Show Nvidia Power Usage in Watts?

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  1. gran172

    gran172 Member

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    Hey, I've noticed when you enable the "Power" OSD in Nvidia cards you get a % of the TDP instead of the actual wattage, is there any way to make it show actual wattage? Thanks in advance :)
     
  2. Xtreme1979

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    You can use HWiNFO64 OSD (RTSS) to display power in watts in conjunction with MSI Afterburner.
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    It will then show like the below image on screen:
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    I'll try that but HWInfo has been giving me some issues :/ Is there any way to position it in the "GPU" line next to Afterburner's stats? Positioning won't let me put it there for some reason.
     
  4. Unwinder

    Unwinder Ancient Guru Staff Member

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    There is no direct monitoring in wattage provided by NVIDIA driver, any software displaying that is simply multiplying % by TDP limit taken from BIOS. You can achieve the same with correction formulas.
     

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    I'm not sure I understand, how exactly do I that? Sorry to trouble you, I'm kinda dumb with this stuff haha.
     
  6. Andy_K

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    If you got a RTX 2070 it should have a TDP of 175W which is 100%.
    To get intermediate values the formula should be x*175/100 or x*1.75:
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    Hey @Andy_K thanks for the help, I've tried that with my 1060 (x*1.2) unfortunately the number that Afterburner ends up showing doesn't fall in line with HWInfo, GPU-Z or other softwares that monitor power usage in watts :/ https://imgur.com/a/pJVpJsa
     
  8. Unwinder

    Unwinder Ancient Guru Staff Member

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    Learn to do it properly, use search and read about differences between total GPU power and total _normalized_ gpu power
     
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    Thanks Unwinder, will do, have a nice day :)
     

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