Boost Clock And Yet Save Power?

The environmentally-conscious gamer might be concerned about GPU Boost increasing power consumption. Well, it will increase power consumption when you run 3D applications because it will try to overclock the graphics card's clock speeds as long as there's some power headroom. However, it is possible to have your cake and eat it too, thanks to the ability to set a frame rate target!

The overclocking utility will include the option to set a frame rate target. You can set it to any number you like, e.g. 30 fps, 43 fps, 58 fps, 60 fps, etc. Once you set a frame rate target, GPU Boost will limit the amount of overclocking it needs to achieve the frame rate target. The frame rate may drop lower than the target but it will never exceed the frame rate target.

This is a very neat feature because it allows you to benefit from GPU Boost for more complex scenes and yet not waste power on higher than necessary frame rates when the scenes are far less complex. All users should set a frame rate target while playing games, and only disable it before running benchmarks.

How Does GPU Boost Compare With Turbo Boost?

Of course, NVIDIA GPU Boost cannot be directly compared with Intel Turbo Boost as one deals with the dynamic overclocking of a GPU, while the other overclocks a CPU. Still, it is not uncommon to see people label GPU Boost as the GPU version of Turbo Boost. Let's see how true that is :

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