question about 3080 ti idle voltage

Hi guys,

So recently i got a 3080 ti and updated to the latest version of afterburner and for whatever reason, my idle voltage seems to be set at 762 mv by default and won't allow me to set it any lower than that, there is also a vertical dotted line(white not yellow) that acts as a lower limit wall, which wasn't there before in the previous version of afterburner. I found all this a little weird as my previous 1080 Ti had a much lower idle voltage and no low-end limit but i shrugged this off as a new 3000 series gimmick and never gave it too much thought, until a few days ago when i was watching an undervolt tutorial and the guy had no vertical dotted line and a lower idle voltage than mine... Is there any way to remove the dreaded dotted line that acts a limiter and why is it there in the first place?

 

turn on "unlock voltage control" and try a different skin.

You don't want to be go too low with the undervolting anyway, majority of people who do it are only making their cards unstable down the track when drivers and games are more intensive.

 

Thanks for your reply, this seems to be present in every skin and also seems to fluctuate between 750 mv and 768 mv, which makes it even weirder because even the scale's minimum of 700 mv should be enough for a boost bin of at least 1500 mhz...

 

I have the EVGA FTW3 3080Ti, the EVGA PX1 software will supposedly allow me to set voltages as low as 500mV, but no matter what I do with those settings or the clocks or the vram settings, the core voltage never ever actually drops below 750mV (as measured by afterburner).

In my "low power profile" the voltage stays at 750mV because I have the core clock limited to 1500MHz and the power limit very much reduced. Saves so much electricity (i.e. money) when I'm just watching video.

My other profiles are standard clocks with a mild undervolt used for most games, and a max OC profile with the maximum clocks that are stable and a mild overvolt (relative to stock voltages) used for more demanding games and benchmarking.