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Aurornistoday at 3:22 PM1 replyview on HN

Server cards are not optimized for idle power usage. They’re expected to be fully utilized.

For server gear it’s more common to have less dynamic power and voltage switching because it produces more predictable performance and latency.


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cmovqtoday at 3:54 PM

For GeForce cards you can get similar behavior by setting “Prefer maximum performance” which disables some of the low power states.