank you for this clear and easy to understand explanation video, I watched a specific video on a "simple trick" to get better performance out of my exact card and I had absolutely no idea WHY I was undervolting, just that it would bring my GPU temps down and hence reduce the horrendous aggressive fan noise, after watching your video I feel like I've gained so much more information, brilliant exactly what I was looking for, thank you
@@smb2267 in my country malaysia the ambient temp is already 30c easily, i had to downclock my gtx 1070 rog scar to 700-800mv voltage @1450MHZ core speed, just to maintain slightly below 90c, the temp is very bad even at 1400MHZ range i get high 80c in AAA games, while american youtubers can use the GTX 1070 turbo boost clock of 1600MHZ and still hit below 80c
My rtx 2060 was running about 80 degrees, which is normal, but the fans sounded like a jet engine. This has brought the temp down to the mid 70s so it is much quieter! Thanks!!
I'd like to take a brief moment to explain what is actually happening physically when you perform this activity. Thermal energy emitted in an electric circuit, measured in watts, is produced by voltage multiplied by current. P = I*V (Watt's Law, where P is Power, I is current in amps, and V is voltage in Volts. Remember, Power is HEAT here. So Watts are HEAT. Temperature is thus how much HEAT is stuck on your card overall.) In the process of a transistor (electronic switch) flipping from an off to an on state, or vice-versa, you have three states. High-current, no-voltage at the switch; high-voltage, no-current at the switch; and medium-voltage, medium-current at the switch. Suffice to say when the switch is in either of the end states, high current or high voltage, the opposing value is zero, so the total of the equation is zero. That is to say, using simplified numbers, high voltage times no current is no watts. 10 * 0 = 0 No voltage times high current is also no watts. 0 * 10 = 0 However, as the switch 'switches', as they do every single clock cycle, current and voltage must cross over, twice. In this middle state, you could say that you have half-voltage, and half-current. At which point, actual values matter. In this case, 5 * 5 = 25 watts. With this happening twice a clock cycle, you get 50 watts of power, or heat, dumped into the hardware of the switch. If you're beginning to see how this pertains to voltage and frequency, you're instincts serve you well. The faster your clock speed (frequency), the more times the switch crosses that middle state for a given amount of time (usually seconds). Which means more heat per given amount of time. Likewise, the more your driving voltage is, the more the value of that middle state jumps up as you multiply values together. Heat will rise in a linear fashion with the clock cycles, but exponentially with voltage since voltage ALSO drives current (Ohm's Law, or I = V/r). At the end of putting this together, the overall calculation of your heat looks something like this: '2X(V*I) = P ' OR Voltage times current, times Clock Cycles (X in this example) times two. What undervolting is doing to achieve your thermal reduction, is slowly dropping the voltage as far down as you can, while still being able to fire off the transistors inside the processor. Or rather, trying to find the 'knee voltage' that turns the switches ON. Depending on what the transistors are made of, that can be a value like 0.7 volts... Ideally. But the caveats that make this a bit of a guess-and-check process is that no transistor is perfect, and you have LOTS of them packed into your GPU. Thus, you're trying to find the point where you're feeding enough voltage so that the average '100 percent this transistor will operate correctly all the time' across ALL the transistors is firmly above minimum, while cutting out the excess voltage and thus, current, and ultimately, heat generated. In short, you're tuning your GPU to be as efficient as possible. Undervolting the GPU will not harm it. Damage is caused by heat. Heat burns conductor channels and breaks down their conductivity. Undervolting causes GPU crashes because transistors refuse to 'turn on' if you're voltage is too low, and thus the processor cannot operate. All it takes is one transistor somewhere in the thousands (yes, I said thousands, if not millions depending on the generation of processor) to not fire for the whole processor to malfunction and fail. If you kept up with this explanation, now you know why microprocessors produce huge amounts of heat at 5 GHz.
This is specially recommended for laptops, because they run very hot. Try undervolting both, cpu and gpu, generally the cpu is the one running hotter(specially intel ones) since it clocks up to 5Ghz compared to 2Ghz for gpus, thst creates much more heat and since both are very close one another on a laptop, undervolting both will bring temperatures from both down not just because of undervolting, but because they will send each other less heat, specially if they share heat pipes.
Somehow it worked while I was testing my game on windowed mode and as i dropped the volts temps dropped. But whenever I put the game on fullscreen temps seem to rise back up again? To 86 C
Late reply here. But when you go full screen the GPU has to render pixels for the entire monitor area now. Hence it takes up quite a load compared to when you use windowed mode wherein just the windowed area has to be rendered depending on what game or software you are using.
*UPDATE 2021-03-24:*
MSI Afterburner just updated how their GUI looks like but it's the exact same process just the buttons looks different and might be located slightly differently. You can still follow it without any issues (the important things in the video remain the same) but to make it easier you can go to Settings -> User Interface -> Look for skin and choose MSI Cyborg Afterburner Skin White by Drerex Design. Then it should be exactly as you see in the video.
One detail I forgot to mention that is super useful is when you open MSI Afterburner around the top right region there's a windows button and you should press this button to apply your undervolt profile at boot (press this after you've tested it like I showed in the video). Also on the right side of MSI Afterburner there is 5 different "Profile" where you can also save different presets that you've found to work well for your GPU.
*CORRECTIONS*
- I said microvolts but it's millivolts, my bad!
Is it just to MSI cards?
@@DiogoSanti No it'll work on any NVIDIA card
@@AladdinPersson Thanks for the answer!
My degrees wont go lower. Can you please help me on discord, I still got overheating issues.
Hello! Thank you for the very nice tutorial. +1 subscriber, you earned it! One question please. Why do we choose the -250 value? Could it be something lower like -350? Whats the explanation behind that value?
Absolutely the best step by step video I've seen regarding getting better temp's on the 3080 TI was constantly 80c now 65 -70, 850mw 1850 core clock , I appreciate it very much
I’m thinking about doing the same to my 3080ti which model do you have?
bro you still undervolting?
i would be interested in what you achieved so far over two weeks
I did 850mw &1850 Mhz on 2060 and it does make a lot of difference in terms of temp
@@sagarmgandhi have you tried playing ff7? we have the same card i haven't tried this one but mine is running 73-77c with 1080p max settings.
@@jenniferlyannerodriguez Sorry i dont have that game. I tested changes against Warzone
I know this video is already 9 months old, but I just wanted to give my thanks to you for this step by step guide. It really helped me bring my laptop's temperature down from mid 80's - low 90s to 64-70 at it's highest. I'm using a MSI GE76 RAIDER with a Nvidia 3060 and I was worried I would have to deal with the high temperatures forever. You just gave a lot more time to this machine's life expectancy lmao. Thank you so much for the guide.
@Kane Apologies, I seem to have gotten the notification today. I had a 2% decrease in performance when comparing my benchmarks. However, I have not noticed this performance drop during my gaming sessions. Everything seems to be running just fine for now while keeping a steady 64°C while gaming.
@@PatamonofHope can you tell your settings for the undervolt
Like how much core clock at which volt
Because i have the same rtx 3060
@@yuvrajsinghpalh3424 sure.
I set the speed at 1782 with a voltage of 825.
This gave me about 98% performance for much lower temperatures. And in all cases I don't see that 2% difference so far.
Hope that helped.
@@PatamonofHope hey, really need your help. Does your laptop still runnning smooth ?. Idk why in just 5 mins my temp reach 100°c . And i still havent try this undervolt. My gpu are same like you rtx 3060 laptop gpu. All my game were stuttering and dropping fps from 60 fps to 30 fps. Even at low setting. Could you please help me since you and i have a same gpu
@@rafitohornero3850 Yes. My PC is still running smoothly. I have seen it fluctuate the Temps depending on the games. Low demanding games usually go to the 50s to mid 60 degrees. While the most demanding ones can get a steady 71 and in some cases go 80 degrees. Though that last temp is usually with Elden Ring on High Settings. Barely any stutters outside of the first minute of Elden Ring due to the map loading.
Other games don't stutter at all for now.
I can’t thank you enough. I’m new to pc gaming and was struggling with my gpu temps. This video gave me the courage to try undervolting. A+
Try increasing fan speed first, then maybe under volting, it's what I'd honestly recommend
@@XeonPrototype I did. Made my fan curve pretty aggressive and didn’t help. I think the card is just poorly designed because it only has one fan.
@@lukaszdm3367 may I ask which card it is? And if it's an OEM, cause if so you could get a custom cooler, having bad temps is really risky and will destroy it slowly, chiping away it's life
Honestly bro i got a 3 speed desk fan that has legs more or less hooked on the back of my pc blastin air and it legit made my 1080 go from 70c to 54c. You can use a lot of external sources before you go under the hood. Especially if the inside of a pc intimidates you its nice to know you can get a 2tb external ssd that writes as fast as an internal one. Box fans work great too if you got it on the floor.
if its a new GPU & you are new to PC gaming, undervolting isnt something you should automatically jump to. Airflow inside your PC case & a custom fan curve should be all you need to fix, for normal temps.
My GPU was pulling 1037mV. Fans just going crazy over hight temps. I have got it down to 900mV VERY stable and my temps have dropped 15c in some cases and 10c in most. Fans are quiet and even my CPU has dropped a few C from the cooler temps. Thank you for this guide. It was great! I had the same result about a 1% drop in performance but it is well worth the temps and quiet fans.
@@klipone1354 🤡
@Klip One 1%
Amazing guide. The numbered steps made it much easier to follow than other videos who just did things. Results below:
Minimum 40% less power consumption. Temperature down 18 degrees Celsius. And obviously much less loud since the fans don't have to work as hard to cool the GPU anymore. All this for 6% less performance. The GPU I was working with was a factory overclocked Zotac 2X sized 2060.
Thank you so much for the video!! You've made my life a little bit better and a lot less noisy :)
Edit: Turns out stability in unigen heaven doesnt exactly translate to other games haha. Had to adjust a bit after games started to crash. New numbers:
30% less power consumption, 15 degrees celcius less and obviously less noise than stock. 5-7% less performance
Update?
@@henriquecesar482 Hmm, haven't really changed anything since the last update. If anything, I'm _still_ grateful from time to time for the fact that there's so much less noise, even on longer gaming sessions. Just goes to show how much the noise was affecting me even if I didn't think so at the time. Definitely going to be undervolting every card I get from this point on
Try furmark
@@adamm1117 any update?
Went from 95°C to 80°C max in games on my MSI Laptop with 1050 Ti Max-Q, thanks. Though I did it a bit differently: first, shift + drag the node above the desired voltage up to the best frequency (just as he explained, this is the frequency before throttle), second, flatten the rest post that voltage. I stopped at 900mV @ 1670 MHz, probably could have gone further but decided not to, good enough for me
I was having temp issues with temps pushing 80-82. I replaced the thermal paste on the GPU and temps are now always below 70 at max voltage. Just another option that’s out there. I like your video- never thought about undervolting but it makes sense.
Replacing the thermal paste is oftentimes effective but requires a bit of work. If undervolting doesn't help to a sufficient degree I think the second option would be to replace thermal paste
How old was your GPU when you changed the thermal paste?
@@bersK00 idk, probably around a year.
@@sabretoothx3949 Nowp... You're wrong... Undervolting is safe and maintain your card under warranty. On the other side, replacing your thermal paste is a physical modification of the product so it will break your warranty.
Undervolting is clearly a better solution to improve your graphic card temps and on the same time keep your warranty OK.
@@EmmanuelSEMIAO Depends on where you live. Here you don't void the warranty by replacing thermal paste.
Thank you very much sir! I was so frustrated with my pc build. My 2080 was always running hot and fans were super loud. I tried changing the fans, opening the case, controlling the fan speed... nothing.
Undervolting was the solution for me. Even playing apex legends with 144fps the gpu never goes higher than 75° and the fans are super quiet. It’s like a whole new pc build.
This is amazing! Thank you again!
change the thermal paste on your GPU!
@@h3nry_t122 im glad to hear that😄👍
bro i play apex on an mx250 laptop
recently my game started dropping frames after 10 mins of playing
do u think undervolting the gpu will help solve that?
@@GarBageGhosteeE kinda. The actual issue there is that your gpu is overheating, and it only started recently, I'm fairly certain it's due to dust build up. What you should actually do first is open up your laptop and clean the insides, that should give waaaaay better temps, and therefore reduce throttling. If that doesn't work then you can try undervolting.
@@sewergweller ty so much broo
i will definitely try
never left a comment on a video before watching this one. my 1660ti was hitting 83 degrees on warzone and now its at 73. thank you so much for the easy to follow video!
This is a year old, and the UI has changed, but this totally worked for me. I balanced it out from hitting 84-85 degrees down to under 70 for an EVGA FTW3 3090 Ultra.
I’ve seen a lot of undervolt guides and this one is one of the best guides online. Thanks for your help
thank you for posting this. you got got my 3080 ti down from 78-70 @ ultra high settings down to 73-74. great video and appreciate that you did not rush through the tutorial and took your time.
Literally the best video about undervolting! Great job!
Thank you so much, my GPU temps dropped from 80ºC to under 70ºC.
super useful, thank you! I built my first PC with a 3070ti and followed your guide and noticed a reduction in temperature on the Heaven benchmark while maintaining performance. On gaming, the GPU runs now much cooler!
This is by far the best explanation yet. Great job. 👍
Yeah
its the wrong way
I bought a renewed EVGA 2070 super XC and it kept crashing while gaming randomly. As soon as I lowered the memory clock a tiny bit and core clock it works perfect!!! Thank you!!
Thank you so much for making this! I've been insanely paranoid about my gpu temps for months and custom fan curves weren't doing anything but my temps are now down a significant amount
I honestly cant thank you enough, I got red dead 2 for my newly built pc with a 3080 and when i got into the game i noticed my temps were going as high as 76-80 celsius, and being a 3080 i was a bit nervous and didnt want it going that high for lets say 2-3hours at a time, so I decided to look into this undervolting thing and its saved me my sanity! My gpu now is at max 67-68 celsius while playing and i cant thank you enough for this video, its super easy to follow along and you explain everything nicely! Definitely earned a sub.
I've already heard about undervolting since a pretty long time but never really messed with it this video made it look really easy so I tried it gotta thank you for it bro it made my gpu run as smooth as before with -10 degrees temps.
In a scale 1-10 how hard is it?
@@rainsthetic 1 lol. It's extremely easy and made my gpu run from 70 degrees load to 58-60 degrees(70% fan speed) or 55-56 degrees (100% fan speed) which is insane.
I wish I new about undervolting ages ago! I just did it with my rtx 3070. Temps went from 77 down to 70 and performance actually slightly increased, incredible!
probably the best explanation on how to undervolt a gpu, by far the best video, seriously
It works. This helps more with the smaller single fan cards for the average gamer imo.
It took me about 5 minutes into this video to figure out where you’re from: I’m guessing, strongly, Sweden. You’ve got an amazing ear for English phonology. Bravo!
He's clear with words but doesn't sound native to me, not one bit.
"I’m guessing, strongly, Sweden."
Bruh, you can just check about section from his homepage. No need for the guess work XD.
A really great tutorial, you laid it out very simply and was able to reduce the heat from my 3080 ti to something more reasonable.
Hi young man, big thanks to you and to the youtube algorithm. I've managed to undervolt my 3060 by following your instructions (and reasoning), now my gpu won't go above 69C° (and I have a shitty case with bad airflow). I undervolt my cpu (while overclocking), the whole thing is smooth.
69c *n i c e*
@@KINGOFFILMSDUDE gg lmao
I'm trying to undervolt my 3060 too. How far down did you manage to push your freq/voltage?
@@mushi_k silicon lottery and your cooler will make for different results sadly.
So whatever villa gets you may not get yourself
@@KINGOFFILMSDUDE yeah true, but would make a useful point of reference to see how far i can push it
Thank you man, fantastic guide! I had a problem with my GTX 1070. It was heating up to 93°. So I replaced thermal paste and the pads. After that the temperature was constantly at 83° level at any game. I continued searching for the solution and that's how I found your guide.
When I tested my card with Heaven I saw that it was working at 1823 MHz frequency which is much higher than should be for a Founders Edition accordingly to Nvidia. After it reached 83° it was thermal caping down to 1503 MHz and 0.8 mv. So I set the frequency at 1600 MHz with 0.8 MV. I also made a custom fan curve.
As a result now the temperature never goes higher than 60°. I was really amazed by the result since My computer is small and doesn't have a good cooling system. Maybe I'll even consider to increase the frequency but I'm just enjoying the temperatures right now.
So, thank you so much for your help!
Can you please help in the process
Yeah just followed this guide... totally works.
Rtx 2700super.
Was 1830mhz at 1030mv at 80°c
Now 1860mhz at 925mv at 71°c
Also getting higher fps slightly and less stutter.
Many thanks
Look into undervolt it some more. You want to stay under a certain temp while gameing to never getting throttling in mhz.
Awesome video once again! Could you make this guide for Linux (Ubuntu for example)? Since most deep learning environments are not designed for windows.
Yes please!
You're a life saver men !!! i just bought rtx 3070 msi ventus 2x oc and my first game was shadow of tomb raider ,and im so suprised with max setting (exc RT) and res almost 4k i got 79c temperatures !!! after using ur guide now max temps reduce to 67,thats crazy !!! hahaha.not cool enough maybe but im satisfied.i use 900 mv maybe i try 875 and 850 mv.
and the important thing im not find any performance decrease , since my refresh monitor only 60hz anyway hahaha.but the fps stable at 60 so im good.
thx again bro !!!
Theres a huge difference between micro and milli
Lacking basic knowledge is a problem when it is propagated. For those who knows a tiny bit of SI units, look up kilo and Kelvin, and why we should use kB for kilobytes and not KB :). I had to laugh when my ISP used KB for kilobits.... Because its two errors in just two letters.
Ok my gpu was usually running at 68 or 69 celcius when gaming. Temps were just fine, but was looking up a safe range for the average gpu and cem across this video. Undervolted my gpu and now it's running at 63-65 degrees and much quieter, even with my custom fan curve. Heaven benchmark score even went up by 90 points and performance didn't even suffer. Great video, great results.
Thanks for the guide it helped out also i put my 3060 Ti at 1790MHz instead and my Mv at 900 cause i wanted to keep it at a stable level and now when i play my games the max temps i end up getting is 56c (before i was getting 68c) which i am glad because now the system is more quiet than it was before because the only noise i would get in my whole system is the GPU fans.
Can't believe I just learned about this today.
Took around 10 degrees off my 3060 Ti FE under load while the auto fan curve is even spinning around 10% slower so it's much quieter as well. My core clock is rock solid at 1950 MHz, I could probably push it higher but I'm more than happy with this result.
This helped me a lot! Built my first PC yesterday and got my RTX 3080 Ti undervolted. Stabilises at 1900MHz / 825mV with temps hovering between 65-66 degree celcius (from the usual 75 at stock settings). Definitely decreases some fan noises. Thanks for the video!
Is it the OC version?
@@rahul-qm9fiYes
Tried undervolting on my ZOTAC GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Trinity OC using this guide, I didnt loose any performance to my surprise i gained performance.
At least when I was using Heaven Benchmark, the score got higher on 900 mV then not chaning mV at all.
Plus the temperature went from 76c ~ 65c.
Later on I tried some games like Baldurs Gate 3 and Final Fantasy 14.
On these games it got to 80c ~ 84c sometimes, now max is about 65 ~ 67c when it's on high load.
It makes the graphic card so quiet.
Super nice of you to show this thank you so much! You got my like!!
One little extra tip. You can safely increase the memory speed by 400 or 500 mz and test it again. It should raise performance so you gonna have the same or more performance even while underclocking
It's also gonna raise a temp, tho
@@ml_serenity when you not raise your voltage again it shouldn't
@@ml_serenity negative.
@@alainarevalo724 no, raising frequency will result in higher power consumption and therefor higher temps.
used this video more than a year ago to undervolt my 1080, finally upgraded to a used 3080 and im back again for round 2 lol, thanks again.
My temps were pretty low since I'm using a GTX 1070 Seahawk X, but this allowed me to lower them by 3 degrees and keep similar performance after combining it with an OC. Thank you!
Undervolt and OC is not a good combo. Voltage is there to stabilize your OC.
I've watched many undervolt videos and have no idea what they do. But I understand all things you explain. Good jobs.
perfect guide, I´m already on 800mv with my 1070, no crashes, further tests are coming :)
@dexter its not getting enough juice
you are a life saver dude. Was getting 81c on Witcher 3 ULTRA graphics on my 3070. After doing the undervolt, I got 68-70c while the performance remains the same.
Did you ever try to cap your framerate at 60? That should solve your overheating problems with the same performance.
@@jiunc.1604 I wanted to push my framerate because my screen is 165 hz
I'd say that overall this was fairly informative, however most of the time that "thermal throttling" was happening was actually "boost binning", where the card is still boosting over stock settings, but just reducing the boost frequency to control temps. Proper thermal throttling is when the frequencies reduce below stock base settings!
yeah that makes sense. People throw the tern 'thermal throttling' very easily
yeah but when my card goes from 1800 to 1650 really fast,i can notice how the frametime jumps a bit so undervolting is really useful when it comes to making your framerate more "smooth"
“Proper thermal throttling”, wow, you just invented your very own piece of bullshit computer terminology. What the hell are you meaning when you call it “proper”? Like there’s some thermal throttling which is actually improper? Are you actually stupid or just insane? For your information, thermal throttling has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with any particular clock speeds, whether above or below stock. Exactly where, in the two words in the phrase do you hear or find ANYTHING referring to the fact that if the clocks aren’t at YOUR arbitrarily chosen speed then the throttling which is occurring, specifically because the core is getting TOO HOT is not actually thermal throttling at all? Do you now understand why I asked if you’re just stupid or actually insane?
Thermal throttling is ANY throttling which occurs at ANY clock speed, because the algorithm in control has simply gotten to one of its predetermined check points. And there are check points in effect for literally EVERY single MHz of core speed of which the card is capable! If at ANY speed, the temps are approaching and/or exceeding nVidia’s predetermined safety limits, PROPER thermal throttling does indeed occur, and whether the clocks are far above or far below stock makes no difference in any way, shape or form.
Honestly, I don’t know if you just make this stuff up or it was told to you and you naively and illogically believed it, regardless of the fact that it makes no sense and has no actual reason to occur. Can you please explain, why, exactly, is thermal throttling ONLY proper if it occurs at or below stock speeds? And when does this convert to improper throttling? Who decided that the demarcation was to be wherever stock speeds are? Was this in some kind of Tron or other sci-fi movie you saw and didn’t quite understand? Coz it has just as much to do with actual reality as sci-fi films do.
Next time try tell someone they’re wrong when they actually are, not when you’ve just invented your own, custom, non-sensical bit of terminology that there was never any need for in the first place.
finally. a clear and logical explanation of how and why you would undervolt. Can't tell you how many videos I watched before this one, which were neither. Thanks dude.
Thank you for the video I followed your method on my 3090, it idles around 34 degrees and so far highest temp is about 65 when playing control with DLSS and 2K res.
mine hits 57 degrees on apex thats nit bad i guess im new at this stuff
i cant imagine buying a 3090 to use dlss lmaooooooooo
@@aeoteroa818 thats your problem then?
@@aeoteroa818 You can't afford one, so don't worry about it.
i've had oc gear for 10 years on 3 machines and barely ever touched it, but this guy's confidence is reassuring...i just increased a miner's eff by 15 percent no sweat, thanks bruv. The setting the voltage curve action is this vid is money.
I basically combined this with overclocking on my GTX 1060 6GB, because I was not happy with the temperature after overclocking. Here are the results:
Stock: Core 1822 MHz, Memory 4006 MHz, 70°C, Score: 2100
Overclocked: Core 2021 MHz (@1043 mv), Memory 4551 MHz, 77°C, Score: 2363
Undervolt: Core 2021 MHz (@950 mv), Memory 4551 MHz, 67°C, Score: 2314
Completely stable so far and I've gained 10% performance while reducing temperature by 3°C compared to the stock values. Incredible.
where did u get the score from ?
@@llamaloka7043 Good question, it's been a while. I think it was HEAVEN.
@@martinsch thanks a lot Just one more question, can I under volt Just to get better temps and still have stock performance with out the need of overclocking the card?
Sure, that's possible. You will get a LOT better temps with most cards if you undervolt with stock clock as a target. The procedure is essentially the same.
@@martinsch could u send me screenshots of ur afterburner setting cause i have same graphics card
Thanks so much dude, from 83°c to 69°c max in most demanding games! Its insane!! If anyone wants to know, 900 mV and 1850 mhz core clock on a RTX 3060, Cyberpunk 2077 from 64 FPS to 61 FPS, RT all on, DLSS performance.
You have a gift of teaching, i think you'll use it well on this platform.
Stop speaking shit just say you think he taught well, nothing else full of shit
@@Willy_Wanka Yo man, calm your gigantic man-boobies. Stop trying to bait for an argument.
Thank you very much Bro! i just undervolted my RTX 3060 ti EVGA with 2 Fans, in Stock the Temp was 65-70°C while playing Warzone, and now it is 55-60°C with same FPS and even some times little better FPS!!
Undervolting: 850 mV by 1850 MHz Clock.
You're a legend mate, was having trouble with MSI afterburner resetting the voltage based on temperature, the -250 clock trick worked wonders.
It Worked perfectly after trying other methods this one was the best one, Thanks.
Thanks for the video! It made a great difference for my inno3D 1070. I used superposition benchmark for testing. My results:
Stock Config
Clock: ~1860mhz
Max Temp: 74c
Score: 3340
After Undervolting
Clock: 1850mhz @ 850mV
Max Temp: 66c
Score: 3338
I play Forza 5. Before I used to get 71c in game but now it doesn't exceed 62c. Thanks again.
Managed to undervolt my rtx 2060 which has been crashing endlessly. Now its stable thanks to you!
Great video! With this simple guide I managed to undervolt my GPU which saved me easily 10°C and about 15% to 20% less fan speed (from ~80% before undervolting to ~60% after)
Great video man . Honestly bro this helped so much went from 70c to about 53c under full load on a 1080ti FE witch is hard enough to cool as it only has 1 fan but this was such a descriptive video and easy to follow along . Such a life saver
Out of all the videos online yours was the clearest and precise one. Thank You!
1900 MHz @ 875 mV , 71 C.
2080 Super. Benchmark actually went up 10 points. Thanks for the video.
Thanks mate i've watched a few videos on undervolting this is by far the best explanation. I went from 82°c to 62°c playing Warzone on my RTX 3070Ti FE.
If anyone is curious I set my core clock to -200 and raised 925mV to 1900. I also set a fan curve to help with my temps and they don't go above 60%.
this saved me a ton of time. thank you
Best under voltage tutorial I’ve seen ! Easy to follow steps 🐾 I was able to reduce temperature by 12°C, from 74°C -> 62°C !
This was amazing, undervolting my TUF 3080 actually gave me better results in Heaven after about an hour of tweaking with the settings. I would guess it's because the MHz got more stable. but my current results ended up being:
standard settings results:
Temp: 67
fps:247,2
Score:6228
min fps: 56,3
max fps: 505,6
Fan speed: 87%
Undervolted settings results:
mV: 825
clock: 1940
Temp: 62
fps:253,3
Score:6382
min fps:48,5
max fps: 509,5
Max fan speed 79%
Thanks for a great guide!
That's neat, but it wasn't that hot to begin with, and you dropped 8fps on your low side. If leave that stock personally.
Did this with my 3060 and I went from temps up to 82c down to around 62-64c. This is when playing max settings on Fortnite at 1440p minus raytracing . Thank you soooo much for the video!!
I have 3060 and put my undervolt to 875mv, clock at 1905, and it runs well, on my previous 1660s i could only do 925mv
those are not microvolts [µV] (10^-6 Volt), but millivolts [mV] (10^-3 Volt) on the diagram in MSI Afterburner.
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yeah lol
Really appreciated your video mate. I got my GPU from 83c to 70c in summer, and I actually got a better score. Thank you so much.
GPU RTX 3070 vision.
Thank you for the video it help me so much. I have a 2060rtx and I was getting 81c on warzone and after doing this, the highest the temp is 74c and it and low as 69c at 1950. Everything is on normal and low settings at 1080, and only lost 2-3 fps. Thanks once again
I have a RTX 2060 super aorus, I used thermal grizzly kryonout and change their thermal pads, I barely hitt 60° even on games that surpass 100 power usage, like grid 2020, I think you just need to replace the thermal paste and you're good, my clock speed is 2010 / 1995.
THANK YOU!!!! undervolted my inno3d 3060ti as it was hitting 86c (apparently normal but not for me) now playing games like warzone gta v witcher I get around 60c
Yo bro, yes I have the same gpu brand (non-ti) as you but those games wouldn not crash ur game yet but please feel free to test some demanding games like tomb raider, metro exodus to see what's the ultimate undervolt performance u gonna get.. I get good temps on those games u mentioned but when I try out demanding games it instantly crash...my first setting was around 900v/1850hz....no problem running gtav etc.. Switch it to tomb raider, crashed within 5 mins.. Finally settled down to 950v/1850hz.. Still decent temp with 2-3C increase..
Also., inno cards are HOTT AFFFF (TEMPERATURE)
Really thanks man you're a big legend 😄😄
Great guide. This works wonders on the 4090 power draw. I now max out at 330W at 950mv and 2130Mhz core temp of 55c. I have a 3% performance loss, but it is well worth it IMO.
Hey man, thanks a lot for this video. I've been avoiding undervolting my gpu for years now on my previous and current laptop because of this graph (I know, ahah), and you are the only one who made it simple and clear.
Long story short for my gtx 1650 :
From
-925mv : score 3125 // min fps 30 // max 127 // temp 62°c
To
-775mv : score 3276 // min fps 31.2 // max 120.4 // temp ~55°c
lost some fps, but gotta cool down in the summer, even more on a laptop right ? Plus I'll be really honest, I didn't see any difference.
Anyway, thanks a lot !
Edit : Put it "back up" to 800mv for more stability, after 3.5hours of rdr2 my temp was at 54°c. Crazy. thank you !
Bro i have laptop gtx 1650 and get 1326 score in 800mv 1785mhz what is wrong with me?
So guys here’s more insight of what it can offer u:
Normal run (stock)
Highest temperature: 83
Clock speed: 1800
Score 3454
Undervolt at 825mV on 2060super : 3466
Highest temperature: 67 degrees used to get 83 degrees in warzone now it’s sitting at 60-64 comfortable. Have fun undervolting and know it’ll probably be worth ur time
Well this was impressive my Geforce GTX 1660 hit 78 degrees during the benchmark and although that is quite fine for temperature I wanted to reduce it more. So after following this guide I ended up with 875 voltage at 2000 clock speed and it never reached higher than 65 and even then it stayed at 65 for a few microsecond before dropping to 64 degrees. Very nicely done, I tried dropping the voltage to 850 but soon as the unigen started (not even started the benchmark) the computer instantly crashed lol. So 875 it is.
Great video, this dropped my 3070 temp by 15 degrees with no loss in score on heaven benchmark, crazy!
I don't understand why you downclocked by 250, I do undervolting but I completely skip the -250 undervolt part. I actually overclock by 100 mv and cap it to whichever voltage I feel comfortable. (725mV at 1500 mhz for older games, and 850mV at 1750 Mhz for modern ones)
yeah , what was the reason of the downclocking ? can you explain , im trying to understand this undervolting process
I love you mate. My GPU Fans are not screaming for air anymore because of the low temperature I have now thanks to your undervolting guide.
Awesome video. I was really surprised with the results I was able to get on my 3060 XC Gaming. Going to 900mV, I was able to run at a constant 1935MHz while dropping from 76 deg to around 67 deg with the same low rpm fan curve. There could even be more headroom because I didn't test past 900mV as I was happy with the temps. I might try putting a slight overclock on the memory next and see if it affects performance at all.
hey, how is it doing so far
If you kept it going till now you have all the respect that I can give
Another great video Aladdin! 👍 From 5:28 onwards it should be millivolt. There is one more problem: In order to undervolt I need a GPU! Amazon cancelled my order - I wonder if any RTX 3060ti or 3070 will be sold in 2021 for close to RSP! 😓
My bad! I feel you, it's really tough. Since mining is so profitable right now it's pretty much impossible to get a hold of a GPU which sucks for us into machine learning & gamers
this is the best video on UA-cam yet. Was sweating because my 3060ti was rocking 82c in benchmark at 4167 score, after a little tinkering its down to 67c 4005 score
Thanks to your step-by-step guide, I finally dared to try to undervolt my RTX 3070 EVGA XC3 (black lips), currently at 800 mV at 1860 Mhz boost speed, 9-10 degrees cooler, so, most importantly, much less louder even without using a quiet fan profile !!! Thank you again. Btw. should I try going lower or just be happy with where I got?
Hows 3070 for deep learning, is it sufficient or 3080 is only choice
@@RC-qi6hs if you CAN get a 3080 there’s no point in not getting it
@@Badnametag thanks im going for 3080
EvGa RTX 2080 XC owner here:( mind you this card default 1800mhz, but always run at least 1900 when benchmarking or gaming so i keep the value just like the video advice)
1915mhz, undervolt .875
Crash at 850.
Temperature while benchmark is 76 before and 64 after.
Temperature while playing overwatch is 78 before and 63 after.
Temperature when testing crysis all max setting is 83 before and 66 after.
Fan curve matching number +5 skip one for example :50rpm-50c, 65 rpm -60c, 75rpm-70c, 90rpm - 80c
Fan noise and room heat was reduce significantly. Didn’t sweat anymore after gaming session and didnt feel hot air from the exhault at all.
Hope its help. In conclusion dropped around 12-15 degree. Best decision ever for my gaming rig. Didn’t experience stutter and lag anymore due to heat after long play neither. Rgb light (base on temperature) have not switched to red color (hot) since undervolting. Remained calm blue.
I've not understand why you reduced the clock of 250 mhz, is it a random number or not?
it automatically undervolts the card
Returning here 2 years after I first saw the video, I realised just now how much I have learnt. I am so grateful for your channel, everytNice tutorialng
Thank you sooo muchhhhh :))))
I like to thank you. This is the best video I've seen with overclocking and underclocking
Imagine running above 60°C whilst running max settings + Ray Tracing on your RTX3070.
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Put my 3070ti i7 11700 to 825 v and worked . Didn't try less
Gpu Temp went from 73 degrees to 64 .
Thank you so much !🤩
I had a completely stable under volt at 1950 MHz on core but Msi afterburner updated and fucked my shit up 💀
Thank you for this clear and easy to understand explanation video, I watched a specific video on a "simple trick" to get better performance out of my exact card and I had absolutely no idea WHY I was undervolting, just that it would bring my GPU temps down and hence reduce the horrendous aggressive fan noise, after watching your video I feel like I've gained so much more information, brilliant exactly what I was looking for, thank you
"Ur gpu never gonna run on that microvolt" said he while he pointed at 1200 mv, the exact number my gpu is running at
You're lying
@@kaarelk274 gtx 770 2gb windforce OC, and its running exactly on 1200 mv.
@@anonimous3158 Oh yeah just checked it out, it's common for gtx 770. Looks like it's the only card
I appreciate your hard work dude , you probably would've worked day and night to produce this masterpiece
I was able to get my RTX 2070 Max-Q to do 1500mhz at .700mv so an overclock and undervolt :)
very bad way to do under volt , you capping the performance of you gpu there better way to do this
@@smb2267 in my country malaysia the ambient temp is already 30c easily, i had to downclock my gtx 1070 rog scar to 700-800mv voltage @1450MHZ core speed, just to maintain slightly below 90c, the temp is very bad even at 1400MHZ range i get high 80c in AAA games, while american youtubers can use the GTX 1070 turbo boost clock of 1600MHZ and still hit below 80c
My rtx 2060 was running about 80 degrees, which is normal, but the fans sounded like a jet engine. This has brought the temp down to the mid 70s so it is much quieter! Thanks!!
Hello! Can i ask what's your pc specifications?
Not only you maintain almost the same performance at a lower temp, but also lower you power consumption. Great explanation.
I'd like to take a brief moment to explain what is actually happening physically when you perform this activity.
Thermal energy emitted in an electric circuit, measured in watts, is produced by voltage multiplied by current. P = I*V (Watt's Law, where P is Power, I is current in amps, and V is voltage in Volts. Remember, Power is HEAT here. So Watts are HEAT. Temperature is thus how much HEAT is stuck on your card overall.)
In the process of a transistor (electronic switch) flipping from an off to an on state, or vice-versa, you have three states. High-current, no-voltage at the switch; high-voltage, no-current at the switch; and medium-voltage, medium-current at the switch. Suffice to say when the switch is in either of the end states, high current or high voltage, the opposing value is zero, so the total of the equation is zero.
That is to say, using simplified numbers, high voltage times no current is no watts. 10 * 0 = 0
No voltage times high current is also no watts. 0 * 10 = 0
However, as the switch 'switches', as they do every single clock cycle, current and voltage must cross over, twice. In this middle state, you could say that you have half-voltage, and half-current. At which point, actual values matter. In this case, 5 * 5 = 25 watts. With this happening twice a clock cycle, you get 50 watts of power, or heat, dumped into the hardware of the switch.
If you're beginning to see how this pertains to voltage and frequency, you're instincts serve you well. The faster your clock speed (frequency), the more times the switch crosses that middle state for a given amount of time (usually seconds). Which means more heat per given amount of time.
Likewise, the more your driving voltage is, the more the value of that middle state jumps up as you multiply values together.
Heat will rise in a linear fashion with the clock cycles, but exponentially with voltage since voltage ALSO drives current (Ohm's Law, or I = V/r).
At the end of putting this together, the overall calculation of your heat looks something like this: '2X(V*I) = P ' OR Voltage times current, times Clock Cycles (X in this example) times two.
What undervolting is doing to achieve your thermal reduction, is slowly dropping the voltage as far down as you can, while still being able to fire off the transistors inside the processor. Or rather, trying to find the 'knee voltage' that turns the switches ON. Depending on what the transistors are made of, that can be a value like 0.7 volts... Ideally. But the caveats that make this a bit of a guess-and-check process is that no transistor is perfect, and you have LOTS of them packed into your GPU. Thus, you're trying to find the point where you're feeding enough voltage so that the average '100 percent this transistor will operate correctly all the time' across ALL the transistors is firmly above minimum, while cutting out the excess voltage and thus, current, and ultimately, heat generated. In short, you're tuning your GPU to be as efficient as possible.
Undervolting the GPU will not harm it. Damage is caused by heat. Heat burns conductor channels and breaks down their conductivity. Undervolting causes GPU crashes because transistors refuse to 'turn on' if you're voltage is too low, and thus the processor cannot operate. All it takes is one transistor somewhere in the thousands (yes, I said thousands, if not millions depending on the generation of processor) to not fire for the whole processor to malfunction and fail.
If you kept up with this explanation, now you know why microprocessors produce huge amounts of heat at 5 GHz.
This is the best video on undervolting out there. You made it easier to understand than other people, including jayztwocents and Linus
Is this method recommended for laptops? my temperature runs up to around 80-87 degrees Celsius!
This is specially recommended for laptops, because they run very hot. Try undervolting both, cpu and gpu, generally the cpu is the one running hotter(specially intel ones) since it clocks up to 5Ghz compared to 2Ghz for gpus, thst creates much more heat and since both are very close one another on a laptop, undervolting both will bring temperatures from both down not just because of undervolting, but because they will send each other less heat, specially if they share heat pipes.
Thank you. My temparature went down from 84 to 71 celsius with no noticable differencw in FPS. Amazing work! 😍❤
Somehow it worked while I was testing my game on windowed mode and as i dropped the volts temps dropped.
But whenever I put the game on fullscreen temps seem to rise back up again? To 86 C
I notoced the same thing on mine
Late reply here. But when you go full screen the GPU has to render pixels for the entire monitor area now. Hence it takes up quite a load compared to when you use windowed mode wherein just the windowed area has to be rendered depending on what game or software you are using.
this method is very helpful and useful for people who have mid-high end GPUs with old CPUs to avoid bottlenecks