The amount of carbon this has undoubtedly put into our atmosphere is really my main concern. Yes I know you can do hacky workarounds to fix this, but how many of their consumers did this? Roughly none. What a waste of our planets resources.
I also had the same issue. I could get 7-10 on dual monitor but 3 monitors never went below 100w.
I changed to a 4090 and my idle is 25-30w with 3 monitors.
Like others say nvidia has same issues with 3000 series. The Nvidia placebo is real.
BS.
Mine idles at 7w with two monitors. The trick for me was enabling Free sync on both of them.
MIne does 5w idle with 3x 1080p monitors.
The trick was to reduce the 165 Hz to 60 Hz…
That’s not a good ‘solution’ - what if someone wants to game on 120 hz variable refresh rate?
What triggers this high usage?
I use a 3440 x 1440p LCD screen at 165hz
Asrock Phantom Gaming OC 7900xtx
Idle power draw ranges between 10-30W
I don’t get the high usage you mentioned
I think it’s when you use 2 monitors witha dif refresh rate and/or resolution
I’ve got the triple threat, 3 monitors at different resolutions and refresh rates. 1440p 144hz, 3440x1440p 165hz, 4k 120hz. Idle power draw is 120w. The fan doesn’t shut off unless ambient temp falls below 72f/~22c.
Did you try the latest AMD driver and using free sync?
I believe it occurs most commonly with dual monitor setups
Because a dual monitor setup is pretty common… it sounds like any setup that is more than 1 monitor - when at least one or more monitors are more than 60 hz - then it happens? I dunno if resolution impacts anything - if they have more than one monitor, these days, it seems that at least one is higher than 1080p.